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Originally posted by Moridin:
 It seems that we sometimes forget that we are not the only ones that have to live on this planet! It is disgusting when we overtake land for development driving out any animal species and destroying whatever plant species, and then have the nerve to do things like shoot the deer in the city b/c they are encroaching on our space 
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So true. You may not have heard of this but a few months ago a boy was killed by dingoes on Fraser Island off the east coast of Australia. There was a public outcry to destroy all the dingoes because Fraser Island is a popular tourist destination and it wasn't safe to have wild animals running lose with the tourists around. But the fact is, the dingoes natural food source (wild brumbies) had been destroyed by humans; tourists had been encouraging the hungry dingoes by feeding them and getting photographs with them, and there were signs all around the campsites to not feed dingoes, and not to let children walk around unsupervised. Now of course it is terrible when someone is killed, but the decision to kill dingoes in their native habitat, who killed because of human foolishness and ignorance because it is a tourist destination is ludicrous!