The Mayor v. Skippy. It's personal now

The bleeding hearts are now taking it to court the clog the system up even more why do they advertise what there doing? And not just wop in to the roos and deal with the fall out from the water melons later?

But have you heard of the Unbuttoned Wrinklewort?

Also known as the Michael Douglas.

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The cull is a revolting thing; surely there must be another solution? How are they going with contraceptives for Skippy (or Mr Skippy)? The legless, earless and wrinkled lived side by side with kangaroos (and people who didn’t wreck the land) for many years.

There is something very sad about our national symbol being killed en masse and chopped up to poison feral animals.

Endrey said :

Hmm…up to 20%. Why not say up to 100%?

That way you still include the possibility of zero and get to sound far less wasteful.

I was suspicious about that too, Chris – but the longer Q&A linked to in the original post says it’ll be from 15 to 20%.

Anna Key said :

I’m just glad Shane is out to protect Button Wrinklewort. (no idea what it is but has a great name!)

I’ve got quite a bit of that on my place, and craploads of roos. Hmmm.
http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspecies.pl?taxon_id=7384

I heard a radio personality only today say there are claims if the cull goes ahead, there is a risk their population will be under threat. I get outside in Canberra from time to time and I see the population of kangaroos is without question over-represented (for a word) and, in spite of the expansion of the suburbs of Canberra, I see more bush than not only within our fine city and indeed territory limits, but for acres upon acres afield from our borders.

All this aside however, is it possible? Could Canberra really look like that picture of grass?? I’m afraid I must remain skeptical.

I wonder if the nature park land they are protecting from ‘overgrazing’ (to ensure there is food for other critters?) will be the same places they back burn later in the year before fire season?? hahaha!
Thank god for us humans. You have to wonder how any ecosystems survived before we came along to twiddle the knobs and levers…! How did any creature survive in Aus before we got here to fix things for them? 🙂

I’m just glad Shane is out to protect Button Wrinklewort. (no idea what it is but has a great name!)

Masquara said :

Shane Rattenbury’s motivation is nothing more, nothing less, than allowing more unpleasant, eco-vandalistic suburban development. While supposedly espousing that high-rise is desirable on ecological grounds, his behaviour is the polar opposite. If he actually behaved like a Green, he’d be keeping the ecosystem from being encroached by housing. He is hopelessly, utterly compromised.

Yeah right………………………………..I’m sure thats the reason
All sites that they’ve listed for culling this year and previous years are nature reserves

So where are they exactly culling kangaroos that is slated for ‘eco-vandalsitic’ suburban development, you going to make a claim like that you got to back it up.

enlighten us please

Shane Rattenbury’s motivation is nothing more, nothing less, than allowing more unpleasant, eco-vandalistic suburban development. While supposedly espousing that high-rise is desirable on ecological grounds, his behaviour is the polar opposite. If he actually behaved like a Green, he’d be keeping the ecosystem from being encroached by housing. He is hopelessly, utterly compromised.

crappicker said :

I do not believe the numbers quoted by ACT government ecologists in their proposal for this year’s slaughter in ACT nature reserves (CT 02/06/2013: huge roo cull call aims to kill 2000). I walk daily through the Wanniassa Hills Reserve (WHR) and adjacent government horse paddocks and last month carried out systematic counting of the kangaroo population over a five day period. I am not an ecologist,

Funny how you blokes will jump up and down about anyone who questions climate change science but cull science must be wrong.
Lets just hope the crazy people don’t go cutting fences again this year.

Matt_Watts said :

Went for a walk on Mt Painter the other month. HUGE number of roos up there. I became surrounded at one point.

Really, and you got away unscathed?

From this we can deduce Canberra’s roo population vote Liberal – and another possible reason for the cull suddenly becomes clear!

Went for a walk on Mt Painter the other month. HUGE number of roos up there. I became surrounded at one point.

It’s obvious! The overpopulation of kangaroos is caused by a miss match between prey and predator. This can be remedied by introduction of Leopards, Panthers or my favorite; cheetahs! They can run around eating roos until the re-birth of the Tasmanian Tiger from specimen jars.

The Wrath of Rattenbury

“He kicked me. He hopped and he kicked me and I shall have him! I’ll chase him ’round the maze of roads of the inner south and ’round the brown country side of the nature park and ’round Charnwood’s car wreck flames before I give him up!”

Shane’s effort made it to one of my favourite podcasts (‘smartest man in the world’, which is American). I was quite proud.

Hmm…up to 20%. Why not say up to 100%?

That way you still include the possibility of zero and get to sound far less wasteful.

So what evil motives are behind this despicable slaughter conspiracy then? No one gains from it financially as far as I can see.

And it sh!ts me to tears when people suggest that green or environmental means having to save anything and everything from death no matter what. It takes courage to kill the cuddly to save the ugly, I say. Don’t start me on so called nature lovers saving orphaned joeys from culls and hand raising them. It puts the mental in environmental…

And the reason why they cannot make it into a commercial activity is because to make that viable they would then have to meet a certain quota each year, I believe and they wouldn’t want to commit to that. There’s something about that in the CT article, but I’m in a hurry so can’t go find it now.

