Robben Island animals

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

Another truely South African story - animals starving at a World Heritage Site. Incompetence? What's that?

Robben Island's natural environment is in crisis, with animals including bontebok, springbok, fallow deer and rabbits starving to death because of a lack of vegetation on this World Heritage Site

And environmentalists are blaming neglect by the Robben Island Museum, which manages the island.

The problem is mainly the result of an explosion of the feral rabbit population, which is eating everything in sight.


Environmentalists are horrified by this state of affairs, and are blaming the Robben Island Museum for the disaster because it allegedly ignored warnings given three years ago about the ecological threat posed by the rabbits.

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[Frankie]

Reading the subject line, the first thing that came to mind was that's a bit harsh referring the the ANC as 'animals' , then I read 'rabbit' and the picture of Mbeki holding Bob Mugarbage's hand came to mind.

On a serious note - just another incompetence.

 

[Surv0]

Let me at em... Ill hunt me a wabbit

Those things are fun to shoot when they are staring into your headlights!!
just get a couple hunters over there to start the culling process and donate all wabbit droppings and tropheys to whever wants em bet u could make some nice wabbit stew

 

[Ady]

Whats with the new scourge infecting us where government ignores all warnings. Rabbits eating everything, Eskom, Fuel. The list goes on and on?

I could take a couple of rabbits off their hands for them.

 

[diesel]

I sense a business oportunity, anyone interested?

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=qw1029337562887B215

 

[Aphrael]

Am I ever going to get that Metallica song (Kill the Wabbit) out of my head?
On a serious note, wtf is going on? Eskom, fuel, Robben Island ... what next?

 

[Just_Ice]

Let me at em... Ill hunt me a wabbit

Those things are fun to shoot when they are staring into your headlights!!
just get a couple hunters over there to start the culling process and donate all wabbit droppings and tropheys to whever wants em bet u could make some nice wabbit stew

Not bugs! Leave him alone! He... he... hes my fwend!

 

[Nerfherder]

They should jsut introduce some small preditors... like snakes etc

 

[xrapidx]

They should jsut introduce some small preditors... like snakes etc

Nah... cause then you need to introduce hawks (or something) to control them, etc, etc.

I'll go on the wabbit hunt thanks...