This is a picture of an Australian man, with a cheesy smile, holding up, by its skin, a very large, dead, black feral cat from the area called Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, Australia (see map). He probably killed it.
He believes that the feral cat is becoming very large in Australia because of an evolutionary process and that it is killing a wide range of native wildlife species. He also believes that it has to be exterminated at every opportunity and the chosen method is the gun. Basically they just like shooting cats.
The photograph is from the Warddeken ranger group. I am sure it is protected by copyright but as the Australian newspaper, the Sydney Herald, has stolen photographs protected by copyright from PoC, in the past, and failed to respond to my requests to remove them, I feel free to publish the photo here.
In this photograph, which creature do you think looks the most dangerous and which one kills the most wildlife?
The answer is the human. He is responsible for far more wildlife destruction than the feral cat. That is a fact. However, they don’t see it.
The chairman of the ranger group, Dean Yirbarbuk says:
“We hope this project will help us to try and find a way to get rid of the cats.”
I have always said the Aussies have a thing about their feral cats. In general, they hate them but they fail to accept the fact that they introduced them to Australia and failed to act as responsible cat owners or managers. Now they want to slaughter them en masse. An example of typically blind, hypocritical humankind.
The Aussies completely disagree with trap-neuter-return as a way of controlling feral cat colonies and reducing them. They simply believe in shooting ’em dead. This sounds like Woodsman.
There is a parallel between the American and Australian “feral cat problem”. A significant percentage of the people of both countries like to kill feral cats.
There are more civilised ways to do things and the first step is to do a bit of introspective thinking. Humans are the root of the problem and of native wildlife damage. Only arrogance prevents an acceptance of that simple fact.
Gina-
I’m familiar with UCF and it is lesser than the University of Florida College of Medicine in its research.
Al Gore is a sweet man but daft in my opinion.
Hi Gina, I did this:
https://pictures-of-cats.org/plague-the-urgent-need-to-have-cats-roaming-our-streets.html
If you want to add or subtract just say.
Thanks Michael,
Here is an working link I found to replace the error generating one:
http://med.ucf.edu/news/2010/10/dr-daniell-presents-his-research-to-gates-foundation/
Wish you and your loving readers a wonderful day.
Dear Michael
I noticed the link to UCF college of medicine is not working!
Here is an email that includes the text of the link, I have sent it 3 yrs ago to a colleague. Please feel free to edit and cut, you also don’t have to publish I just want you to know what is going on here at the other side of the spectrum.. 🙂
Have a wonderful day.
By the way, it would be a good idea to share this info with Al Gore, he has a page on Facebook.
Thanks Gina. I’ll read it (slowly!) and see what I can do. Many thanks again.
Dear Micheal, here is more to appreciate your cats 🙂
I understand the reasons many governments want to keep the numbers of plague cases confidential, but to continue the systematic killing of street cats rather than helping them spread out in a difficult to escape areas; in Orange county Florida, there is only one brochure about cats in the animal services that deals with how to keep your neighbor’s cat off your yard rather than educating people about the importance of roaming free cats for the public health and man’s survival.
The World Health Organization had several conferences on Plague,
I was lucky to find info from an a relatively old one (over 8 yrs old), I am sure the numbers have tremendously increased since:
UN- WHO International meeting on prevention and control of plague 2006
http://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/WHO_HSE_EPR_2008_3w.pdf
WHO- Disease Outbreak News: plague
Plague
10 August 2010 Plague in Peru http://www.who.int/csr/don/2010_08_10/en/
11 August 2009 Plague in China
7 November 2006 Suspected plague in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
13 October 2006 – 14 June 2006 -15 March 2005- 18 February 2005 Plague in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
10 July 2003 – Plague in Algeria
2002 – Plague in Malawi
20 February 2002 – Plague in India
2001 – Plague in Zambia
The total number of human plague cases reported to WHO in 2002 by 13 countries was 1925, of which 177 were fatal. In 2003, 9 countries reported 2118 cases including 182 deaths. These
figures represent a decrease when compared with the annual average figures (2895 cases, 206 deaths) for the previous 10 years (1992–2001), when 28 956 cases with 2064 deaths were
reported from 22 countries. During that decade, 80.3% of cases and 84.5% of deaths were reported from Africa.
http://www.who.int/wer/2004/en/wer7933.pdf
NB: no numbers are reported from Australia and US although we know from media that they exist.
Here is another indication to the urgent need to have cats roaming in our street, Bill Gates funds a study at UCF to find an affordable vaccine for Plague; note the Plague is almost hidden in the email circulated:
Dr. Daniell Presents His Research to Gates Foundation
Professor Henry Daniell of the College of Medicine’s Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences was invited to spend a day at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle on October 1.
For the past several years, Dr. Daniell’s research at the Burnett school has centered on developing genetically modified plants to create low-cost vaccines and biopharmaceuticals. That work has yielded potential vaccines for a variety of the world’s most common infectious diseases like the black plague, cholera, malaria and metabolic disorders including diabetes and hemophilia. More..
News Release May 2011:
Dr. Daniell’s Gates Foundation Grant COULD Create Safer, Needle-free Vaccine
An innovative way of making vaccines by College of Medicine Microbiologist Henry Daniell has attracted a two-year $761,302 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation because the development has the potential to make vaccines less expensive, more effective and needle free.
SINCE 2000, Dr. Daniell, a professor at the college’s Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, has been developing a new method of creating vaccines using GENETICALLY ENGINEERED tobacco and lettuce plants to fight diseases like malaria, cholera, or plague.
The Gates Foundation grant will help Dr. Daniell develop a polio vaccine with Konstantin Chumakov, associate director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the Food and Drug Administration. Should Dr. Daniell’s vaccine receive FDA approval, it would open the door for the production of a variety of cheaper, more effective vaccines around the world….”
This is the link:
Note: We have not heard yet if this vaccine got the FDA approval, also note it is made of genetically modified substance!
It took Dr. Danielle 11 years of study and research which indicates the disease has been spread enough to alert the governments of great nations for the need of vaccine. Here we are in the 2014 and Australia and US East and West coasts are flagged Red on the Plague map around the world, yet animal services continue to kill the cats rather than protect them and educate people about the importance of their existence for man’s survival. I sometimes wish I lived in Old Egypt where the knowledgeable old Egyptians and Great Greek philosophers understood the importance of cat; they treated it with utmost respect. Cats saved Egypt from over population of rodents, spiders, Locust, reptiles including crocodiles and alligators..etc..
These are the same problems we face in the world nowadays, and selling poison by corporations to the public is not the answer, our water is so polluted, potable water became as expensive as milk if not more. I am not calling people to worshiping the cat like the Egyptians once did, but we need to understand that with man comes rodents and rodents can’t be stopped by poison, the only effective predator is the cat; that contrary to man, doesn’t kill to extinct rather to control the over population.
“Please feel free to modify or edit if you wish to publish this” Best Regards