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Tasmanian Devils Wipe Out Thousands of Penguins on Tiny Australian Island

posted by mrpg on Tuesday June 22 2021, @04:14AM   
from the humans-again-at-it dept.

upstart writes:

Tasmanian devils wipe out thousands of penguins on tiny Australian island:

An attempt to save the Tasmanian devil by shipping an "insurance population" to a tiny Australian island has come at a "catastrophic" cost to the birdlife there, including the complete elimination of little penguins, according to BirdLife Tasmania.

Maria Island, a 116-square-kilometre island east of Tasmania, was home to 3,000 breeding pairs of little penguins around a decade ago.

Their populations have dwindled since Tasmanian devils were introduced in 2012, but according to BirdLife Tasmania, the most recent survey conducted by the parks department showed penguins had completely disappeared from the island.

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• Re:Humans in their "cleverness".... Re:Humans in their "cleverness".... (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 22 2021, @05:39AM (4 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 22 2021, @05:39AM (#1147941)

  Of course, all those mistakes are predicated on the first mistake: Letting the fucking Brits in!

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• Re:Humans in their "cleverness".... (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 22 2021, @07:25AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 22 2021, @07:25AM (#1147949)

  Let? One could wish. More like they barged in with their Navy, often with guns blazing.

  https://www.quora.com/How-many-people-did-the-British-empire-kill-worldwide [quora.com] [Quora]
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARSNaSeT9hw [youtube.com] [Youtube - some Irish humour]

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• Re:Humans in their "cleverness".... Re:Humans in their "cleverness".... (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 22 2021, @12:18PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 22 2021, @12:18PM (#1147973)

  The "native" aborigines wiped out the large marsupials when they arrived, leaving only smaller animals for the Brits to inadvertently kill.

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  • Re:Humans in their "cleverness".... (Score: 1) by js290 on Tuesday June 22 2021, @03:16PM

    by js290 (14148) on Tuesday June 22 2021, @03:16PM (#1148032)

    @joerogan Experience #961 - @Graham__Hancock, #RandallCarlson & @michaelshermer Hunted to extinction or cataclysm? [bit.ly]
    The Extinct Ice Age Mammals of North America - Professor Donald Grayson... hunted to extinction? [bit.ly]
    "Why are hunter-gatherer women hunting/foraging?" Talebian Barbell strategy [bit.ly]

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• Re:Humans in their "cleverness".... (Score: 1) by js290 on Tuesday June 22 2021, @03:12PM

  by js290 (14148) on Tuesday June 22 2021, @03:12PM (#1148029)

  Redesigning Civilization Toby Hemenway Clash of cultures HG vs agriculture: [bit.ly]

  "There are structural problems with a civilization built on agriculture... Sitting Bull and his people had no use for these laws... There was nothing the US govt or agriculture could offer them. They really were the freest people in the world... so [US govt] exterminated them."

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