I had an interesting - if very short - conversation on the bike ride home
last night.
I was coming up the path from the Fairfield pipe bridge over the Yarra
(Melbourne), which passes through a bit of bush. Ahead of me I saw a woman
emerge from the bush, carrying a wire crate. I caught her just as she was
loading the empty possum trap into a van, with with the name of a landscape
design and construction company written in large letters on the side. I
asked her "was that a possum you just released?" She paused for a moment,
looked me up and down and said, "maybe".
Without anything else I could do, I said "good answer" and rode off.
According to the Department of Sustainability and Environment, here in
Victoria, "Possums may be trapped, but only to remove them from the roof.
They must be released on the same property within 50 metres of the capture
site. Licensed wildlife controllers are also authorised to trap possums,
(see Yellow Pages under pest control) but they will not relocate them to
another site."
I have a possum trap and have caught possums inside my house, and have
released them at my front door. Where we were, there are no houses within at
least 400 metres.
What can be done about this? I know that what I saw cannot be taken as
evidence in anything, it's simply my word against hers.
I wrote down the name of the company as she drove off.
Bill
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