NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA: This is an example of zoonosis which is a health problem of increasing concern for humans. A zoonosis is an infectious disease that has jumped from a non-human animal to humans. In this instance the disease takes the form of an endoparasite that usually resides in pythons but was transferred to a …
Wriggling parasitic worm 8 cm long removed from woman’s brain Read More »
Why don’t the Australian authorities use immuno-contraception (IC) by vaccination to control the population feral cats in Australia which prey on native species and which annoy the Australian authorities so much? The vaccination could be given orally. And it seems to me that theoretically it could be given orally using the device that the clever …
Immuno-contraception by oral vaccination of feral cats in Australia Read More »
The Animal Save Movement on Twitter says this about the video: This footage was recently filmed over a 2.5-week period at the property of one of Australia’s leading greyhound trainers. It shows dogs and puppies being kicked, punched, dragged and beaten. If this is the industry’s best, imagine the worst. Greyhound racing equals animal cruelty. …
Perhaps we have the impression that sharks are nasty predators that attack people at any opportunity. Sharks are certainly persecuted by humans. They are endangered actually mainly because of the insatiable appetite in Asia for shark find soup. It is wiping the species out. But that is another topic. The Aussie authorities have deemed a …
There is a pretty shocking photograph on the Internet today of millions of small dead fish blanketing the Darling River in western New South Wales which has clearly become uninhabitable. The fish species are herring, perch and carp for example. One local person, Graeme McCrabb said that there is 100 km of river with dead …
NEWS AND OPINION – PERTH, AUSTRALIA: This is another horror story about how humankind treats animals. Some people don’t care but I, for one, do. Massive livestock transport ships which I believe are owned by two companies: the Kuwaiti-owned Livestock Shipping Services and Rural Export and Trading WA (Retwa), based in Perth, ship vast quantities …
Once again, we are told that Australia is changing the face of cat domestication in order to protect their native species, often their small native mammals which are particularly vulnerable to domestic cat predation. This is because historically they never had to deal with cat predation and therefore, they have not armed themselves against it. …
Strong trend in Australia to keep domestic cats inside full-time has a big DEFECT Read More »
The cane toad is an invasive species in Australia. Australians don’t like invasive species because they often attack native species. Australians love their native species and will do anything to protect them. Australia’s native species are threatened primarily by human activity and population growth which is destroying their habitat. That’s the introduction. I don’t like …
Record-breaking, mammoth cane toad put down by park rangers as it’s an invasive species Read More »
They don’t know whether the current deluge in Sydney, Australia is a result of global warming, but they do know that a 20-minute downpour last Thursday pushed Sydney’s rainfall beyond that recorded in any year since records began according to Bernard Lagan writing for The Times newspaper. The record of 86.4 inches (2197 mm) set …
Sydney’s record rainfall has lured funnel web spiders into homes Read More »
Background: As the title says, magpies anywhere fiercely defend their nests. This is seen when magpies peck at domestic cats who are outside minding their own business often snoozing on the ground. Australia is hosting the UCI World Road Championships which despite meticulous planning designated the finish line at the coastal city of Wollongong, 60 …
Magpies defend their nests against allcomers including professional cyclists down under Read More »
NEWS AND COMMENT: When is humankind going to learn to behave sensibly and in a way which protects the lump of rock on which it lives? Is humankind so reckless and idiotic as to destroy the planet which sustains it? And how long does it take for humankind to digest what has been known for …
1912: news article warned of global warming. When are we going to learn? Read More »
New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that nearly all of Australia’s 200 million rabbits come from one group of foundation rabbits introduced into Australia in 1859 by a man called Thomas Austin. At the time he was in Australia and he wrote to his family in Britain asking …
Almost all of Australia’s invasive rabbits come from one introduction by an Englishman Read More »
Like many others, I’ve just watched that match between Nick Kyrgios and Stephan Tsitsipas (number 4 seed) at Wimbledon (2022) which Kyrgios won with an amazing drop shot. Kyrgios was incredibly badly behaved in between playing sublime tennis. He plays shots that nobody else can and has immense courage but his ranting and raving, endless …
Australians are famous for blaming the approximate 2 million feral cats on their continent for the loss of millions of animals of native species primarily marsupials and mammals. A lot of effort has gone into eradicating the ‘pest’ of feral cats from the continent in order to protect small native mammals and marsupials. Thousands of …
Australia’s coalmining is probably more damaging to their native species than feral cats Read More »
Gilbert’s potoroo vanished in the 1870s. It was believed to have become extinct about 120 years ago. It was (now is) one of Australia’s precious marsupial native species. It looks like a cute rat crossed with a kangaroo. Dr. Jackie Courtenay, a conservation biologist with the Gilbert’s Potoroo Action Group, said: “It really is a …
Rat-kangaroo reappears after being ‘extinct’ for 120 years Read More »
