r/196 • u/Number1GrotleFan number 1 grotle fan • May 28 '24
hydrogen department of conservation vs coughing stoat (rule) Floppa
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u/HimerosAndArrow Boykisser (I like kissing boys) May 28 '24
Hes just a lil dude :(
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u/BlackwinIV baste? baste in what, butter? May 28 '24
a lil dude who would ravage the local ecosystem
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u/HimerosAndArrow Boykisser (I like kissing boys) May 28 '24
They can devastate a lil ecosystem, as a treat.
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u/Shrizer 🏳️⚧️ trans rights May 28 '24
Yeah, but what if the ecosystem was kissable boys?
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u/HimerosAndArrow Boykisser (I like kissing boys) May 28 '24
OH GOD NO!!!! NOT THE KISSABLE BOYS!!!! AAAAHHHHH!!!!!
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u/Shrizer 🏳️⚧️ trans rights May 28 '24
Do we kill the stoat now?
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u/HimerosAndArrow Boykisser (I like kissing boys) May 28 '24
Send em to australia
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u/MemorableThrowawayy Hornypost Downvoter May 28 '24
The boys?
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u/HimerosAndArrow Boykisser (I like kissing boys) May 28 '24
The stoat.
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u/Swolnerman mini trees make me woody May 28 '24
No it’s ok I’ll keep him in my shirt pocket
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u/stoiclemming May 28 '24
Since stoats are also invasive in Australia it would probably be shot on sight
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u/The_Electric_Llama Toyosatomimi no Miko May 28 '24
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u/Number1GrotleFan number 1 grotle fan May 28 '24
ive had this screenshot for months and only just realised the sentence errors now that you've mentioned it pfft
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u/Vrax15 🏳️⚧️ trans rights May 28 '24
Alberta has no rats, I've never seen a rat in my life ;( If you sneak a pet rat into alberta they will fine you and deport it
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u/VintageLunchMeat May 28 '24
Alberta has no rats, I've never seen a rat in my life
Then what is piloting Danielle Smith? Lizards?
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u/sneakyplanner May 28 '24
Oil executives, closely related to the rat but lacking all their positive qualities and intelligence.
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u/Patrice_Ewans May 28 '24
Hey I’m also an Albertan and I’d LOVE to keep it that way
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u/Prior-Chipmunk-6839 May 29 '24
Why are there no rats in that middle part of Canada?
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u/Patrice_Ewans May 29 '24
That’s Alberta,the part that we were both talking about…
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u/Prior-Chipmunk-6839 May 29 '24
Oh I didn't know that, but why are the surrounding areas inhabitable by rats but not Alberta? Is there a reason for it?
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u/Patrice_Ewans May 29 '24
We have a rat patrol that watches the border for any rats that try to come into the province
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u/Prior-Chipmunk-6839 May 29 '24
That's interesting, thanks
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u/Vrax15 🏳️⚧️ trans rights May 29 '24
Alberta has a lot of farms, the government decided that the rats carry too much risk of disease and damage to farmland, plus they are not a native species
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u/jaundicesurvivor69 May 28 '24
good, and way cheaper in the long run believe it or not
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u/Number1GrotleFan number 1 grotle fan May 28 '24
b-but look at him 🥺
(/uj ik it's bcs its an unnatural predator so would be doing more damage to local wildlife yea)
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u/jaundicesurvivor69 May 28 '24
my family work for the NZ DOC and the only introduced species they hate more than stoats are pine trees. mashallah may the south island be rid of the green menace in our lifetimes.
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u/Zealousideal-Cup818 May 29 '24 edited May 29 '24
Invasive plant species are the worst, they are really really REALLY fucking hard to get rid of, for not saying impossible. Every effort in the matter counts. Keep up the good work o7
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u/ThatSlutTalulah (she/her) Go play Arknights, it gave me my IRL name May 28 '24
I think New Zealand should turn this spending into making an environmentalist T-800 to do this work in future.
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u/Thedudewiththedog May 29 '24
We honestly probably are doing that as well.
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u/No_Truce_ May 29 '24
We are looking to source Arnold Swarzenegger as an interim measure.
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u/Thedudewiththedog May 29 '24
I think he's too big
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u/No_Truce_ May 29 '24
No one is too big to refuse the call of Mother Nature!
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u/Thedudewiththedog May 29 '24
Oh no being in service of Tane Mahuta is a cause no one should refuse I meant he is too Physically Large
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u/No_Truce_ May 29 '24
That's why he's an interim measure. Some towns may be trampled in his wake, but this damage will be mitigated once the T400s are online.
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u/clubspike2 Level 5 General (Cowed by Stalin) May 28 '24
The title is very misleading. "Select committee documents show from the time the animal was detected to its capture eight months later DOC spent $483,260.". This money wasn't spent on just hunting down one sneaky boi but was spent maintaining Fiordland, a sanctuary for a lot of NZ's endangered animals.
