Today I participated in an online discussion based around how I felt about the view from a group of people known as: Nature Watcher's. This group of people believe that 'Animals who are called pests by the predator free groups should be treated with more respect'.
Animals that are called ‘pests’ by the Predator Free groups should be treated with more respect. These pests have already adapted to climbing trees and eating chick eggs. However, this does not mean that we should wipe out all pests using 1080 poison drop in the places that they roam around. These pests are use to the habit of hunting chick eggs and killing birds. It is a part of their life that we cannot take away from them. Although, I do believe that bird's lives certainly matter but is it really fair that we are killing a substantial amount of other living animals just for the safety of only these birds? We can prevent the extinction of these native birds and animals but also at the same time we can also prevent these pests from being poisoned and killed. For a solution to this problem, I personally think that we can build separate sanctuaries, where the birds can live a similar lifestyle to how they would have lived in the wild while the pests can live their normal life, without being poisoned by 1080 pellets. Not only do the pests die from 1080 poison but any other living animal that come in physical contact with this substance can result to a very slow and torturous death and the reactions to the poison include respiratory failure, seizures and rapid labored breathing and to think about it, it is an absolutely awful experience that any innocent animal has to go through. All animal lives matter and I believe that there is always a solution to our problems if we all work together as New Zealanders to help these animals.
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