Info on Platypus size and habitat.

[poddy mullet]

Yes there is proof traps placed in freshwater creeks in NSW have killed platypus.
Yet QWPS is telling us they should be banned!

Surely if they have trapped and killed platy's in NSW, then its bound to happen in Qld as well??

[murf]

Surely if they have trapped and killed platy's in NSW, then its bound to happen in Qld as well??

the trap in NSW was an Illegally used crab pot not a freshwater crayfish trap with the sized rings on the entrances


cheers Murf

[Marlin_Mike]

It has been on 4BC this afternoon. Wildlife Preservation Society, and Mr Williams, the author of the article, have admitted a photo used was a set up, a fake. They should be jailed for thsat and have, IMHO, lost all credibility.

[murf]

they have no real evidence so they just make it up to prove their warm fuzzy radical idealism

cheers Murf

[bondy99]

It has been on 4BC this afternoon. Wildlife Preservation Society, and Mr Williams, the author of the article, have admitted a photo used was a set up, a fake. They should be jailed for thsat and have, IMHO, lost all credibility.

Thanks Marlin_Mike

I knew it. It had to be codswallop

Thats exactly what we tried to tell Poddy Mullet, but Poddy Mullet thought it was true for ever in a day.

Yeah, I second that, they should also be heavily fined on top of having criminal charges.

Cheers

[Marlin_Mike]

Heard it listening to Nugget talking to Michael SMith on the afternoon programme.

Mike

[Mike Delisser]

Surely if they have trapped and killed platy's in NSW, then its bound to happen in Qld as well??

Yeh mate but it was in creeks down there, I don't doub't for 1 sec you could catch a platypus and all sorts of critters if you used them in a creek and maybe they should be banned in our creeks. The redclawers in SEQ use the traps in dams where there is minimal bycatch (and zero platypus so far) in traps with rings but the animal libers want a blanket ban in QLD.
cheers