FW: [alqld] group promote 'shoot a dingo tours'

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Animal Lib Queensland [alibqld]

Wednesday, 13 June 2001 14:36

animal.liberation; alqld; JanOliver

[alqld] group promote 'shoot a dingo tours'

 

 

In a totally tastless move the BACKPACKERS TRAVEL CENTRE are promoting

'shoot a dingo tours' using the greenpeace logo (no less).

 

The ad reads: " Shoot a dingo tour - just think about it - only 20 left "

 

Please write or phone them and complain loudly!

 

Tell them:

 

Dingoes, like all animals, have a right to live free from human abuse and

exploitation.

What the Queensland Government has done to the Fraser Is dingoes is wrong

because the dingo is being blamed for human misuse of the natural

environment. The abuse of dingoes as a tourist attraction has led to

excessive numbers of campers littering and degrading the world heritage

listed national park, and creating the conditions that have lead to dingo

attacks. It is a PEOPLE problem: too many people, too carelessly enforced

rules on feeding. People can and do sucessfully live with savage animals -

as they do with lions and bears in other tourist destinations - without

having to eradicate the very thing they come to see to remove the danger.

 

Using dingo killing as an adversting gimmick sends the wrong message to

tourists - we do not want to be seen as nation of wildife exterminators.

Dingoes are native animals and deserve the respect we give our fauna else

where. Promoting their deaths as 'fun' does nothing to improve human

relationships with the natural world. Whether this advertisment is of a

satirical nature or not, the abuse and demonisation of dingoes by the state

and landholders is the result ot human mismanagment.

 

Our continued disposal of problems by culling is a matter of economic

expedience. It is a symptom of a state government that will not spend on

the environment, while pumping cash into football stadiums, corporate and

agricultural 'welfare', all of which do not contribute to conservation,

indeed many of which increase environmental degradation like mining and

monoculture industrialised farming.

 

Backpackers travel centres:

 

Sydney: P33 Imperial Arcade, Pitt St Mall (488 Pitt St) - 02 9231 3899

Melbourne: shop 1/250 Flinders St, Melbourne (377 Little Bourke st) - 03

9654 8477

Cairns: cnr Sheilds & the Esplanade, Cairns - 07 4031 0334

Brisbane: 138 Albert St, Brisbane - 07 3221 2225

Perth: 223 William St, Northbridge - 08 9228 1877

Adelaide: 115 Waymouth St, Adelaide - 1800 020 007

London: 415 North End Rd, Fulham, London +440 207 385 2900

 

Kim Stewart,

President

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Animal Liberation Queensland

PO Box 463

Annerley, Qld 4103

 

http://www.powerup.com.au/~alibqld

Ph: 3255 9572

Fax: 3392 6102

 

 

 

 

 

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