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 Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 5:44 pm
I am personally sick of wildlife 'culls'. killing many animals of a particular species because humans have decided it's for the best.
Wildlife does not need controlling. Nature has things well in balance until we interfere.
For example the planned badger cull in England. I have been campaigning against this for several reasons:
It is cruel, orphaned cubs will be left to starve,
Badgers are a protected species,
Badgers are not responsible for spreading the disease bTB to cattle. It is inhumane farming conditons, flawed testing and long distance transport of cows to slaughter that is spreading the disease. Farmers have simply blamed the badgers to avoid having to clean up their farming practices.
If anyone is interested we have only until March 10th to persuade the UK Govenment not to wipe out large populations of badgers. Please go to this website and fill in the online form to register you disagreement with the planned cull:
www.stopthecull.info
I have also heard of squirrel, rat, fox and duck culls in this country. We are so arogant to think that we need to be in control over nature.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 9:19 pm
I signed. i';m so sick of humans always resorting to killing animals to solve problems that are 100% there fault. When will humans take responsibility for there own actions?
Its the same thing with the Harper seals here in Canada. this year very soon 300.000 plus Seals are scheduled to be killed! plus the parents that die of grief, thats another 20.000 minimum!
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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 12:17 am
Well, if the species is native and the habitat undamaged (healthy population of both predators and food), it will be controlled in its own natural way. But of course, with invading species and literally countless other issues humans carry wherever they go, it's a bit...shall we say...difficult for the species to maintain a healthy population. And if the species ISN'T native, then...well, it should never have gotten there anyways. But of course, that's complaining about past events, not doing what we need to do NOW to help our Earth. I suppose culls are the only way to "control" alien species' populations. Obviously it would be impossible to root them all out and take them to their native habitats.
Though I do agree that humans never should have wrought these problems in the first place, they did. So now we have to deal with it. Sadly, the best way to do that is, depending on the situation, to use culls. cry
But I STRONGLY object the Canadian Seal Hunt. I have the lil brochure-type-thing (forgot what it's called) in my wallet at all times. I tell everyone about it. Not only is it cruel to kill off THAT MANY seals, it's also not neccesary (sp?). Even if it is neccesary to kill off some seals so that Canada can keep up its seafood industry, they could at least do it more humanely! scream
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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 8:54 am
rikuHEART Well, if the species is native and the habitat undamaged (healthy population of both predators and food), it will be controlled in its own natural way. But of course, with invading species and literally countless other issues humans carry wherever they go, it's a bit...shall we say...difficult for the species to maintain a healthy population. And if the species ISN'T native, then...well, it should never have gotten there anyways. But of course, that's complaining about past events, not doing what we need to do NOW to help our Earth. I suppose culls are the only way to "control" alien species' populations. Obviously it would be impossible to root them all out and take them to their native habitats.
Though I do agree that humans never should have wrought these problems in the first place, they did. So now we have to deal with it. Sadly, the best way to do that is, depending on the situation, to use culls. cry
But I STRONGLY object the Canadian Seal Hunt. I have the lil brochure-type-thing (forgot what it's called) in my wallet at all times. I tell everyone about it. Not only is it cruel to kill off THAT MANY seals, it's also not neccesary (sp?). Even if it is neccesary to kill off some seals so that Canada can keep up its seafood industry, they could at least do it more humanely! scream We don't need to eat seafood - the seals can't live without eating fish. The Canadian fishermen have got it all wrong when they say the seals are taking our food, it is more a question of us stealing their food. As for the badgers - they are a native species. Infact, they are one of the lagest native mammels still living in the UK. The wolves, bears and wild boars have already been wiped out (hopefully the wild boars are making a comeback in some places)
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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 6:40 pm
oak_tree_pixie rikuHEART Well, if the species is native and the habitat undamaged (healthy population of both predators and food), it will be controlled in its own natural way. But of course, with invading species and literally countless other issues humans carry wherever they go, it's a bit...shall we say...difficult for the species to maintain a healthy population. And if the species ISN'T native, then...well, it should never have gotten there anyways. But of course, that's complaining about past events, not doing what we need to do NOW to help our Earth. I suppose culls are the only way to "control" alien species' populations. Obviously it would be impossible to root them all out and take them to their native habitats.
Though I do agree that humans never should have wrought these problems in the first place, they did. So now we have to deal with it. Sadly, the best way to do that is, depending on the situation, to use culls. cry
But I STRONGLY object the Canadian Seal Hunt. I have the lil brochure-type-thing (forgot what it's called) in my wallet at all times. I tell everyone about it. Not only is it cruel to kill off THAT MANY seals, it's also not neccesary (sp?). Even if it is neccesary to kill off some seals so that Canada can keep up its seafood industry, they could at least do it more humanely! scream We don't need to eat seafood - the seals can't live without eating fish. The Canadian fishermen have got it all wrong when they say the seals are taking our food, it is more a question of us stealing their food. As for the badgers - they are a native species. Infact, they are one of the lagest native mammels still living in the UK. The wolves, bears and wild boars have already been wiped out (hopefully the wild boars are making a comeback in some places)
Well, since its predators have been pretty much wiped out, how are they going to keep down their population naturally?
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 12:01 pm
rikuHEART oak_tree_pixie rikuHEART Well, if the species is native and the habitat undamaged (healthy population of both predators and food), it will be controlled in its own natural way. But of course, with invading species and literally countless other issues humans carry wherever they go, it's a bit...shall we say...difficult for the species to maintain a healthy population. And if the species ISN'T native, then...well, it should never have gotten there anyways. But of course, that's complaining about past events, not doing what we need to do NOW to help our Earth. I suppose culls are the only way to "control" alien species' populations. Obviously it would be impossible to root them all out and take them to their native habitats.
