Location: Proserpine, Queensland,
Date: September 22, 2008
I have found some more very interesting info. that will probably interest you.
On thursday last when I was passing the Proserpine Entertainment Centre, I saw that an "Agforce", (Qld. cattle producers' organisation as far as I know), Annual State Conference was being held there, &, delegates to this conference were taking a rest break outside this building.
To my surprise, they had a trailer, like those towed behind small buses used by tourist operators for luggage, &, on the the side of this trailer were photos of pest annimals, such as pigs, foxes, etc., &, a black panther with large white fangs. These photos had the caption "Have you seen these annimals ?"
I immediately asked a delegate if panthers really do exist in Australia ,as I had heard during the last 15 years, because, the National Parks & Wildlife Services deny any knowledge of them when I have phoned them about these annimals.
He replied that they definately do exist, &, he knows that the N.P.W.Ss. deny their existance. I assume that they don't want the entrance fee revenue from the Nat. Parks to decrease due to people being scared to visit Nat. Parks because panthers may live in them.
You can verify that Agforce Qld. list them as a pest annimal by phoning them as an interested member of the public. They will probably give you details of where they know that panthers live & how many they estimate live in these areas.
I told this delegate, &, a little later, a female delegate, that an ex Victorian National Parks Service ranger had told me approx. one year ago, that when he was a ranger several years previously, they had 150 panthers that they had captured, in a compound in Vic.- the decendents of those Regimental Mascots of Australian-based U.S. troops, that they let loose in our bush at the end of W.W. 2., after being ordered to shoot them as they were not to take them back to the U.S. when they return there.
These troops apparently could not kill their mascots that they had brought from the U.S. with them.
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