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And here's Professor David Bellamy's short, succinct summation of her thesis ......
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The SSAA sought out Professor David Bellamy while he was in Australia.
He was asked to comment on recent media reports including the Catherine Schuller thesis on the ethics of hunting.
A question was put to him:
David, when you come across someone who describes animal management practices such as pest hunting, and I quote, as
"sort of a fascist rationale because it is scapegoating these animals",
what’s your reaction to that?
This is his response:
Well, those people don’t really know what they’re talking about.
You could say Australia’s going to turn into a place like the British Isles with very, very little left in the way of any thing natural
at all, and even then we have to manage it to keep our wildlife going. We have to get rid of feral animals - or it’s going to
collapse and people won’t live there. I don’t believe especially in places like Australia that people can live here on their own
with green concrete.
In Britain if you want to see all the animals and plants that should be there you go to a well managed hunting estate, so to me a
good gamekeeper is the best news the environment has got and he should be lauded. They’re the heroes of the countryside. .
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