nobody bats an eye unless it's a cat/dog/rabbit etc tbh. Kinda sad.Yeah.... wtf indeed.
This news and the news that the Gippsland farmer who poisoned 403 birds got a pitiful 14 days in prison and a $2500 fine.
I’m really starting to hate people.
Yeah.... wtf indeed.
This news and the news that the Gippsland farmer who poisoned 403 birds got a pitiful 14 days in prison and a $2500 fine.
I’m really starting to hate people.
The guy charged turned himself in and alerted the authorities to his stashes of kills because he’d had a fight with his employer and wanted to get him into trouble. The judge also stated that he would have given him 3 months jail had he not plead guilty. It’s 403 ****ing birds! Not just one or two, but 403. And to top it off, he said he’d poisoned them with a number of things, some of which caused a slow and painful death.There is a difference between people killing pests because the government cannot manage wildlife and people being intentionally cruel. If you do not manage pest species or allow people to do it legally they will do it themselves, which often results in very bad outcomes from every perspective.
Most farmers aim to make money, killing pests will increase their profit much more than such a small punishment. Australia is probably the worst civilized country when it comes to wildlife management. Watching the last 'Australia' day add for lamb is good enough reason to never buy it, the fact the industry kills heaps of wedgies is just another one.
This just makes me sad. As a species, we are disgusting.This **** happens a lot more than people realise generally ****ry folk despise Roos and treat them like vermin. I had a mate who had a girl friend from a large property outside Dubbo. He told me every year groups of blokes come out from western Sydney camping payed his girlfriends father and they would round up Roos in one of his paddocks and do brutal things to them while killing them. Naturally I told him I wasn't impressed it just comes down to the fact that Australia is full of f#### heads who don't respect our laws or environment and they claim this country as their own
If the fine was hefty enough, they’d most certainly feel remorseful... if only for their losses.The problem is any imposed penalty doesn't make someone feel remorse for what they've done... a conscience does and a basic understanding of what they've done and the resulting consequences... removing 400 wedgies from the environment is massive and the flow on affect of that will be obvious in a relatively short time. If the perpetrator genuinely feels and believes 110% that they did the right thing By their livelihood then no prison time or financial fine will make them feel bad about killing 400+ raptors. Unfortunately a farming mindset allows little room for a conservative outlook.
They'd just be annoyed they got caught, not feel bad for what they did and aim not to get caught next time.If the fine was hefty enough, they’d most certainly feel remorseful... if only for their losses.
If the fine was hefty enough, they’d most certainly feel remorseful... if only for their losses.
This was in the Gold Coast Bulletin yesterday and refers to the farmer, I did not know the 400+ birds were Wedgetail Eagles. He should be chained to a post in an aviary of starving eagles.Yeah.... wtf indeed.
This news and the news that the Gippsland farmer who poisoned 403 birds got a pitiful 14 days in prison and a $2500 fine.
I’m really starting to hate people.
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