[TalonDJ]

“Indeed, the team spent five months obtaining the necessary permissions for captive breeding from Australia’s governmental agencies “

And there is their problem. The whiny little bleeding hearts cared more about the bureaucracy. They could live trapped a dozen and been breeding them before any paperwork was done.

[To Hell With Poverty]

Right. Burocracy kills.

[Roccus]

FTA “Captive breeding is an expensive undertaking, requiring a significant commitment of staff, resources and time by the parties involved,” he explained. “This is particularly true for a program that is likely to be required for an indefinite period, as would have been the case for the Bramble Cay melomys.”

They couldn't get the $$$$$$$$$

[fireman15]

This entire article is complete nonsense. It illustrates only the complete incompetence of a government agency to accomplish anything worthwhile despite spending unimaginable amounts of money on a non-existent problme. There are for more species of rodents that have gone extinct than exist today. This is an every day occurrence and has in this case has nothing to do with “global warming”. The form of “climate change” that causes most mass extinctions is called an “ice age”. If we are very fortunate the current interglacial (period of time between ice ages) will continue for another thousand years, but the clock keeps ticking. Just ten thousand years ago the place where we live (in the foothills outside of Seattle) was under thousands of feet of ice.

[Louis Foxwell]

In point of fact they could have put them in the pet trade and created a population of millions.