Excellent, and I agree entirely.
One comment on the paragraph 'animals subject to shooting
disturbance are likely to become more wary pigs
and some deer species, for example, forage more at
night than during the day and may inhabit more
secure areas within their range or move elsewhere'
<http://www.invasives.org.au/documents/file/fs_rechunt2_NSWvfacts.pdf>.
In the early 1990s feral water buffalo were culled in the Top End as part of
the Brucellosis and Tuberculosis Campaign (BTEC). I wasn't involved in this
program but knew many who were. According to my contacts buffalo began to
feed at night.
They also became very shy compared with the animals I shot when working with
a pet meat firm in the late 1970s. And according to semi-traditional
relatives on outstations they are more dangerous. I'm not sure why this
would be. Perhaps it's that they regard any human as a threat.
Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow
1/7 Songlark Street,
Bakewell, NT 0832
043 8650 835
On 16/2/13 8:26 AM, "Jim Smart" <> wrote:
> Hello Christine,
>
> The relevant legislation can be found here:
>
> http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/nswbills.nsf/0/c8afc0c4709e478b
> ca25788e0005e862/$FILE/b2011-163-d18-House.pdf
>
>
> Also relevant to the shooting of Australian Native birds is:
>
> http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/nswbills.nsf/0/7adf4bd7ff7246e0
> ca257a5a0020e0b1/$FILE/66541722.pdf/b2012-109-d08-House.pdf
>
> The official NPWS position is here:
> http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/pestsweeds/spc.htm
>
> The Shooters agenda can be found on this page:
> http://www.shootersandfishers.org.au/
>
> A very objective scientific analysis of the arguments can be read here:
> http://www.invasives.org.au/documents/file/fs_rechunt2_NSWvfacts.pdf
>
> Political comment can be found here:
> http://davidshoebridge.org.au/2012/06/21/game-and-feral-animal-control-act-leg
> islation-debate/
>
> The current balance of power in the NSW parliament is that the O'Farrell
> government have to have the support of both the Shooters and the
> Christians to get their legislation passed through both houses. The
> Shooters are very clever people and they are using this situation to enact
> the maximum of their agenda through the parliament. Both the Liberals
> and Labor desperately want to sell off the Electricity Generating Power
> Stations
> so the will be in private hands and return nice profits to their owners
> and to the owners of the coal mines supplying them. This also puts
> off any need (in their eyes) to build solar and gas power stations.
> Moral considerations about global climate change do not enter into the
> minds of these people.
>
> The Shooters have successfully sold the idea that using NSW National
> Parks for their blood sport is a good thing. They are selling the idea that
> their shooting will make an impact on the numbers of feral animals in
> our national parks, a concept thoroughly debunked in the fact sheet
> from the Invasive Species Council <http://www.invasives.org.au/> in the
> link above. The Murdock press (News Limited) and the commercial TV
> stations have uncritically
> pushed this line. Wonderfully Orwellian terms such as "Conservation
> Hunting" and "Supplementary Pest Control" are being fed to the public.
> The shooters have no intention of reducing the number of feral animals
> in NSW. In fact everything they want is directed to /increasing/ the
> number of feral animals so as to make their blood sport easier. See, for
> example, the Game Council <http://www.gamecouncil.nsw.gov.au/> web site
> where, at the moment,
> shooting of feral deer is illegal. This is because it is deer breeding
> season and shooting of pregnant deer will reduce the number of deer.
>
> The staff of the National Parks and Wildlife Service are overwhelmingly
> opposed to the idea of letting the shooters into National Parks.
> However the legislation is
> phrased such the the key decisions and day to day control of shooting in
> NSW is in the hands of the NSW Game Council
> <http://www.gamecouncil.nsw.gov.au/>, an organisation run by
> shooters for shooters but funded by we taxpayers.
>
> The list of National Parks in which shooting will be allowed has been
> phrased as all NSW National Parks and Nature Reserves /excep//t/ certain
> ones
> which all happen to be close to Barry O'Farrell's electorate in Sydney.
> In my area, the electorate of the Minister for Environment (including
> National Parks),
> Robyn Parker, all National Parks are on the list to be considered for
> shooting. Some, such as Myall Lakes NP, have no feral animal problem at
> the moment.
> I have no proof but there are persistent stories that the shooters are
> transporting deer etc to new locations so that they will have something
> to kill.
>
> We must have proper regimes for the control and if possible, total
> elimination, of feral animals in our National Parks. This involves well
> understood
> methods including mustering where possible, baiting, trapping and,
> usually lastly, shooting from helicopters. This should be done by
> professionals
> in the National Parks and Wildlife Service.
>
> Most people would consider it ridiculous to let unemployed abattoir
> workers to assist in hospitals to reduce the operations waiting time.
> Similarly
> it would be silly to let graffiti sprayers into Art Galleries to reduce
> the cost of repainting the walls. Letting goons with guns into National
> Parks
> to "control feral pests" is equally silly.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jim Smart
> East Maitland
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 13/02/15 10:22 , Chris Melrose wrote:
>> Hi All
>> Can someone please tell me where the detail about hunting in NPs can be
>> found? Can one read the legislation somewhere? Can we find out the details of
>> the proposals?
>> We visited Gluepot last year just after it had been closed for several days
>> so that aerial baiting and shooting could take place. Surely NSW politicians
>> are not dumb enough to allow parks to be open when shooting takes place.
>> And then somewhere there must be a list of what can and can't be taken. How
>> do I get hold of this information?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Christine
>>
>> Christine Melrose
>> 0407705140
>>
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