Captain Planet & the Planeteers

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Originally Posted by Leo656

Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhh riiiiiigggggght, you all sound like that. Shut up.

Oi, nah mate! Don't come the raw prawn with me, I'll farken dawg ya, ya poof!

Originally Posted by MsMarvelDuckie

That, plus the Planeteers served to protect the five MAJOR continents, all of which are far more ecologically endangered than Aussie-land. (Something for which you should take pride in your home, penny! You guys "get it", ecologically speaking.)

Australia has a pretty good awareness of eco-responsibility, probably because we have so many unique animal species which can't be found anywhere else. That being said, I personally think there's a lot we can do to improve; we have the worst mammal extinction rate in the world. Unfortunately this is mostly down to introduced species screwing up the eco-system and feral carnivores and herbivores. IMO, laws need to be introduced to make sure that cats are kept inside (no exceptions), spaying/neutering must be mandatory and we need to come up with a humane solution to our feral cat problem - I'm a huge cat lover and we have a terrible feral cat problem over here; we've got an estimated 18 million feral cats (as opposed to a bit over 2 million household cats). It's an awful situation because you can't blame the cats for doing what they do - they have to hunt if they want to survive; at the same time, a lot of our native fauna aren't cut out to deal with a predator like them and the cats themselves have hardly any predators other than foxes (sometimes), wedge-tail eagles and dingoes. Although the cats did help with the rabbit problem, since they were another introduced species who messed things up for our local critters.

Feral foxes are another problem in that they're rough on the wildlife - feral foxes will sometimes eat feral cats but then the cats avoid the areas that have foxes which means the foxes then turn to the wildlife for food.

There's also the problem of our dingo population being utterly screwed - all of our pureblood dingoes are almost gone; if pure dingo populations were re-boosted it could help to control the cat and fox populations. If we also reduced the amount of livestock grazing, there would be more ground-cover for small mammals to hide from cats.

There's really no way to eradicate the feral cat population because there's no way to bait the entire continent (not to mention, that's completely inhumane and would kill other natural Australian predators). We have a lot of people who think that the solution is to just shoot all the feral cats - again, that's inhumane and ineffective. Australia is actually pretty unfriendly towards cats; we get a lot of really cruel cat-torture cases over here - they've basically been scapegoated as a result of human stupidity.

The Great Barrier Reef is also adversely being affected by climate change, though this is something that our government is actively working on, which is good.