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Article: Stop all of this Robben Island madness, it is time to kill the bunnies.(News)
- Article from:
- Cape Times (South Africa)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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AG NO MAN. Just when it seemed as though sanity had prevailed, and the Robben Island authorities were quietly going ahead and getting rid of all the rabbits and most of the fallow deer on the island, the whole process gets suspended.
The Cape Argus reported yesterday that the pressure group, Animal Rights Africa, had laid a charge with police because, ARA alleged, the Robben Island Museum had contravened environmental legislation.
For heaven's sake! I grow weary of activist organisations that operate from an emotional, irrational vantage point and ignore all available science, in the process compromising biodiversity, ecosystem survival, aiding habitat ...