Frankie Seymour, Author at The District Bulletin

Complex issues ignored with Brumby cull demands

Special Report

by Frankie Seymour - 19/03/201919/03/2019

Climate change retreat of snow will dwarf impact of introduced animals By Frankie Seymour — AJP candidate Monaro, (environmental scientist) UNTIL I SAW it two week ago, I was fairly agnostic about whether the damage attributed to the Brumbies in Kosciuszko National Park was real or just yet another ‘feral’-bashing beat-up. Then

Bush Heritage at Scottsdale shoots wildlife, again

by Frankie Seymour - 20/02/201809/03/2018

LATE IN JANUARY, the Animal Justice Party asked me, as their regional spokesperson on kangaroos, to speak to a journalist who was writing an article for Fairfax media on a proposal to kill 900 kangaroos over two years at the Scottsdale Reserve, near Bredbo. As it turned out, the Fairfax article

Safeguard and conserve what we have

by Frankie Seymour - 14/08/201726/08/2017

NEW report: Hot, Dry& Deadly: NSW plants, animals (including humans) face ultimate challenge Review by Frankie Seymour Hot, Dry& Deadly: Impacts of Climate Change on Nature in NSW is a clear and concise document launched regionally last month by the Nature Conservation Council of NSW, a peak organisation representing 160 member organisations. The

Barilaro suggests Qbn take latest in series of cruel entertainments from ACT

by Frankie Seymour - 03/07/201703/07/2017

Back in the days when minority governments in the ACT were still insecure enough to care about what the voters wanted, the ACT Animal Welfare Act of 1992 recognised the cruelty of rodeos and circuses that used exotic animals, and banned them in the ACT. Queanbeyan Council was quick to cash

ACT wildlife management

Environment

by Frankie Seymour - 12/09/201612/09/2016

Condemning orphan joeys and endangering humans Since animal protection activists began their nightly vigils on and around the reserves where the ACT government conducts its annual kangaroo slaughter, they have observed dozens of dependent kangaroo joeys, unattended by any adult kangaroos, lining the nearby roadsides. Most of these joeys will never

Whistleblower’s conviction overturned

Kangaroo Archive

by Frankie Seymour - 08/08/201611/09/2016

Chris Klootwijk’s response to his acquittal: “It’s great! I’ve been promoted from ‘crim’ to ‘pest’.” ACT failed to have valid license to shoot wildlife Court report by Frankie Seymour The ACT Supreme Court has overturned, on appeal, the conviction of a man for ‘hindering a government official’ by blowing a whistle during the

New ‘free range’ standard leaves no room to flap wings

Environment

by Frankie Seymour - 23/05/201623/05/2016

In defiance of the national Animal Welfare Code of Practice for Domestic Poultry, state Consumer Affairs Ministers have now permitted egg producers to label their eggs ‘free range’, even when they are cramming 10,000 birds into a single hectare. The national code of practice recommends no more than 1500 hens per

Verdict in cull whistleblower case

Kangaroo Archive

by Frankie Seymour - 05/05/201612/05/2016

Verdict against Chris Klootwijk raises more questions than it answers regarding legality of ACT crackdown on cull protesters. Seen here, Klootwijk points to shooter vehicle damage to the sensitive ACT grasslands. Appeal on horizon Chris Klootwijk, who was convicted on one of two counts of hindering two public officials (a ranger and

Troubling start to court case against whistleblower in ACT kangaroo killing program

Kangaroo Archive

by Frankie Seymour - 10/03/201610/03/2016

Report from the courtroom and analysis The ACT government’s court case against a man for (literally) blowing the whistle, started on 24 February. Chris Klootwijk was arrested while lawfully walking on the Rose Cottage Horse Paddocks near the Wanniassa Hills Nature Reserve on the evening of 1 July 2015. He was arrested