Is Mise.

How do I do it? Easy.

The theory goes one step further. With animal rights, human life may be flexibly valued upwards but usually downwards.

The example is the tension between surfers wishing for Government protection from shark attacks, and animal rights activists regularly delegating the value that a shark is towards the environment in which it lives, and the dismissive value of one surfer eaten in the process of protecting sharks.

With the live sheep export controversy currently raging (again), the value of the people eating sheep meat, is usurped by the comfort of the animal during transport.

This is the new order in the continually evolving Western Democracies.

I reckon those horses have been there long enough to have made any changes they are going to. Keeping the numbers down by contraceptive methods would not hurt, but the horses should stay now.

I refuse to call it damage, as I don't accept that any eco system is perfection, & should be frozen in time. In fact we need to do a hell of a lot more burning of this country to even freeze it now, or as at white settlement.

I have actually explored a couple of off shore islands that are known not to have had a fire in over 2 hundred years, & probably thousands. I have not seen any country like them ever.

Running cattle through the highlands in summer was better for the native wild life, than leaving it to thicken, unburnt for decades.

I am sceptical of what might motivate our resident gunnie to be banging on about Brumby culling. Not known for any concern for the well being of the environment, its more likely the irresistible opportunity to take part in horse killing is the driving force behind the new found environmental concern.
Issy, are the Two Bobs from the Shooters and Hooters Party missing in action on this? What do we pay them for, are they off at the annual Dodo cull on the island of Mauritius. or some such nonsense.

There are roughly 70 Australian mammals and many other species on the edge of extinction due to habitat destruction and predation by alien species from camels, horses, buffalo, foxes, cats, rabbits, cane toads etc.

That the greens both oppose culling alien species and supposedly support the protection of the environment exposes how they lack the balls to take the hard decisions.

SM

What it proves actually, there is no progress to be made with radical politics in any Western Democracy. The Greens have become a suck-along Party for the wealthy.
It will die a death.
Anything it seems, iutside the welfare of a koala bear and a homosexual is not worth their effort.
Does that sound cynical? I hope so.

Paul,

I, like most hunters, am a conservationist and the Sporting Shooters Asociation (of which I'm a long term member) has done more for real conservation than the Greens have ever done.
I continue to kill foxes as a conservation measure and for the enjoyment that I get out of whacking them at long range with one shot kills.
.220 Swift in a No1 Ruger (single shot) rifle, 60 grain soft point bullet at around 3,600 ft/s muzzle velocity and some 1,700 ft/lb of energy (hand loads). Variable power optical sight, (6x12).

I started this post to shew the utter hypocrisy of the Greens in mouthing off about conservation and then defending feral animals that are doing real damage.

You seem to be fixated on guns and killing; repressed desires?