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14-Aug-04, 10:49 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-03 Location: In the ironically named sunshine coast, surrounded by nerds and nurses | | | | There are differences, but it really comes down to how finely you think the hair should be split, much the same way as you can get people selling brissie coastals and cairns coastals.
I do know that there is currently a program to breed and release MD as part of the bounceback project and the breeder animals were selected from either a known lineage or because they had SA characteristics. |
14-Aug-04, 10:59 AM
|  | Sdaji Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-04 Location: Victoria | | | They're releasing animals of unknown origin?!?!?! 
That's terrible IMO
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14-Aug-04, 11:26 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-03 Location: In the ironically named sunshine coast, surrounded by nerds and nurses | | | | You would have a lot more confidence if you met the people in this project. Currently the MD is locally extinct in many areas of its previous range. There has been a huge effort to remove feral animals and numerous breeding/release projects of various species are being run throughout the state (operation bounceback), the MD project is just one that has been approved by the SA NPWS. Animals of known SA linage are very hard to come by hence the requirement for animals to appear to be from SA. |
14-Aug-04, 11:31 AM
| | Sdaji Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-04 Location: Victoria | | | | Better not to re release than to use unknown stock in my opinion. Known stock isn't impossible to get anyway, it's possible to radio track snakes and then relatively easy to find brooding females, a percentage of those hatchlings could be collected and used. Very much preferable to using something that could have come from QLD!
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14-Aug-04, 11:38 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-03 Location: In the ironically named sunshine coast, surrounded by nerds and nurses | | | | What you say is true if there is a viable local population to start with, in a lot of the MDs SA range there hasn't been sightings in twenty years |
14-Aug-04, 11:43 AM
| | Sdaji Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-04 Location: Victoria | | | | Well the nearest known population is preferable to using unknowns. In my opinion doing nothing is better than using unknowns. If you don't know you're putting back what was naturally there, you might as well keep it in captivity. Anyway, opinions vary, I've stated mine, I'll leave it there.
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14-Aug-04, 12:15 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-03 Location: In the ironically named sunshine coast, surrounded by nerds and nurses | | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Sdaji ... In my opinion doing nothing is better than using unknowns.... | That is a valid opinion though I don't think they are using unknowns. I'll make some enquiries to clarify the selection process and get back to you. | | |
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