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Closure of Pastoral Leases; Returning to their natural state.
Topic Started: Wednesday 23-06-2010, 10:34 (155 Views)
Nightjar
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Kath,
You may have also noticed some of the NE Goldfields towns have new signs erected just outside the towns warning travellers that there are "Stray animals" on the roads. We saw a mob of these strays, 500kg + Brahman cattle just North of Leonora. I spoke with a Service Station attendent and said I was going to advise the Police of the danger to travellers.
He advised me not to bother because the shires have erected the above mentioned signs to ward off any litigation if someone happened to crash their vehicle either hitting or avoiding one of these animals.
"Why are these animals now straying onto the roads?"
"These animals are "strays" left behind when pastoral leases/ stations have shutdown, no one is taking responsibility for them as they move through the region looking for feed and water."
I believe it is only a matter of time before some unsuspecting traveller is killed after running into an animal of this size.
The department responsible for buying up these leases and returning them to the natural bush should be accountable to round up all stray animals.
This is not only in the interest of safety it is inhumane that these animals are left and will undoubtably suffer a long lingering death.
We see accounts on TV where animal owners in suburbia are prosecuted for mistreatment of animals why is this any different?


I will be preparing a letter in the near future to be presented to State Government outlining this gross negligence right across WA.
I am interested in hearing from anyone who has any information on this matter, whether it be about the Pastoral Leases or any near misses encountered with cattle on the roads.



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Peter

Good luck & safe travels
Peter


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Hi Nightjar,

Wouldn't you be better off harvesting the animals yourself. 500 kg of steak at $8 bucks a kilo..?..you do the math. This would be much more profitable than nugget shooting.
Good luck getting the government to do anything.
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Hallo Nightjar

Yes, I agree, straying animals is a great thread on regional roads and can create great damage to cars and people. You don't even have to drive fast. I have personally experienced this, but I was one of the lucky ones that came out unscratched. Others were not so lucky.

However, I was having a chat with a station owner in the Gindalpie area regarding the pastoral industry in general. He said that the wild dogs ran havvoc with their sheep and most of them have changed over to cattle. The current inside fences of the paddics is now not suitable for the cattle as they were of purpose for sheep only. The cattle is now free raoming the whole area of the station and they concentrate mainly around the waterpoints. For the pastorlists, the standard of the fences is also no concern any more because the cattle are easier to find and usually gets mustered with helicoptes and/or aeroplanes.

It obviously is because of the above that you find more cattle running around.

On a recent trip to Broad Arrow we saw about 20 cattle crossing the railway line just after the turn off to Ora Banda. Fortunately they seem to be scared of human activity and motor vechiles and were running in quite a distance. Nevertheless, it is good to bring this to our attention as to make everybody aware of the potential danger.

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Just found these picks of our last trip bush at Easter time,
the livestock roaming the roads around Kookynie is unbeleivable.
my daughter wanted to put the pony in the car and take it home, it was sad they were so friendly
and seemed to want to come with us, cattle are in shocking condition :-/

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Hi all,
Have written the letter to several different government departments and the RSPCA, have already been acknowledged that the matter is being treated seriously and will be informed of the outcome.
It is a start but won't hold my breath waiting for a solution to the problem.

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Peter
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