Worrying trend of native animals Australia: “increasingly in prevalence”

This week, Uproar swept through Australia after an American tourist was shot by his mother in the wild and shared the worrying encounter on social media.

Sam Jones, who also goes from Samantha Strable, triggered a widespread outrage after posting a video of herself that drove to a car with the fighting Wombat in his hands and later shared it with her 92,000 Instagram followers. The video inflamed the international conviction and many demanded that it were banished from the country.

Only days later, Jones left Australia voluntarily. Her departure followed another non -related incident in which a man supposedly stolen a young crocodile from a Darwin Wildlife Center.

CCTV film material caught a man who supposedly broke into the zoo and took the crocodile out of his housing. According to Wild Animals Australia's Cat Coake, these two incidents that come so close to each other stand out a worrying trend that believes that they are only the tip of the iceberg.

In conversation with Yahoo News, Coake said that both travelers and Australian nationals are increasingly using animals for social media content and often prioritize viral moments from the well -being of the creatures involved. She noticed that people are increasingly encouraged to handle living animals, sometimes taking into account their security or potential consequences.

“Prevalence is absolutely increasing,” she said, demanding state intervention. “It happens and we need harder punishments, but not only that, we have to enforce the existing punishments we have.”

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Coake emphasized the need for the authorities to invest more in the protection of wild animals and express frustration about the government's failure. “We are tired of listening to politicians who say” We want to protect these animals and we will do it ” – and nothing will ever be done,” she said.

When animals are illegally removed from the wilderness, the financial burden on the “non -financed” volunteer system for wild animals, which often has to spend tens of thousands of dollars in order to shift the animals. “We are basically calm to record the pieces,” said Coake.

“And that is when we can find these animals at all.” She continued that the governments have to take more determined measures to ask them to impose tougher punishments.

“Governments have to take measures and they have to be hard and much harder for people who commit animals, especially wild animals, and crimes, hard and much more difficult.”

Coake also emphasized that cruelty towards wild animals is “incredibly common”, and added that it is not the responsibility of the emergency teams to urge tougher punishments.

“It shouldn't be up to us to drive the government, which has the actual care and property of these animals, to take care of them,” she said.

The theft of wild animals is a growing problem in Australia and all over the world, with animals being used for fame on social media, illegal trade in pets and sometimes even for sale to the rental provider.

In addition to the trauma caused by the animals, these actions also endanger the sensitive balance of the ecosystems, is cruel and can be “so dangerous”.

When coake discovered on social media, he asked the public to report the content to the authorities and not to share it. Due to the reporting on the content and not parts, people can play an important role in the cessation of this exploitation, she said.

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