Your Local Wildlife

[Birdjaguar]

When she bought the house, much of the property was overrun by kudzu, which had killed off a lot of the local species. She wants to restore the area, so she's spent the last few falls methodically cutting back and poisoning kudzu. She's cleared the property, but it's still in the neighbours' so it'll require yearly culls to keep it away. She's also been removing other invasive plants and replanting with native flora. There's been a big shift in fauna as a result. There were lots of different kinds of birds and butterflies. There were also a lot of spiders...

Goats will eat enough kudzu to keep it in check if not destroy it. No poison needed. She can fence off areas and add a goat or two; then move the fencing to a new place.

 

[EgonSpengler]

An animal control officer from a nearby police dept is on the radio, providing advice on what to do if confronted by a wild turkey with an attitude. Can confirm, those things are [tools]. I see them in my neighborhood a lot, at the right times of the year.

 

[Ferocitus]

Australia needs more dangerous animals.

Komodo Dragons to Australia?
In a Feb. 2012 Nature paper, biologist David Bowman of Australia's University of Tasmania raises the
hypothetical possibility of introducing elephants and Komodo dragons to Australia. At first it
sounds mad, but what's happening now in Australia is a form of madness, too. Massive wildfires that
have become a regular and lethal fact of Australian life don't only represent climate change or
natural susceptibility, but the buildup of vegetation that until 50,000 years ago would have been
eaten by Australia's now-extinct megafauna. Elephants could fill that role again, writes Bowman.
"The idea of introducing elephants may seem absurd, but the only other methods likely to control
gamba grass involve using chemicals or physically clearing the land, which would destroy the
habitat," he writes. "Using mega-herbivores may ultimately be more practical and cost-effective."

Komodo dragons wouldn't do much for fires, but they would eat feral pigs and buffalo, the targets of
ongoing and largely unsuccessful animal control efforts.
https://www.wired.com/2012/02/assisted-migration/

 

[EgonSpengler]

Australia needs more dangerous animals.

Komodo Dragons to Australia?
In a Feb. 2012 Nature paper, biologist David Bowman of Australia's University of Tasmania raises the
hypothetical possibility of introducing elephants and Komodo dragons to Australia. At first it
sounds mad, but what's happening now in Australia is a form of madness, too. Massive wildfires that
have become a regular and lethal fact of Australian life don't only represent climate change or
natural susceptibility, but the buildup of vegetation that until 50,000 years ago would have been
eaten by Australia's now-extinct megafauna. Elephants could fill that role again, writes Bowman.
"The idea of introducing elephants may seem absurd, but the only other methods likely to control
gamba grass involve using chemicals or physically clearing the land, which would destroy the
habitat," he writes. "Using mega-herbivores may ultimately be more practical and cost-effective."

Komodo dragons wouldn't do much for fires, but they would eat feral pigs and buffalo, the targets of
ongoing and largely unsuccessful animal control efforts.
https://www.wired.com/2012/02/assisted-migration/

Didn't they try that already?

Spoiler :

 

[Birdjaguar]

Australia needs more dangerous animals.

Komodo Dragons to Australia?
In a Feb. 2012 Nature paper, biologist David Bowman of Australia's University of Tasmania raises the
hypothetical possibility of introducing elephants and Komodo dragons to Australia. At first it
sounds mad, but what's happening now in Australia is a form of madness, too. Massive wildfires that
have become a regular and lethal fact of Australian life don't only represent climate change or
natural susceptibility, but the buildup of vegetation that until 50,000 years ago would have been
eaten by Australia's now-extinct megafauna. Elephants could fill that role again, writes Bowman.
"The idea of introducing elephants may seem absurd, but the only other methods likely to control
gamba grass involve using chemicals or physically clearing the land, which would destroy the
habitat," he writes. "Using mega-herbivores may ultimately be more practical and cost-effective."

Komodo dragons wouldn't do much for fires, but they would eat feral pigs and buffalo, the targets of
ongoing and largely unsuccessful animal control efforts.
https://www.wired.com/2012/02/assisted-migration/

Better make sure first that the elephants will eat the plants you want to get rid of.

 

[GinandTonic]

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly, dont't ask me why...

 

[Samson]

I just saw a snake in my garden. I am fairly sure it is the non-venomous native grass snake (Natrix natrix).

 

[thetrooper]

I saw one too! Not in my garden but out in the forest. It's called buorm here in Norway.

 

[Narz]