Posted on 01/09/2017 6:35:48 PM PST by SJackson
Edited on 01/10/2017 3:36:58 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
First, a confession. Many years ago, I worked as a press officer for a small national wildlife charity. I found this quite a challenging job at the time, not least because the creatures whose declining fortunes I was promoting were frogs and toads, and national news editors have far less interest in frogs and toads than you might imagine. For many years, while my peers in other wildlife charities garnered all sorts of front-page stories, I failed to make even a news in brief section with my stories.
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Sounds like satire but there are calls in Britain for just this.
I could do without house sparrows. Someone thought they were a good idea, and brought them to America where they are now one of very few birds you can kill as a pest. They’re aggressive, noisy, numerous.
African bees should never have gotten here either. :(
> Deep down, many generations ago, we all come from worlds without arbitrary borders, where nations and concepts of repatriation mean nothing. Every life form alive today has a history someplace else, if you go far enough back. But let’s not consider that, right? It’s only a bit of fun, after all.
Even animals know to defend their turf from other animals that encroach on it. “People” like this author are mentally defective.
The latest lizards I see around seem to have killed off the geckos and the lizards that I grew up seeing before the geckos came into the area.
There are invasive ant species (crazy raspberry ants, or some such name), invasive fish and barnacle species, and invasive plants.
Some invaders are plain pests and the Guardian lefty seems to be of the mind that if white people don’t like something it must be commendable.
Don’t forget starlings either, a far more noxious bird...
Really?
I'll just send along a box of Prairie Dogs, a mating pair of DB Rattlers (to keep the groundrat count down a bit) plus a note that sez "Best regards from the American Wild West".
...got enough of both species around here to bury that Limey Twit up to his eyeballs and I don't know anybody of any skintone wouldn't ship 'em all out.
Don’t forget the fire ants.
“...and I don’t know anybody of any skintone wouldn’t ship ‘em all out.”
Huge fines for killing a rattle snake here in MI.
what about the little brown pakis? they are an invasive subspecies
That's one of many reasons why my entire family left the Midwest back in the 60's, although I'm the only one wound up in Montana.
Those fines do make sense in a way, though....lawyers and democrats do have to look out for their own. (I'll almost bet there's a fine for killing skunks there as well by that logic.)
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