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Tannin wrote:No chance whatever. Dream on. Not one of your examples is relevant to the most-searched-for and most-fantasised-about creature in Australia. They are just the same sort of throw-stuff-at-the-wall bullshit that you cut and paste into the climate threads.
And of course you have evidence to support this outlandish statement?
The funny thing is, I've never said they're NOT extinct, only stated things that suggest they may not be.
I'm open to the suggestion, not arrogantly dismissing it with sarcastic and ignorant posts.
Not sure why you're taking this so personally, Skids! There's nothing arrogant about seeing a tall tale for what it is; if you read the Daily Mail or any of the British red-tops you'll see stuff like this published all the time (UFOs! Paranormal activity! Literally unbelievable scientific findings!); occasionally it slips into the Herald Sun or increasingly The Age, as that once proud newspaper descends further into infotainment.
I'd be as excited as anyone if I thought there was genuine evidence, even just circumstantial, suggesting that the Tasmanian Tiger was not extinct. But ultimately all we have here is a couple of guys with a handful of apparently ambiguous photos that they can't even show us. I like to consider myself pretty open-minded, but that doesn't mean I have to buy every yarn that gets run in the tabloids.
"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange
Tannin wrote:^ That's a slander on the many excellent institutions which go to enormous lengths to preserve endangered species. Old-fashioned 1940s-style zoos behave as you say. Thankfully, there are few of them left. Modern zoos primarily exist to preserve endangered species and regard paying visitors as a way to (a) generate income to pay for their real work, and (b) a way to spread the good word.
Example: the several Australian institutions which have spent years of effort on breeding the critically endangered Helmeted and Regent Honeyeaters. Thanks to their efforts, and to the efforts of thousands of volunteer habitat restorers (including me) we have been able to start releasing Regent Honeyeaters - once one of the most common birds in southern Australia, and always amongst the most spectacularly beautiful - back into the wild. Slowly, slowly, we are winning this one. But it's a hell of a job and there is a long way to go yet. Without wonderful organisations like Healsville, it would be impossible.
Another example: hopes for the endangered Southern Hairy-nose Wombat and the critically endangered Northern Hairy-nose Wombat - not so long ago THE most endangered large mammal on Earth - depend on (a) habitat restoration (as always) and (b) the development of the extremely difficult captive breeding techniques being pioneered by Healsville.
I think you're confusing zoos with sanctuaries (notice you stopped short of giving Healesville it's full name ie: Healesville Sanctuary) (you also spelt it wrong but that's for another thread)
Which zoo has been breeding & now releasing Helmeted and Regent Honeyeaters?
