The barking owl, above, had to be euthanased after its wing was snagged on the barbed wire fence (Wildlife Care NT). The rescue prompted the animal welfare organisation to issue a plea to the public to consider the impact of barbed wire on local wildlife. More than 75 different species of wildlife
Author: AWPC with attributed sources
Lethal management: 1080 poison — why do they use it and blur its horrendous impacts?
THIS YEAR 2020, the NSW government is undertaking a wide-ranging killing program that it is proud to call the “largest feral animal control program in the state’s history” following the 2019–2020 bushfires. This involves dropping poison baits disguised as food for hungry mammalian animals into 60,000 kilometres of the state’s