Yeah Koalas have no interest in controlling their own numbers, so generally when populations get too large you go and sterilize a few thousand to keep them from just eating themselves out of habitat. If you don't get them early, then you have to go cull them before you end up ankle deep in rotting marsupial.Koumei wrote:We frequently have to cull lots of things out of overpopulation, yeah. That said, I don't know if that could have been avoided by government intervention - resettlement, cutting back on logging and so on.
In all likelihood though, Environment Minister Greg Hunt* just needed them to die so he could maintain his erection. Because he's a bit of a Greg Hunt like that.
*Yes, his name is Cockney rhyming slang. Yes, for the word you're thinking.
And despite Hunt's unenviable reputation, he's the federal environment minister and this was a state cull. You'd have to blame Lisa Neville.