YOUR SAY: Should Aussies be allowed to keep native animals as pets? Paleontologist Mike Archer is pushing for changes to allow residents to keep native Australian fauna as pets, saying 'wildlife is increasingly no longer safe in the wild.' 9News MORE:
Some think native wildlife should remain, as the name suggests, in the wild.
"The big problem we all have to face is that wildlife is increasingly no longer safe in the wild," Archer told 9News.com.au. "The ones that do go extinct are the ones that we assumed, somehow foolishly, should be just left on the other side of the fence to they'll look after themselves when demonstrably, that's not what's happening. They're declining."Drastic measures must be taken, according to Mr Archer, or else several species face extinction. He is pictured here with his western quoll.
"Domestic animals have been selectively bred for hundreds or even thousands of years to ensure they have behavioural and physiological qualities that make them appropriate companions. "One that gave me the greatest pleasure was a western quoll – which should be called a central quoll because they were once in all the mainland states of Australia, until our cats drove them out – which I had for about five years.
Archer argued against letting species go extinct because humans don't consider it "proper" to have a relationship with them.
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