Allowing an animal to grow to numbers that ruin the habitat is bad for all the animals living there. Whether they are insects.....or the animals that eat insects or whatever.
Decisions like these should be made by biologists and not become political......and should never be decided on the cuteness of the animal.
Would there be an outcry if they wanted to thin out the population of crocodiles or rats or snakes.......I don't think so.
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I myself am getting sick of all these bleeding heart animal rights activists who butt in where they really shouldn't be - our great Canadian Seal Hunt, culling of deer, kangaroos, etc. whatever the case may be.
There's a reason why these things are ordered! It's not just plants and animals and insects, it's an entire ECO SYSTEM being threatened, and at the end of the day, the 'roos would still die - how would they live without the plants if they die off? With no insects to pollinate new plants, or however the ecosystem works over there, it would wither and die, as would everything dependant on said ecosystem. Isn't it not fairer to shoot them (quickly, one would hope) as opposed to letting them die slowly of starvation and dehydration? Let's not forget in some cases, these plants supply not only food to animals, but water as well....
I could go on and on, but I won't. People will either get it, or they won't and that fact won't change, same as the facts won't change some people's minds/opinions/beliefs.
I'm not saying I condone full on slaughter of a species, but a controlled cull, yes, otherwise, everything will collapse on itself.
I'm just waiting for the day when those smurfers get the seal hunt banned. I'm praying I'm not around to watch the fallout that will happen when you allow one of the major predators of the seas populate out of control. Think fishing is bad now? just wait and watch. Same as Australia struggled for years for viable farming - you think those 6,000 'roos once faced with starvation won't then raid farms and outlying areas? etc...
Honestly. We all need to sit back and let the people indigenous to the area do what needs to be done, and put our hearts in a corner until it is done.