animalpest wrote:Yeah, everyone loved it.
Oh and the fishing was amazing. Finish work or in the morning before our night activities, in the dingy.
Spotlighting only accounted for less that 7% of foxes. Baiting and trapping did the rest. Not bad on cats though.
This figure surprises me.
Sure its easy for uneducated foxes to take baits in an area that isnt usually baited, but same goes for shooting...& its a lot easier to spread bullets to wipe out almost an entire generation of dumb pups that socialise together, than it is to set baits & traps, not to mention the double & triple time taken in monitoring/resetting them, (which obviously isnt necessary for placing bullets). And only one week every 2 months in such a big area is also surprising.
(just a statement, not an argument).
What sort of bait (1080...?, & what, if anything else...?) & what are the follow-on effects of it...ie; other natives/wildlife casualties from the bait/how long a working life does it have in the environment & down the food chain..?...(Was that also monitored, or just an ignored & accepted casualty of the program??)
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