Save the Greens Beach Wallabies
Save the Greens Beach Wallabies
The issue
The Greens Beach Golf Club, at the mouth of the Tamar River are about to start killing wildlife, instead of looking at non-lethal methods of solving the wildlife population.
The Examinar Newspaper released a news story on the 25th of May stating the Golf course has sought a permit to slaughter the local wallabies that visit their greens.
Wallaby shooting is brutal and should never be an option. Inevitably not all wallabies will be killed cleanly and there will be stress and suffering. Pouch joeys will be bashed to death or decapitated (as per the Code*) and at-foot joeys will often escape to die slowly without their mothers. It is an appalling assault on our sensitive, beautiful wallabies and the Club needs to know the community won’t stand for it!
Environmentally friendly golf courses that ‘promote indigenous flora and fauna’ and ‘provide wildlife sanctuaries’ are considered best practice according to the Society of Australian Golf Course Architects**. Clubs that protect their wildlife can be proud of the important role they play in providing sanctuaries for Australia’s unique macropods. We need to urge the Greens Beach Golf Club to take this responsibility as wildlife stewards seriously, for the good of the animals, the community and their own reputation. The signatories strongly urge the Club to show progressive leadership and protect the wallabies under their care. Let’s urge Greens Golf Course to instead focus on non lethal alternatives and shift their focus to eco tourism as a second income.
We would love to see Greens golf course follow in the footsteps of the Anglesea Golf course in Victoria. They take advantage of these beautiful animals and now offer kangaroo tours, much to the delight of tourists and visitors to the club. Offering such tours of native animals in the wild in Tasmania would be a first for the state, and sure to be popular to interstate, locals, school groups and tourists alike!
Let's live in a kinder more compassionate Tasmania!
https://www.agrifutures.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20-126-digital.pdf
The issue
The Greens Beach Golf Club, at the mouth of the Tamar River are about to start killing wildlife, instead of looking at non-lethal methods of solving the wildlife population.
The Examinar Newspaper released a news story on the 25th of May stating the Golf course has sought a permit to slaughter the local wallabies that visit their greens.
Wallaby shooting is brutal and should never be an option. Inevitably not all wallabies will be killed cleanly and there will be stress and suffering. Pouch joeys will be bashed to death or decapitated (as per the Code*) and at-foot joeys will often escape to die slowly without their mothers. It is an appalling assault on our sensitive, beautiful wallabies and the Club needs to know the community won’t stand for it!
Environmentally friendly golf courses that ‘promote indigenous flora and fauna’ and ‘provide wildlife sanctuaries’ are considered best practice according to the Society of Australian Golf Course Architects**. Clubs that protect their wildlife can be proud of the important role they play in providing sanctuaries for Australia’s unique macropods. We need to urge the Greens Beach Golf Club to take this responsibility as wildlife stewards seriously, for the good of the animals, the community and their own reputation. The signatories strongly urge the Club to show progressive leadership and protect the wallabies under their care. Let’s urge Greens Golf Course to instead focus on non lethal alternatives and shift their focus to eco tourism as a second income.
We would love to see Greens golf course follow in the footsteps of the Anglesea Golf course in Victoria. They take advantage of these beautiful animals and now offer kangaroo tours, much to the delight of tourists and visitors to the club. Offering such tours of native animals in the wild in Tasmania would be a first for the state, and sure to be popular to interstate, locals, school groups and tourists alike!
Let's live in a kinder more compassionate Tasmania!
https://www.agrifutures.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20-126-digital.pdf
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Petition created on 27 May 2021