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Shooting In National Parks - NSW 19-Feb-2013 At 9:32:01 AM Superstu

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Recreational hunting will have no effect on feral pest numbers. To remove a feral pest requires a strategic approach. Select a target species in a given area, eradicate that species from the designated area using a variety of techniques (shooting, baiting, trapping, whatever), then periodically followup to monitor and respond to subsequent migrations back into the area. Randomly popping off animals across the board will have no effect what-so-ever. Animals breed and spread out to replace the ones you popped off remarkably effectively.

To give amateur hunters the credit of working for conservation is truly laughable. They are interested in trophy kills and having a good time. Foxes and wild dogs are not easy to track and shoot, so an amateur hunter will probably go out to shoot something else, whatever takes their fancy. Every park ranger has a story of having to clean up a mutilated wombat carcasse or kangaroo with arrow wounds. And there have been incidents of vehicles encountered in national parks carrying young sows or fawns under the taupaulin, ready to be released into the park. Do you seriously think amateur shooters are interested in conservation at all???? The shooters & fishers party demanded the dismantlement of the marine parks, a plan based on conservation science that would ironically result in more and bigger fish to catch.

> On 19/02/2013 lacto wrote:
> Ok so no shooting in national parks how do you remove the feral animals

Feral animals are currently dealt with using coordinated approaches involving baiting, trapping, professional shooters, and lots of monitoring to assess numbers and distribution so you can measure the effectiveness of the programs. There are volunteer programs to help with the monitoring if anybody is interested.