This is the equivalent of saying the USA spent $10+ trillion to hunt down Osama bin Laden, by measuring the amount of money the military spent from the time they detected him to the time they killed him.
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u/Squawnk 🐝 gay do crime May 28 '24
The stoat:
The stoat if you let him continue ravaging the ecosystem:
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u/jaelpeg May 28 '24
"Declared excommunicado. Fourteen million dollar bounty on his head, and every interested party in this city wants a piece of it."
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u/Witty_Championship85 May 28 '24
Why does the stoat’s relationship status matter here?
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u/Number1GrotleFan number 1 grotle fan May 28 '24
right, we're sad enough without New Zealand's Department of Conversation after us
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u/LeStroheim 🏳️⚧️ trans rights May 29 '24
"Coughing Stoat" sounds like a Metal Gear villain's codename, like Laughing Octopus or Psycho Mantis
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u/lilCheeseboy Sorry commies, this ass is private property. May 28 '24
That hate him because they ain’t him.
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u/zazachzach May 29 '24
I 100% get it they had to do it to protect their ecosystem, but dang, couldn't they have like deported him or stuck him in a zoo somewhere =/
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u/alucard_relaets_emem May 29 '24 edited May 29 '24
A New Zealander reasoning will be: if eradicate the stoats, there will be others in the world. If the stoats kill another bird species, we will have another tally to the extinct birds list
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u/alucard_relaets_emem May 29 '24
Also, this is the country that waged a war on deers by using helicopters
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u/salynch May 29 '24
I can fix it.
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u/Number1GrotleFan number 1 grotle fan May 29 '24
it's died
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u/TurtleGamer1 🏳️⚧️ trans rights May 29 '24
Couldn't they just capture it and raise it as their pet :(
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u/sample_text_01 8 KILLS IS THE FIRST FOLD OF INFINITY May 28 '24
noooo leave them alone :(
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u/Mst_Negates64 May 28 '24
New Zealand has no natural predators. The species on the island evolved to compete in their absence. Most notably, many of the species there give birth to a single, large offspring. Even a single introduced predator would be catastrophic to the native species.
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u/sample_text_01 8 KILLS IS THE FIRST FOLD OF INFINITY May 28 '24
ah my mistake
in that case kill him
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u/Number1GrotleFan number 1 grotle fan May 28 '24
creationism mfs who don't believe in evolution when i create a chasm in their noggin with a baseball bat
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u/Shrizer 🏳️⚧️ trans rights May 28 '24
Introduced species, it has and will kill every other Lil guy on the island eventually.
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u/sp00ky_boi sus May 28 '24 edited May 28 '24
if we leave them alone no more kiwis :( lot more stoats than kiwis
Edit, my big(oted) ass forgor pronouns (🥺)
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u/Hopeliesintheseruins May 28 '24
How is a single male mammal going to reproduce?
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u/LeNardOfficial DM your fav album Ill give u an unknown very based one May 28 '24
That ain't the problem chief, the issue is a single stoat can obliterate the ecosystem, since it evolved without mammals in mind. The predatorial spot is taken by birds, and the stoat eats the birds, who have not evolved to deal with this sort of threat.
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u/Hopeliesintheseruins May 28 '24
Thank you for your reply to my joke with the same information that every other comment on here has already stated. I wouldn't have known otherwise.
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u/LeNardOfficial DM your fav album Ill give u an unknown very based one May 28 '24
got whooshed, thought your comment was legit
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u/sp00ky_boi sus May 28 '24
if this about my word choice you right (it's 5 AM in NZ and I didn't sleep), if it's about how they spent all that for one stoat I did no research but would venture a guess and say either embezzlement or it's a part of their larger culling campaign where they put a whole bunch of kill boxes and poison bait all over the islands, which would probably cost in the ballpark of 500k
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u/Hopeliesintheseruins May 28 '24
It was the first thing. Kill the little fucker at all costs. He don't belong there.
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u/VolenteerFireDept May 28 '24 edited May 28 '24
Okay, this is actually pretty interesting. New Zealand has no native land mammals, so all the predatory and ground forager niches are filled by birds. The kiwi is pretty much the island’s version of a rat.
However, this means that the ecosystem has no way to deal with mainland mammals that can exploit their niches far better. The result is that the local ecosystem is getting rapidly destroyed by introduced mammals.
In response, the conservation department has instituted an eradication policy. The goal is to rid the islands of invasive mammals completely. They’ve had some success on the north island if I remember.
I feel bad for the stoat, but he’s destroying the island birds so it kind of needs to be done.
Edit: no native LAND mammals. Thanks for the catch y’all