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A PLANNED CULL of a herd of goats by Coillte has been met with stern opposition by protesters who have begged that the animals not be “sacrificed”.
A letter was sent out by forestry group Coillte to residents of a community near Cong in Galway.
It read that the group was attempting to replant the local Drumsnauv wood area and said locals should prepare for these works.
Coillte said it “planned to remove the wild goat population from the site” as they would “be detrimental to the establishment of the newly-planted trees”.
A protester said a number of residents in the area and elsewhere are “extremely concerned about the possibility that the lives of these animals may be sacrificed this coming Saturday”.
Coillte has since put back the cull and are now planning to meet those locals who fear the goats will be slaughtered.
The main issue is where the goats can be stored. As wild animals, they can not be domesticated. The animals would need to be moved elsewhere.
Under current legislation, wild goats can be treated like vermin and a permit is not required to kill them, unlike deer where procedure must be followed.
A spokesperson for the body said: “Coillte proposed a seasonal cull of the majority of the herd in Drumsnauv and this was communicated to the local community and the gardaí in the region. Coillte is continuing to engage with the community, affected landowners and local groups on this proposal and other proposals for the management of the herd.”
The spokesperson added that the “presence of feral goats exert a detrimental influence on a locality, particularly on agriculture, forestry and conservation habitats”.
Coillte stressed they had initially placed fences to stave off any potential disruption by goats but these efforts had proven unsuccessful.
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Use common sense when travelling? How about banning flights to and from infected countries etc? It’s the best way to stop it spreading in my eyes
It’s in your eyes!!!!!
It has killed a 1000 people in a part of the world with 500mn and where other diseases take that in a week.
Lets not get carried away wither because of the movie knowledge we have of this. The disease burns itself out quickly, always has. If it goes airborne, then we can start panicking.
True it burns out quick-but it could mutate the more it spreads so…
Goggles do nothing apparently
Anybody else think they are playing this down a bit so it dosent cause mass panic ?
Yep definitely plays it down till you get to the WHO’s tweet,then you’re looking to run to the Ebola free hills.
Scary stuff alright.
I’m sure the big pharmaceutical companies have a vaccine already for it.. Let a World wide pandemic hit then start counting those $$$$
Uh huh, spend how much to develop a vaccine without any likely commercial demand…ever? Not really getting how big pharma operate huh?
If they had a vaccine they’d be creating panic right now to create demand for it!
This is scary shit….
lol “It is important that Dublin airport staff notice Ebola symptoms straight away”
if its going to get into any eu state, it will be here. paddy power take my money.
Liberia are not taking precautions and I doubt Nigeria are either. They don’t believe Ebola is real:
http://videobam.com/XEHXJ
As opposed to “jesus run for the hills its swine flu jab anything that moves”!
So what are the symptoms we’re supposed to be aware of?
Flu like!
-recent travel from west africa by patient or contact with same.
-high temperature, joint pain, general weakness.
-nausea, vomiting, lethargy, diarrhoea.
-late signs: loss of consciousness, unexplained haemorrhage, blood in faeces and/or stool.
Man-Ebola is the worst strain
Dang I was supposed to be going on an 18-30 holiday in Nigeria next week :(
If dublin airport tried to delay anyone entering from africa denise charlton would be on rte within minutes demanding government provides a limousine to whisk them straight to their hotel..sorry i mean refugee centre.
Well as all the “asylum seekers” can’t go home for fear of their lives, we got nothing to worry about,,,…. right!!!!!!!!
Chill out people I would have more chance of catching TB in Ireland
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