This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Saturday, 6 February 2021
Kangaroo Conservation Boomerangs?
It is generally assumed that, because the kangaroo in Australia is a native Marsupial, it can do no harm (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/06/how-kangaroos-could-be-jeopardising-conservation-efforts-across-australia). Professor Mike Letnic (University of New South Wales) claims, however, that burgeoning numbers of kangaroos are threatening conservation efforts across Australia, by denuding whole areas of their vegetation. Letnic suggests that the population boom is a consequence of the culling and exclusion of wild dingoes. Dingoes, in recent times, were this Marsupials's main predator. It is certainly true that you need a balance between herbivores and their predators, inorder to maintain the health of environments.
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