Foxes threaten Tasmania( Australia): expert warns

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Foxes threaten Tasmania: expert

5 December 2012 AAP

THE spread of foxes could have a catastrophic impact on Tasmania's abundant native wildlife, an expert warns.

DNA tests on animal droppings have proved that foxes exist in small numbers on the island, University of Canberra genetics professor Stephen Sarre says.

He warned that if the foxes spread they could have a catastrophic impact on Tasmania's abundant native wildlife.

"The present situation could be as serious a threat to the pristine Tasmanian environment as the previous extinction wave was to Australia's mainland fauna," says the report, published in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology.

There have been no proven sightings of foxes in Tasmania since one was seen running from a container ship in the 1990s, local media say.

A Tasmanian fox taskforce is controversial in the state because it has cost more than $30 million over the past decade.

But the report warns current baiting programs need to be boosted if Tasmania is to tackle the threat.

"We suggest that a massive upscaling of effort ... is going to be required," it says.

 

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[BEARINATOR 2,924]

Another alien species going to do serious damage , send a few aussie staghounds in

[chris87 297]

30million for fox task force what they doing buying tanks to combat them

[BEARINATOR 2,924]

30million for fox task force what they doing buying tanks to combat them

:laugh: Mate, but my Aussie pal said the other day that over there they can have 3 litters a year, so if a vixen has been having 3 litters a year since 1990 then it will make a major problem

[Paid 935]

I know we took foxes, rabbits, black birds , robins and other species over there, anyone know if there are any badgers ?

[BEARINATOR 2,924]

anyone know if there are any badgers ?

 

None mate as I've asked

[chris87 297]

30million for fox task force what they doing buying tanks to combat them

:laugh: Mate, but my Aussie pal said the other day that over there they can have 3 litters a year, so if a vixen has been having 3 litters a year since 1990 then it will make a major problem

i suppose when you look at it that way, 30million still seems an alot of money for a problem that can realistically be solved with a couple of lurchers!! send me over il sort them out :laugh: Edited December 8, 2012 by chris87

[BEARINATOR 2,924]

i suppose when you look at it that way, 30million still seems an alot of money for a problem that can realistically be solved with a couple of lurchers!! send me over il sort them out :laugh:

 

A couple of good whippets in your luggage will see them off for less , My pal sent me a pic the other week of 10 or 11 foxes in 1 night and his stags were out a couple of days later working again

[chris87 297]

i suppose when you look at it that way, 30million still seems an alot of money for a problem that can realistically be solved with a couple of lurchers!! send me over il sort them out :laugh:

 

A couple of good whippets in your luggage will see them off for less , My pal sent me a pic the other week of 10 or 11 foxes in 1 night and his stags were out a couple of days later working again

seen a few pics of foxes been hunted over there all right , some pics of all the foxes id be happy out for the whole season if i got that many rabbits in a night never mind fox