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FarCenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 10:48 AM
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Thousands of rotting camels polluting Australia's Outback
From: AAP December 03, 2009 3:27PM
http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/thousands-of-rotting-camels-polluting-australias-outback/story-e6frfq80-1225806650495

THE rotting carcasses of thousands of wild camels who have died of thirst in Australia's desert Outback are polluting vital waterholes and sacred sites, officials said.

The Central Land Council, which administers Aboriginal land in the nation's arid centre, said the corpses were poisoning water supplies, describing scenes of mass carnage.

"Some fall into waterholes and won't be able to get out so they'll rot within the water, others will chase the last remains of any water in these areas and start to compete with each other,'' the council's land management chief David Alexander said.

"We're ending up with these grisly scenes of camels in every stage of life, death and decay around waterholes."

Thousands of pools, creeks and other water supplies for local indigenous tribes were rendered undrinkable by the decay, with a "significant health risk'' when they were refilled by rain, he said.

Without significant rainfall, Mr Alexander said tens of thousands more camels in the drought-gripped region faced a similar fate, with dire environmental and cultural consequences.

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Meanwhile officials are preparing for an aerial cull of 3000 of the humped pests near the remote Northern Territory community of Docker River with helicopters and snipers.

Protracted drought drew the camels into the township in search of water, leaving some residents cowering in their homes as they smashed through water mains and invaded the airstrip.

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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 11:09 AM
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1. Don't worry. Burger King will get to them eventually.
You want fries with that?
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 11:14 AM
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2. what global warming?
so hot and dry for even camels .... :wow:

BTW they never should have been there like rabbits, cane toads, and feral domestic cats.
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era veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 11:28 AM
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3. Or starlings or kudzu, or the many other invasive things here.
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 11:54 AM
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5. bush honeysuckle, purple loosestrife, norway maple, & wild boar .....
... and so many more.
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era veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 12:10 PM
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6. Lots & lots more
Edited on Fri Dec-04-09 12:11 PM by era veteran
I am on a honeysuckle & euonymus vendetta at the moment. Kudzu is now only about 60 miles south of Lexington now. Fight the invaders!
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 12:14 PM
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7.  Woody plants ...... cut at ground level and treat cross cut w/ a 50%
round up mix. Get the garlic mustard too ..... late summer spray w/ round up ....
always replant w/ native plants ..... wild ginger is a great plant.


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era veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 12:24 PM
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8. I am an organic crazy
I could never use poison. I do dig them out by the roots though. Kudzu I am not too familiar with other than knowing they have a tremendous root. With exception of my leather leaf Japanese Maple I am removing all non indigenous plants from my property. It is not easy. Peace, Richard
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 01:09 PM
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9. I am an ecologist ..... round up is just a tool and if used right very safe.
The real toxins are the nonnative plants ..... boiling water and horticultural vinegar can be used in
some cases.
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era veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 03:46 PM
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11. I saw a Southern States Salesman lick DDT in the'60's he is dead now.
I use boiling water a lot.I could not bring myself to use a chemical that kills everything. Who knows if future science will ban roundup? I am a Rodale gardener.
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vadawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 03:49 PM
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12. rofl, for some reason this just made me rofl, my uncle ate a carrot back in the 50's and hes dead
too, its almost monty pythonesque...
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era veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 04:31 PM
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13. My bad I should have made it clearer for you
He is dead now but he was also dead in 1971. Maybe your uncle had good old chemically grown carrots.
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vadawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 04:42 PM
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14. lol its still funny mate, he licked in the 60's died in 71, i presume from DDT or was there a car
crash involved,
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era veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 05:30 PM
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17. Rotten gut from cancer
Southern States is a farmers co-op they sold a lot of other great chemicals back then.
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vadawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 05:32 PM
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18. dude i know southern states, i have an account there..... hell ill christmas shop there as well...
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era veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 06:27 PM
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19. I've done that
We even have a brand new S.S. close to my place. Great store. Later
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bergie321 Donating Member (797 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 11:45 AM
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4. officials are preparing for an aerial cull
Sarah Palin's book tour is going down under?
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onethatcares Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 04:46 PM
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15. hell, maybe she can go there and
talk to the aborigines.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 01:24 PM
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10. This really sucks, all those animals suffering...n/t
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 04:47 PM
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16. I'm going there in Feb--hope they don't stink too bad...
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