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Koalas Gone Wild

Posted by michael on from the little-fuzzy-animals-with-big-sharp-teeth dept.

Mabon writes "CNN reports that 30,000 of the starving animals are destroying the ecosystem by stripping away the greenery. The Austrailian government proposes shooting some 20,000 of them to reduce the amount of gum trees used by the animals."

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  1. Hypocrisy by rixstep · · Score: -1, Troll

    Years ago the Koala was threatened by Shanghai developers who started digging up their habitat to build expensive condos. The Aussie government did nothing. A lady in the area petitioned everyone, got nowhere. She even ran after Peter Garrett, singer in Midnight Oil, for assistance, and was rebuffed at the door so to speak.

    I spoke with Peter's press agent about this. 'They're all so politically naive' he commented. Which is about as pompous as it gets - they never would let the woman through just to state her case.

    So the Koala is threatened. And it's not as if it has places all over the world to live. This place is about it. And now they supposedly have condos there. No wonder the poor things are going nuts.

    So what to do? Shoot 20,000 of them. Good solution, Australia!

    You just went on my blacklist.

  2. gone wild by kwoff · · Score: 0, Troll

    I bet if it was 30,000 girls gone wild, there wouldn't be any talk of shooting them.