In previous articles and comments, as well as before the PAC Committee, I have argued for a logical conversation that deduces that foxes have established small, well-dispersed, breeding populations across a large part of Tasmania BASED on the current physical evidence available to DPIWE.
I have asked similar questions of the CEO to the Invasive Animals CRC, Professor Tony Peacock – on Tasmanian Times and his own “Feral Thoughts” website. To no avail and no scientific publication on the proof for the existence of breeding propulations of European red foxes in Tasmania.
Each time a new transcript of testimony was uploaded onto the PAC Fox Inquiry website I was expecting the coup-de-grace to be finally administered; for the so-called fox-sceptics to finally be dispatched to obscurity by the weight of logical analysis of the evidence and the laboratory forensics.
I stand to be corrected but I have indeed missed such a withering refutation of the sceptics’ numerous questions and arguments.
The Tasmanian devil remains Tasmania’s greatest insurance against the establishment of European red foxes. As several Australian ecologists have already suggested, this species might justifiably be considered for biological control of foxes on the Australian mainland.
An estimated THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS – from 2001-2009 – given to DPIWE in Tasmania for fox control and our own devil might be out there doing the hard yards for nothing!
This comment appears on this article HERE. Comment HERE
HERE, Earlier on Tasmanian Times: Jim Wilkinson’s serious omission
AND HERE: Is it accepted. Will it work?
