Imagine explaining to your great grand children how you lived in an era that lost over half of the mammals that became extinct through out the world, in the last two hundred years.

What will you tell them when they ask you, “What did a dingo look like in the wild?” will you say nothing and just let them turn their heads away with a tear in their eyes or would you justify your guilt by  saying “What could I do, I lived in the city, I couldn’t do anything”.

Apathy will be the biggest killer of our native fauna in the years to come. What people don’t realise is that as humans we also need the environment to survive, it has taken millions of years for the earth to create and hold onto life, humans with there arrogance, think we can manipulate the environment to suit us, WRONG, the environment is just not the present but it is for millions of years to come. What we do today, can still have an effect on the environment in hundreds of years in the future.

The shame we all must bear is how a small minority of people can shoot, trap and poison the pure dingo into extinction. Some state still use steel jawed traps which rips into the flesh and breaks bones on the legs of the dingo, then because of the dingo’s timid nature hearing the sound of the chain rattling on the trap panics which rips more of the flesh, a long and agonising wait for the dogger to check their traps, this could take 2 days or longer. With any luck the dingo is killed on the first shot.

Attitudes of large companies and their managers are also shameful when you have companies running 200,000 head of cattle across the top of Australia and justify their aerial baiting programme because they lose a few hundred new born calves to dingoes. There is evidence to show after a poisoning programme the influx of transient dingoes into the area does cause problems with domestic stock but if no poisoning took place the stable dingo group has little impact on the stock.

If you are a shareholder of these companies I ask of you, at the next  meeting  of shareholders ask the chairman what they are doing to protect the dingo, after all they are potentially losing your money, if they are controlling the dingoes with the wrong methodology.