Tasmanian Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson has described the proposed law changes as"moving things in the right direction", but he does not believe it will solve the problem."The big problem we've had in recent years with hundreds of tragic deaths of penguins is we haven't been able to catch the culprits, so unless you've got that enforcement and deterrents you're never going to solve the problem," he said.
Mr Whish-Wilson has also urged the State Government to increase its funding for the Penguin Advisory Group, which has been tasked with helping protect the species. "We need hundreds of thousands of dollars firstly to map these rookeries, because you can't monitor what you don't manage, and at the moment we don't even know how many penguins are there," Mr Whish-Wilson said."We know that a surveillance camera did catch a dog in Bicheno and an owner was fined."
There need to be jail terms for native animal slaughter or it won't stop. People aren't stopped by fines.
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