Is it likely that a landscaping company would see possum removal as one of
their functions? If so then this is likely to have been one of many releases,
and therefore should be of interest to the appropriate authorities.
I would start by contacting the local ranger, and I'd would hope a phone call
from them might have the company rethinking their strategy even if it can't be
enforced. I wonder if they could force them to reveal who the client was.
Did you get the number plate, Bill?
Peter Shute
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [birding-aus-
> On Behalf Of Carl Clifford
>Sent: Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:01 AM
>To: Bill Stent
>Cc: <>
>Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Possum trapping and releasing
>
>Bill,
>
>Not much you can do. You could report it to the relevant authority, and
>they may decide to run with it. I don't think a Magistrate would give it
>much court time though, as they would be unlikely to regard releasing a
>possum into the bush much more harmful than releasing it in a back yard.
>At least the apparent possum was apparently released and not taken cage
>swimming.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Carl Clifford
>
>On 04/09/2012, at 5:52 AM, Bill Stent <> wrote:
>
>> 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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