introduction
The wallaby is a pest that has a huge appetite for grass and other bush. It is probably out there at this very moment eating away at our native plants somewhere in new zealand right now.The wallaby is a hard pest to deal with because there are no traps currently invented for it and poisoning it with 1080 will also kill other native animals which we don't necessarily want or do we?so that is what this pest inquiry will be looking at today.The main points that we will be looking at today are how we can kill it or if we should.
p1
The problem that we have is that our native animals are running out of food because the wallaby is eating it so then they eventually have to find a way to go somewhere else or they die of starvation.so the main cause of this problem is the wallaby eating everything and then moving onto another Forest to eat all that native bush,plant and little trees as well as other stuff.so that is the main cause of our problem today all the plants are disappearing so the native animals are dying either from starvation or moving forests.
But the wallaby is not the only pest animal that eats or native bush and plants so maybe if the wallaby is eating it all maybe all the other pests that are eating the die from starvation so maybe we leave the wallaby alone? who knows or do we kill it and have to deal with the other pests.
p2
So that was the main cause of the problem now the main consequence is that our population of native animals is going down a little bit.The reason why we are saying a little bit is because not a lot of animals would die from this because most of the native animals that rely on the native bush and plant as food sources can normally fly.So that only leaves the injured ones and all animals like cows and sheep who graze on grass and rely on it as a food source and the one out of a million bird that is injured will die and it is not cows that live on a farm it is the cows that are not on a farm.But sometimes it is a good thing because other pests eat it to so maybe the wallaby is doing part of our job? Who knows.
p3
There are so many various solutions to dealing with this problem like make a trap for them or use poison like 1080 or don't deal with the wallaby? The problems with some of these solutions are stuff like the trap only targets the one pest so that can work but there are other pests out there so it is not that effective.the problem with 1080 poison is that it will kill all animals including the native ones because it can't be seen or smelt or tasted so it will kill all animals by doing that and that is not what we want to do.but not dealing with the pest is kind of cruel but it might be the right solution because not dealing with it deals with other pests because some of the would also eat the grass and native bush so it is kind of the right thing to do.but also we could just control the numbers of them by hunting them every once and awhile.
P4
So my favourite solution to the problem is the traps because it targets the wallaby but it doesn’t kill anything else so it might be the most effective solution to the problem. But then again there are other pests that eat the plant but then again they don't eat it like the wallaby so the traps are the most effective way to kill the wallaby.The only problem is that there are no traps currently made to catch the wallaby not to mention the fact that they move from city to city so you would have to find out were the wallaby is and put the traps the instead of only one place because they will move and the regain their population and hit us again by hitting the native animal population which is what were trying to prevent so what we need to do is invent a trap for the wallaby.
Conclusion
So in conclusion my answer to the problem is to make a trap for the wallaby.So lets do a quick recap on the three main points 1.the wallaby is killing animals by eating there food so they die of starvation.2The main consequence is our native animal population is going down a bit.3.THe various solutions are make a trap or 1080 them or don't deal with them
Or hunt them every once and a while.today we answered how we deal with them if we deal with them but the question still stands do we/don’t we deal with the wallaby?