7 September 1936.
One of those sad dates in Tasmanian/Australian and World history
The last surviving Tasmanian Tiger died in captivity in a Hobart Zoo.
To show how pathetic humans are, a law to protect the Tasmanian Tiger was passed two months before the death of this last survivor.
How does one protect a species when there is only one of the species?
Man is a disgrace when it comes to protecting native animals.
A bounty was placed on the Tigers because farmers mistakenly blamed the Tigers for killing their sheep and cattle.
For every dead Tiger presented, one pound was paid to the hunters.
Livestock was more valuable than the native Thylacine.
Sad day indeed.
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They are destroying the plants they live in and eat too.
Around here anyway.
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AM thinking red flashing low powered LED lights on the front of 18 wheelers will save a lot of wildlife hit on the I-states, Most wildlife fear fire and will move out of its way? Will they need to smell smoke too?
Am thinking a study of red flashingLED’s and a smoke like aroma needs to happen to save millions of wildlife gunned down on the highways at night. Maybe high on the cab, or on the sides of the I’s sounds better.
It would be easy to point the LED red flashing lights on posts pointed away from traffic, toward the ditches!
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Maybe that Tiger can be cloned with $100,000,000 donations.
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Protecting innocent wildlife is on our conscious too.
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The process is occurring as we speak.
https://www.unimelb.edu.au/giving/impact-of-giving/impact-stories/bringing-back-to-life-an-enigmatic-marsupial
The problem with roos is that they try to jump over the headlights at night
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