by FRED PAWLE – GREENIES are suspiciously selective about the species they want to protect. The culling of animals is far more commonplace than most people realise. In fact, we all regularly do it. Environmentalists describe sharks as an “apex predator”, as…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – I’M SURE Banjo Paterson would be rolling in his grave if he learned that the beautiful wild brumbies that featured in his immortal The Man from Snowy River are again being subjected to an extensive aerial cull. “Cull” is…
by FRED PAWLE – AUSTRALIA, once the home of bronzed adventurers, is quickly becoming as forlorn and pessimistic as Europe was on the eve of World War I. On the evening of August 3, 1914, after it had become clear that catastrophic…
by FRED PAWLE – ANY proposal to reduce the population of dangerous animals almost always results with environmentalists going hysterical. Keeping people safe from predatory animals was once considered an admirable, even noble thing. Scientists resist the simplicity of a cull, insisting…
