Yet again we see that the meddling of do-gooder fools who feel
compelled to control everything does nothing but harm. From Down
Under:
It seemed like a good idea at the time: Remove all the feral cats
from a famous Australian island to save the native seabirds.
But the decision to eradicate the felines from Macquarie island
allowed the rabbit population to explode and, in turn, destroy much of
its fragile vegetation that birds depend on for cover, researchers
said Tuesday.
Removing the cats from Macquarie "caused environmental
devastation" that will cost authorities 24 million Australian dollars
($16.2 million) to remedy, Dana Bergstrom of the Australian Antarctic
Division and her colleagues wrote in the British Ecological Society's
Journal of Applied Ecology.
That's okay. Taxpayers have lots of money.
"Our study shows that between 2000 and 2007, there has been
widespread ecosystem devastation and decades of conservation effort
compromised," Bergstrom said in a statement.
The unintended consequences of the cat-removal project show the
dangers of meddling with an ecosystem — even with the best of
intentions — without thinking long and hard, the study said.
"The lessons for conservation agencies globally is that
interventions should be comprehensive, and include risk assessments to
explicitly consider and plan for indirect effects, or face substantial
subsequent costs," Bergstrom said.
Or better, moonbat meddlers could avoid "substantial subsequent costs"
altogether by leaving the ecosystem alone. Better still, they could do
the same for the economy before they plunge us into a depression with
their deranged bailouts and "stimulus" pork packages.
http://www.moonbattery.com/
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