Mr Evil said :

I also find it’s interesting that they state that the ‘Greater-Eastern Legless Horny Beer-Drinking Toad’ is endangered by the Kangaroos consuming so much pasture, yet the same authorities seem to turn a blind eye to the fact that bulldozing half of the Molonglo/Murrumbidgee River corridor for ‘cheap’ housing is probably worse for whatever poor critters are out there.

Absolutely. Land release and biodiversity protection are competing priorities. That doesn’t change the fact that biodiversity values WITHIN the reserve system have to be protected, which falls on the Parks mob, who don’t have a great deal of say in the release of land.

crappicker said :

I do not believe the numbers quoted by ACT government ecologists in their proposal for this year’s slaughter in ACT nature reserves (

I hope you kept records and your methodology, and look forward to reading the research paper in the future. Without physically demonstrable data, it’s just competing ideologies shouting at each other. Science is not pantomime. (Oh Yes It Is!)

Mr Evil said :

I also find it’s interesting that they state that the ‘Greater-Eastern Legless Horny Beer-Drinking Toad’ is endangered…

I would add, lazy and cheap to the mix though.

There’s no need to be rude. What did the toads do to you?

(sorry, couldn’t resist).

Mr Evil said :

Is it just me, or does anyone else think the ACT’s scientific culling of Kangaroos is starting to sound as convincing and well researched as Japan’s ‘scientific’ whaling operations?

It’s not starting to sound like Japan’s scientific whaling, it’s been dodgy from the start.

The Science: Jeez, there’s a lot of roos in that paddock. One almost hit my car! I heard a guy at work hit one last week. There’s too many of them! Let’s have a Scientific Cull.

Mr Evil said :

I also find it’s interesting that they state that the ‘Greater-Eastern Legless Horny Beer-Drinking Toad’ is endangered by the Kangaroos consuming so much pasture, yet the same authorities seem to turn a blind eye to the fact that bulldozing half of the Molonglo/Murrumbidgee River corridor for ‘cheap’ housing is probably worse for whatever poor critters are out there.

Sssssh. You’re using logic again. We don’t like that. Fact is, if they build over 100 acres with housing, then it stands to reason they have to have more Scientific Culls as now there’s less grass for the kangaroos. and more residents whose cars must be protected from them.

Plenty of roos out my way, I think I surprised about 100 of them last night, not seeing any starving though. Feed is not plentiful (the rain will help with that, in about a week), it’s winter after a dry season, but they are quite good at ferreting out grass. And unlike our introduced grazing animals, and rabbits, they don’t graze down to the soil.

I do not believe the numbers quoted by ACT government ecologists in their proposal for this year’s slaughter in ACT nature reserves (CT 02/06/2013: huge roo cull call aims to kill 2000). I walk daily through the Wanniassa Hills Reserve (WHR) and adjacent government horse paddocks and last month carried out systematic counting of the kangaroo population over a five day period. I am not an ecologist, but as a well-trained field geologist/geophysicist I can count, can locate myself on the map, and can distinguish rocks from trees and kangaroos. In my opinion there are no more than a few hundred kangaroos resident in WHR, that is about one fifth of the 1133 quoted by the government ecologists and about half of the 400 proposed for culling. There are substantial kangaroo mobs in the adjacent government horse paddocks, but these mobs have shown reluctance to take up residence in the WHR after last year’s slaughter near the boundary fence. I see no reasonable ground to include these mobs in the WHR count, inadvertently doing so would not even come close to the 1133 number quoted by the government ecologists. WHR may have escaped yet another slaughter this year, but its inflated kangaroo count queries the justification for the wider culling program in ACT nature reserves. Kangaroo slaughter in the ACT was started in the Stanhope era. It is disappointing that Shane Rattenbury has not shown the spine to steer this cruel slaughter program around towards fertility control. As an incoming green minister with an impressive environmental action record I had expected otherwise.

Is it just me, or does anyone else think the ACT’s scientific culling of Kangaroos is starting to sound as convincing and well researched as Japan’s ‘scientific’ whaling operations?

I also find it’s interesting that they state that the ‘Greater-Eastern Legless Horny Beer-Drinking Toad’ is endangered by the Kangaroos consuming so much pasture, yet the same authorities seem to turn a blind eye to the fact that bulldozing half of the Molonglo/Murrumbidgee River corridor for ‘cheap’ housing is probably worse for whatever poor critters are out there.

I am surprised that they are still claiming that the cull is too small for financial gain i.e. justifying the lack of appropriate use/consumption of the culled animals. I’m no expert but 1,455 animals seems like allot to bury in the ground. I would suggest that this is not an economic restriction but a jurisdictional regulatory restriction that the legislative assemble is unable or unwilling to rectify.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Except in this case – its best served roasted medium rare with a side of veges.

The fauna that the roos adversely impact is humans and their cars.

Need to shoot more then that to make a dent on the bastards

Retribution will be swift,off with their heads!

” hey ,, watta can I say .. youz don’t a fk-a with the mayor,,, kapeesh !