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Jim’s Australiana Spot – 2UE - March 27, 2011

Aussie Animals - Too Many and Too Few - Imports and Exports

Recently the floods and cyclones in Nth Queensland have highlighted the situation of the Cassowary ...of which there are now too few ...and the crocodiles ...of which there are too many! We have not been clever in what we imported and exported and hunted and didn't!

Questions

Q	We gave NZ the possum ..... tell us TWO types of creature NZ didn't have before European settlement ?
A	Mammals and snakes
Q	Now and then exported animals are a blessing in disguise - NZ helped re establish a wallaby thought to be extinct - which one was it?
A	Nail Tailed Wallaby
Q	Western Australia maintains patrols to keep out which dangerous pest?
A	Sparrow

Nail Tailed Wallaby

Our track record with Importing and exporting animals TRAGIC :

• Blackbirds sparrows and Indian Mynahs • Feral goats and pigs devastated bush in 19th century and still do • Rabbits - changed our landscape forever • Buffalo, camels and donkeys in NT - untold damage to grazing lands • Cane Toads - ecological disaster • Possums to NZ - destroying whole forests

Successes -

cactoblastus moth destroyed prickly pear and some native creatures have come back from near extinction.


Cane Toad	Prickly Pear

CANE TOAD
Jim Haynes


Scientists will all attest The cane toad is a noxious pest. With eighteen poisons on his skin, Ugly warts and wicked grin. He gobbles up our native creatures And, with his ugly toxic features, Poisons those that try to eat him, Let’s hope that science can defeat him. (Meanwhile, when on a Queensland road, Please don’t swerve to avoid a toad.)

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