A South Australian listener - Ben Silverton - posed this question to us: "Why is that you can keep many varieties of cats, but not so many varieties of native birds, where the justification is that the birds cause damage to the environment?" 

Ben reckons cats (who he also loves) cause far more decimation than his birds would even if they did somehow get loose.

Another issue 'stuck in Ben's craw' is the laws that prevent him from moving to Victoria with his Noisy Miner birds, even though they're already present there in mass quantities and even though his birds are all male.

Forum Topic: 
Should We Be Allowed To Keep Native Birds? 
Should we be allowed to keep native birds? And why do we have so many different laws in each state?


 

Photo: Ben with Gargamel, Igor and Mowgli.
these photos (c) Ben Silverton