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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2011
DOI: 10.7882/FS.2011.039
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-4-3
... uncontrolled acts of aggravated cruelty , in causing death or serious disablement of multiple animals , some being so severely injured that it is cruel to leave them alive. Since exclusion netting provides orchardists with a wholly effective, non-lethal means of protecting crops, electrocution grid operations...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 32 (1): 76–100.
Published: 17 March 2014
.... conspicillatus killed in one season in one orchard, based on counts of adult bats found dead on the electrocution grid. Columns 2 & 3, respectively assume 50 and 70% of counted dead are female; columns 4 & 5, are as for columns 2 & 3, but assume that the counts of dead bats on the grid underestimate actual...
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Australian Zoologist (2022)
Published: 10 May 2022
...). Protection of commercial fruit crops from flying-foxes has historically involved lethal means such as shooting (Waples 2002), strychnine poisoning (Ratcliffe 1931) and electrocution grids (Martin 2011). Hall and Richards (2000) estimated that approximately 250,000 flying-foxes of various species were killed...
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Australian Zoologist (2022)
Published: 20 May 2022
... 1931), which was fortunate for the species population. In the late 20th Century, electrocution grids were also used, particularly in Queensland (McKinnon et al. 2002); however, this practice was controversial, with Martin (2011) concluding that they were not humane nor effective at protecting crops...
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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2011
DOI: 10.7882/9780980327243
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-4-3
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 26 (3-4): 130–141.
Published: 17 March 2014
... of the construction area. In Australian arid the cleared grids of seismic lines have led to soil compaction which inhibits revegetation, leading to erosion and siltation of important watercourses (O'l oughlin 1989). Although vegetation can regrow on utility corridors, it is usually maintained at an earlier...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (1): 38–54.
Published: 17 March 2014
... were in Ratcliffe's time in the 1930s. The two most common methods of control are shooting and electrocution (McHold and Spencer 1998). Since 1994, when protection of the Spectacled Flying Fox resumed after a 10 year period during which there was no legal restraint on their destruction, both methods...
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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2002
DOI: 10.7882/9780958608541
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-4-1