invasive animals
Savannah cats banned
Savannah cats have now been banned in Australia by Environment Minister Peter Garrett after receiving over 500 public submissions on the issue.
Feral Thoughts
Feral Thoughts: the blog of the Invasive Animals CRC’s CEO Tony Peacock.
Savannah Cats (review)
For this Forum, Penelope Marshall led us through a work in progress on the current troubled importation of the Savannah Cat into Australia. This involved stepping back from the controversy to look at how this case depicts tangled webs of failing governance and deliberation, alongside the problematic consequences of humanities project of modernity and ethical dilemmas at the heart of how we think the world should be.
The cat, the dog and the python: The proposed importation of savannah cats into Australia
This seminar will explore several aspects of the current construction of the savannah cat controversy. Firstly, it will reveal the competing discourses evident in the savannah cat case as complex; if not irreconcilable. Secondly, it will reveal the nomenclature relied on within these discourses as equally complex. Thirdly, it will highlight suggested changes to the existing administrative powers of the national Vertebrate Pest Committee as being neither transparent nor accountable and therefore of concern.
