Applied ecology and conservation research groupCan recreational hunters control feral animals? Is there a role for so-called “conservation hunters”? And is their claim backed by science?
What about the introduction of native predators, such as dingos, or companion animals such as alpacas?
These questions are explored by Anja Taylor on the ABC’s popular science program, Catalyst.
The video and a transcipt is available from the Catalyst archive.
Experts are warning Australia’s National Parks are facing a ‘death by a thousand cuts’. As protections against grazing, hunting and logging within the parks relax, we are at risk of finding out first-hand just how fragile these eco-systems are, and why they desperately need protecting.
Professor Bill Laurance and I speak to The Wire’s Graham Backhaus.
![Kakadu National Park. Image: Thomas Schoch [CC-BY-SA-2.5], via Wikimedia Commons](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Yello_Water_Kakadu_National_Park_Australia.jpg)
National parks on land and in the ocean are dying a death of a thousand cuts, in the form of bullets, hooks, hotels, logging concessions and grazing licences. It’s been an extraordinary last few months, with various governments in eastern states proposing new uses for these critically important areas.
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