tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903555090258942828.post4294151600687991570..comments2023-09-23T22:41:36.769+08:00Comments on Lim Lip Eng: Residents want vacant land cleared to get rid of snakesLIM LIP ENG 林立迎http://www.blogger.com/profile/02000522931345479227noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7903555090258942828.post-65237456432959818942013-06-02T04:59:34.357+08:002013-06-02T04:59:34.357+08:00Hi LLE, The issue of snakes or other wildlife peop...Hi LLE, The issue of snakes or other wildlife people dislike or fear should be looked at holistically. It's part of the ecosystem. You can't effectively eliminate one species or a few animals and think the problem is solved. If you remove it, it <i>will</i> come back. Maybe another individual animal will move in to take it's niche. Or maybe it's food-source will explode, as the 'genius' MP from Kota Belud reports he "appalled by the rampant rise in the numbers of rats" now. Or maybe it's prey will next starve to death, like the crested serpent eagle.<br /><br />Further literally <i>leveling</i> a plot of land makes no difference to the animals, but destroying it's habitate i.e. vegetation would. So must we cut and clear any vacant land which might contain a single undesired animal? 'Til there all dead? Can Segambut be a district shared, and not 100% human habitate? And what about the oxidation ponds and Sg Keroh, where snake's food source (frogs, rats, birds) abound. Are you sure this isn't a human made problem, and the requestors want you to go kill some more Nature next? You mention rubbish - great for rats (snake food), Aedes, etc. Maybe fix the man-made root cause? Plus does the Wildlife Conservation Act protest said species?<br /><br />I recommend you donate several copies of book <i>The Kings, The Mice, and The Cheese</i> to the residents of 3/60b and the problem should solve itself - in the next generation.<br /><br />Cheers and thanks for your work for a better Malaysia.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com