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Threatened species or extinct industries? : Comments

By Mark Poynter, published 3/4/2017

The Leadbeater’s Possum case suggests the need for an urgent overhaul of the protocols and practices governing the management of threatened species.

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Barnaby Joyce seems to have a grudge against cute critters, first Pistol & Boo now Leadbeater possums. The forestry industry could save itself all this grief by moving to 100% plantation timber, say on converted dairy farms. If a rare critter moved in there would be living memory of how to prepare that habitat and the critters could be relocated.

The second problem is that I thought high conservation value forest was supposed to be protected as a carbon sink as well as for biodiversity. In terms of hypocrisy over climate promises it ranks as Adani-lite.
Posted by Taswegian, Monday, 3 April 2017 3:01:50 PM
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Not much honesty from either side of this debate. Sense went out the window with the Japanese wood chip exports from the 70's. That was the catalyst for clear felling of Southern forests.
It represents such narrow and blinkered thinking selling our unique hardwoods overseas, when nothing short of vandalism is the necessary Ingredient to achieve it.
I'm on the side of environmentalists with this...
Posted by diver dan, Monday, 3 April 2017 4:20:12 PM
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Good Idea Taswegian! The Forest Industry has established heaps of plantations on abandoned dairy farms in the Strzeleckis. They've been invaded by koalas and now you and your silly green mates are trying to use the koalas to shut down plantation forestry.
Posted by Little, Monday, 3 April 2017 5:33:17 PM
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I take it the plantation is native gums. The koalas are hungry. That shows the decline of natural habitat. The idea of plantation planting is far behind what has been destroyed. So who are you blaming yourself or the kolas for being hungry.
Posted by doog, Monday, 3 April 2017 8:19:14 PM
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Where did all the hungry koalas come from? There are more koalas now than there ever were before European settlement, because there are more dense young forests and sick old trees (top tucker for koalas and psyllids and beetles and stick insects and mistletoes and cherries and phytophthora and armillaria and anything else that lives on eucalypts), because of lack of frequent mild fire. Koalas were rare in healthy forests, now they're a pest.
Posted by Little, Monday, 3 April 2017 8:43:26 PM
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Mistletoe toe,s and cherries. I think you are talking about mistletoe toe and snotty gobble.

There has been a rise in the mistletoe bird spreading his food supply around. Snotty gobble has declined in the last thirty years, depending on the degree of climate changes.

Are you saying the kolas have bred up locally and not migrated from other areas.
Ask the minister involved for a licence for a cull of so many koalas, very viable on world markets as fur.
Posted by doog, Monday, 3 April 2017 9:03:01 PM
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