Though I do agree that humans never should have wrought these problems in the first place, they did. So now we have to deal with it. Sadly, the best way to do that is, depending on the situation, to use culls. cry
But I STRONGLY object the Canadian Seal Hunt. I have the lil brochure-type-thing (forgot what it's called) in my wallet at all times. I tell everyone about it. Not only is it cruel to kill off THAT MANY seals, it's also not neccesary (sp?). Even if it is neccesary to kill off some seals so that Canada can keep up its seafood industry, they could at least do it more humanely! scream We don't need to eat seafood - the seals can't live without eating fish. The Canadian fishermen have got it all wrong when they say the seals are taking our food, it is more a question of us stealing their food. As for the badgers - they are a native species. Infact, they are one of the lagest native mammels still living in the UK. The wolves, bears and wild boars have already been wiped out (hopefully the wild boars are making a comeback in some places)
Well, since its predators have been pretty much wiped out, how are they going to keep down their population naturally?Badger populations will control themselves naturally depending on the availibility of their food source (mainly worms). It isn't really an issue of there being too many - it is more an issue that the farmers believe that badgers spread the disease bTB to their cattle. They want to see all the badgers wiped out in areas where there are diseased herds of cattle not just numbers reduced. Lots of people are opposing it though smile
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 6:11 pm
oak_tree_pixie rikuHEART oak_tree_pixie rikuHEART Well, if the species is native and the habitat undamaged (healthy population of both predators and food), it will be controlled in its own natural way. But of course, with invading species and literally countless other issues humans carry wherever they go, it's a bit...shall we say...difficult for the species to maintain a healthy population. And if the species ISN'T native, then...well, it should never have gotten there anyways. But of course, that's complaining about past events, not doing what we need to do NOW to help our Earth. I suppose culls are the only way to "control" alien species' populations. Obviously it would be impossible to root them all out and take them to their native habitats.
Though I do agree that humans never should have wrought these problems in the first place, they did. So now we have to deal with it. Sadly, the best way to do that is, depending on the situation, to use culls. cry
But I STRONGLY object the Canadian Seal Hunt. I have the lil brochure-type-thing (forgot what it's called) in my wallet at all times. I tell everyone about it. Not only is it cruel to kill off THAT MANY seals, it's also not neccesary (sp?). Even if it is neccesary to kill off some seals so that Canada can keep up its seafood industry, they could at least do it more humanely! scream We don't need to eat seafood - the seals can't live without eating fish. The Canadian fishermen have got it all wrong when they say the seals are taking our food, it is more a question of us stealing their food. As for the badgers - they are a native species. Infact, they are one of the lagest native mammels still living in the UK. The wolves, bears and wild boars have already been wiped out (hopefully the wild boars are making a comeback in some places)
Well, since its predators have been pretty much wiped out, how are they going to keep down their population naturally?Badger populations will control themselves naturally depending on the availibility of their food source (mainly worms). It isn't really an issue of there being too many - it is more an issue that the farmers believe that badgers spread the disease bTB to their cattle. They want to see all the badgers wiped out in areas where there are diseased herds of cattle not just numbers reduced. Lots of people are opposing it though smile
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 2:08 pm
There are coyote and deer culls over here in Massachusetts because they are blamed for lyme disease from deer ticks and coyote attacks (we destroyed their habitat and moved into it, what do you expect them to do? Say "Okay have my home, I'll just die here") and because they are starting to roam neighborhoods (once again because their homes have been destroyed).
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 2:10 pm
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:06 pm
I think we should barge into Bush's house (after he's moved back into it), tear down everything, and take it all with us for US to use. Then we make sure all the markets and whatnot won't allow him to buy anything. That way maybe he'll get a taste of what the wildlife he destroys goes through.
rofl
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:08 pm
rikuHEART I think we should barge into Bush's house (after he's moved back into it), tear down everything, and take it all with us for US to use. Then we make sure all the markets and whatnot won't allow him to buy anything. That way maybe he'll get a taste of what the wildlife he destroys goes through.
rofl We could also do that with all of the other anti-environment people. ^_^
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:12 pm
Devin K. Truessence rikuHEART I think we should barge into Bush's house (after he's moved back into it), tear down everything, and take it all with us for US to use. Then we make sure all the markets and whatnot won't allow him to buy anything. That way maybe he'll get a taste of what the wildlife he destroys goes through.
rofl We could also do that with all of the other anti-environment people. ^_^ Sounds like a poetic justice to me - let the punishment fit the crime etc.
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:57 pm
oak_tree_pixie Devin K. Truessence rikuHEART I think we should barge into Bush's house (after he's moved back into it), tear down everything, and take it all with us for US to use. Then we make sure all the markets and whatnot won't allow him to buy anything. That way maybe he'll get a taste of what the wildlife he destroys goes through.
rofl We could also do that with all of the other anti-environment people. ^_^ Sounds like a poetic justice to me - let the punishment fit the crime etc.
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Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:10 pm
oak_tree_pixie Devin K. Truessence rikuHEART I think we should barge into Bush's house (after he's moved back into it), tear down everything, and take it all with us for US to use. Then we make sure all the markets and whatnot won't allow him to buy anything. That way maybe he'll get a taste of what the wildlife he destroys goes through.
rofl We could also do that with all of the other anti-environment people. ^_^ Sounds like a poetic justice to me - let the punishment fit the crime etc. I'm so glad you just said "poetic justice". That made me squee. lol
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