The Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture is a joint venture between the University of Tasmania and the Tasmanian Government.

Obviously a "greenie" organisation Jayb

How does the saying go Jayb "There is none so blind as the DUMB IGNORANT!

You make a worthy back up for is Mise, and his every faithful sidekick Hasbeen.

Paul1405: How does the saying go Jayb "There is none so blind as the DUMB IGNORANT!

You are so right Paul. Those Greenies get so zonked out on Wacky Weed & their Sacred Chrystal Meth they wouldn't know what day it was.

Paul,

The report is full of "what ifs".
Now why haven't we heard the Greens complaining about the culling on King Island?

Bye the way, how dose the wallaby population on King Island increase if shooting them is ineffective, swimmers?
It was the lack of shooting to keep their numbers down that led to the present overpopulation.

Wrong again Is Mise

"It was the lack of shooting to keep their numbers down that led to the present overpopulation."

It is the agricultural practices which has led to the present overpopulation of Wallabies on King Island.

Shooting has been shown time and time again to be ineffective in controlling animal populations whilst every conditions are right for their abundant breeding.

From the report;

"A positive relationship was demonstrated between the relative abundance of Bennett’s Wallaby and pasture loss to wildlife browsing. Measured pasture loss was around 50% of pasture production, on average, at unfenced sites. Shooting wallabies typically had no medium term effect on reducing animal numbers at unfenced sites, and hence typically may have no practical benefit at these sites in terms of reducing pasture loss to wildlife."

It was clearly demonstrated that an ad hoc indiscriminate shooting policy on King Island had no long term effect on the wallaby population.

Is Mise, you and likes of the Shooter and hooters Party, Hasbeen and Jayb think that the answer to everything lies at the point of a gun! You have been wrong in the past, and you will always be wrong on that score in the future.

Where is your evidence to support your outrageously ridiculous claims?

Paul405: It is the agricultural practices which has led to the present overpopulation of Wallabies on King Island.

You are right Paul. Dingo's are their natural predator. So, I suggest that Dingo be introduced to the Island to rip the throats out of the young wallabies. See, a green solution.

Jayb, just as lions rip the throats out of wildebeest, and if as you suggest dingo's are the natural predator of wallabies, if that is the expert answer to the problem, which I doubt it is, then who am I or the Greens to argue with that. If throat ripping of wallabies by dingo's offends your sensibilities then there is not much I or the Greens can do about it.