Trumpets of outrage in the outback (BBC)
An Australian biology professor is causing a rumble in the academic jungle by suggesting that his country should import elephants and other foreign species into its wild interior.
Rhinos and even giant Komodo dragon lizards could be imported, David Bowman suggests in an article in Nature.
He says Australia is just not managing its most pressing ecological problems, and something radical is needed.
But some fellow scientists say it is just a bad and dangerous idea.
Others, however, are supportive, seeing potential for helping beleaguered Aboriginal communities and reducing the risk of forest fires, as repairing some damaged ecology.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16843096
Wow, I hope this wacky idea gets stopped in its tracks. This is trying to solve a problem by adding more of the same problem.
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would do well!
