(c) The Wallaby

In Tasmania, Wallabies are also poisoned with 1080 every year. The 1080 is handed out free to farmers by National Parks and Wildlife service. The farmers say the wallabies must be poisoned, because they eat the foliage set aside for their sheep and cattle. However Deer farmers do not have this problem. Deer Farmers put up strong fences and the wallabies cannot get in. Sheep and Cattle farmers are not prepared to spend the money. Therefore wallabies go into the foliage area every year, are poisoned by the 1080 every year, together with other native animals, who either eat the poison or feed off the bodies; The surviving wallabies breed and next year they return to the foliage with their young, in order once again to be caught in the cycle of feeding, poisoning, death and 1080.