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It's interesting how one community sees the rainbow lorikeet as an invasive pest that needs to be eliminated and another community is carefully redesigning buil
by CobrastanJorji 7y ago
It's interesting how one community sees the rainbow lorikeet as an invasive pest that needs to be eliminated and another community is carefully redesigning buildings to save the poor rainbow lorikeets.
- SideburnsOfDoom 7y ago> carefully redesigning buildings to save the poor rainbow lorikeets. I would guess that even if they aren't an an endangered species, dealing with dead and injured birds daily is a nuisance. Simple measures like this, less nuisance in the long run.
- foobar1962 7y agoAll native wildlife in Australia is protected -- cute cuddly and deadly poisonous animals equally. Lizards, spiders and insects found in a home are often caught and released outside in the garden rather than killed (especially the huge huntsman spiders we get here which are harmless to humans). I'll even catch and release cockroaches rather than kill them.
- CobrastanJorji 7y agoYes, but they're not native to Western Australia. They were introduced by accident in the 1960s. They were also accidentally introduced to New Zealand in the 1990s by some idiot in North Shore who released large numbers of captive ones.