Kinda sad watching the video there. I don't even know what to say. I am sure you guys have heard of this before, but they just wrapped the program up and man, that's kind of crazy. And they didn't catch 1 great white, who were the responsible parties. http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/08/world/asia/australia-shark-cull/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Makes sense that they didn't catch any whites... They are very smart. I've had white's right next to the boat a few times and they never took the bait.... It would eat everything we threw in the water not on a hook... I know they can be hooked, but they are much smarter than other sharks. Funny how he said it was a success. Not because it's any safer, but because it give the people more confidence.
i dunno, overkill maybe? funnel-web spiders take human victims there and they don't 'agent orange' the suburbs.
Exactly. Life is dangerous, we're all gonna die. Skeeters, deer, and cows kill more people annually than sharks.
It just seems ridiculous that they killed sharks that were not responsible (not saying they should have killed Whites) But think about that. They lured animals in that had nothing to do with the deaths then killed them. What sense does that make? So every shark that killed someone is still there, but they killed 64 innocent sharks that were just eating fish
Kind of a shame, but 64 sharks killed is a drop in the bucket when it comes to the number being killed worldwide (about 100 million) by finning, mostly for the asian markets. That's why the Australian cull doesn't really concern me very much. There are bigger fish to fry.
And restaurants to burn down. As I'm kind of in the process of career change, albeit a drawn out one, sometimes I feel like the only work I'd actually be proud of/into is boots on the ground Earth liberation type stuff.
bigger fish to fry? this is a textbook knee-jerk revenge slaughter. given that sharks are apex predators & on various "protected" or "endangered" lists, there aren't a whole lot of them to begin w/, so every single one matters. this is a perfect example of politicians' endless need to be seen "doing something", even if there's nothing to be done. like nynj said, all it's done is give people confidence. false confidence maybe, but there it is. the cull is bull**** & ignores all ecological reality.
Every thought of being a conservationist? Part hunter, part protector, and most of all, HUGE responsibility. They've done more good in saving borderline extinct animal species and ecosystems than any other profession. The PETA people will claim to want to save animals....but at the end of the day, if their policies were put into place (no hunting, etc), half of the countries species will be extinct in 100 years (if not sooner). Conservationists really do a ton of good for this place. Responsible for bringing back quite a few species from the brink, that now thrive. Some branches of the park ranger service specialize in it, some private sector. IMO they are more important than anyone out there. Stopping poachers, keeping numbers in equilibrium, slowly building them back to a healthy state, so on and so forth.
I have, I really wanna just sabotage wolf traps, but a more legal and realistic approach might work better in the long run. I like how they shoot the rhino and elephant poachers in Africa...part of the problem here are groups that claim to be conservationists but really want to create elk/moose/deer farms by removing predators, ie/ "Save Western Wildlife".
True. There are some good ones though. Few re-introduced the wolf, which was HUGE considering where they were at 60 years ago. Really solid for that ecosystem. The balance since the wolf disappeared was almost completely reliant upon hunters to maintain. Now, nature has managed to rebound. It really is a tight-rope walk.
Sounds fantastic. Do you cry when people fish at your local pier? lol Again, it's limited and only sharks over 10 feet. THere's a bag limit and a size limit. I put people before a stupid fish. You can say all day long about how life has dangers, but we do what we can to minimize risk. There's a reason we have speed limits. If culling a few sharks saves lives than I'm all for it. The environmentalist are a bunch of wako's that are OBSESSED with sharks. They LOVE them and dont' want to see them hurt. Nothing to do with species going extinct. Next you'll have tuna conservationist telling people that it's illegal to fish for them. People come before stupid fish. Thankfully the minister is smart enough to recognize that. " this government will always place greatest value on human life," the minister said." Oh almost everyone I see posting on here arenot surfing in dangerous waters like that. So it's easy to judge. You guys are surfing RI, NJ, NY, east coast, southern CA. These waters are SAFE. There the risk is truly low. Not in some of those areas of Australia. It's dangerous and people should be protected.
Too bad they didn't get more whites. That's the most dangerous ones. Hopefully they do it again soon. Also, they should net some of those breaks. Common sense.
Hey seldom, we are worried about replenishment ruining a break. Sharks would ruin a break even worse. I have ZERO fear of sharks in RI(knock on wood) or NJ or southern CA. Truly a million to one event. But if my home break was certain area's of South Africa, central CA, and certain parts of Australia as well as Brazil, I would not feel comfortable entering the water. It would ruin my favorite thing to do. I also CARE deeply about those people that got needlessly comped in half and I couldn't even imagine the terror that they went through and the grieving of their loved ones. Who grieves the shark when their killed? His shark family? LOL THEY HAVE NO EMOTIONS. THEIR A FISH Does the shark even care? Does the shark even remember more than 20 seconds of it's life? Have we placed such a low cost on our own life that we now see ourselves and our loved ones equivalent to a fish? I also find this OBSESSION with nature disconcerting as well. Nature is an inanimate object with no caring or feeling. We should make sure our water and air are good, but that's the extent of it. Worrying about some apex predator is absurd. It's been proven time and time again that a new balance will develop. You need a catastrophic event to cause a mass extinction of many species like a comet.(and lift still came back!) Every species that is here now will one day go extinct one day most likely. People! STOP BEING BRAINWASHED BY THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL SHARK CONSERVATIONIST PROPOGANDA! PLEASE
They do spray for mosquitoes during outbreaks of malaria and Encephalitis and in areas of high mosquitoes concentration. Wiping out mosquitoes would be fantastic. Too bad their impossible to to kill. Hawaiian Islands never had any before human settlers came. Should we have a bug conservation plan now? Crying for killed cockroaches? LOL
Well that says it all right there people who are lurking and reading this. A person wishing cancer on someone because they support the Australians government decision to fish for some sharks. SUMS IT UP. Really quality group of people on here.
I hate elephant poachers. Lovely creatures. But I must ask...give the death penalty for killing an animal? Are you serious. Didn't you say you were a pacifist?
