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Good article Nick - you’re a great Devil advocate - but I’m constantly amazed how everyone is tip-toeing ever so softly around a few bleedingly obvious truths during the current diabolical crisis.
Truth #1 The devil decline commenced at around the same time that wholesale posioning of their food supply became the modus operandi of the timber companies, plantation owners and their puppet public “enterprises.”
Truth #2 No-one will ever conclusively “prove” the connnection between 1080 poisoning and the devil disease, but then, no-one has ever conclusively “proved” the connection between smoking and lung cancer either.
Truth #3 The Devils are not the only Tasmanian species being poisoned out of existence. Platypuses and a number of native frog species spring immediately to mind. Human residents of the East Coast of Tasmania are also under threat (cancer rates have risen 36% in recent years).
Truth #4 As a nation, we continue our self-indulgent obsession/grieving over the thylacine, whilst allowing other equally special species to be destroyed (clearfelling, burning, poisoning all play their part) by the red-headed “emperor”, his parliamentary minions and timber baron mates.
Roll on the State election!
Posted by Loren (Taz) Hartley on 19/10/05 at 09:59 PMi need a poem on the tasmanian devil
Posted by adolfo on 08/11/07 at 05:02 AM
