Too long, but what about integrated pest management? Something they tech in pest management circles.
At least try, people are willing to pay. People are willing to try.
I know you have hundreds of tons of experience in culling both large and small pest animals but some of what I have seen doesn’t work either.
I understand your comment but part of my post was trying to explain or geography and where these pests roam isn’t where we were fighting fires the last season that was unprecedented or unrecorded but has come to the attention of international members
Probably one reason why we have these problems in Australia to begin with.
These issues are being "work-shopped" in classrooms by "intellects" and academics as opposed to bush-people with bush knowledge and experience.
People ARE NOT WILLING TO PAY. PERIOD !
A good friend of mine has been operating in the desert regions, in co-operation with Indigenous groups, offering guided hunters opportunity for camel hunting for close on ten years now.
He books, on average, four to five hunts per year and at least three or four of those will be from International hunters, not Aussie hunters.
Reason being is that unless you can offer a hunt for $25/day it will always be too expensive for the local market.
Not here to trash my countrymen, but the facts are the facts.
Recreational shooting is not the answer, this problem has escalated to the point beyond where any effort other than intense, concentrated commercial culling on large scale will have any real impact on the number of these animals.
I can tell you that our Government is already aware of what they are facing and the only thing stopping them is the hundreds of millions of dollars required to get the job done.
They will NEVER get rid of them all, but even to get close to dropping the number of the overall population will require a cull in the order on scale bigger than anything we have seen here in this country since the BTEC program in Northern Australia several decades ago.