Australian farmers are under siege from a kangaroo plague as the animals flood into towns looking for food. Their grazing land has been ravaged by drought "local television footage shows shows kangaroos on the streets, in the parks and backyards, with many hanging around into the morning."
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Why are they so fearful of kangaroos? They live in Australia. The roos have much more to fear from people and their livestock sucking dry the land, on the driest continent in the world, than visa versa. If these incredibly adapted animals are suffering from heat, drought and climate change, then it is a terrible indication of the toll of 220 years since European settlement has caused. There cold hearts want to deny kangaroos and emus the food and water, by right, should be available for them as original inhabitants. Kangaroos are not dangerous, unless they are startled or challenged. They need some compassion, not all this hysteria of hate and fear.
The Kangaroos aren't the problem! they're reacting to a major drought and threats to their habitat. Ranchers need to stop killing these animals which are a threatened species.
Or are the kangaroos dealing with a human plague living where they used to go during droughts.
exactly
australia is in the middle of a 20 year drought. if it doesn't change quick, it is doomed. and they want to pretend the kangaroos are a problem. silly
as has been said:
this is not our planet
we better learn to live in it or we''ll die off. the planet will outsurvive us.
The planet abides for only so long. I think the Earth has literally completely died several times. Once it became an inferno, and once it froze everything.
Always: the bacteria remains tucked away in some little crevice ready to start life all over again. Like the Ark of life.
On a planetary and a galactic scale, Humans are incidental.
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First Posted: 11- 5-09 07:04 PM | Updated: 11- 5-09 07:37 PM