Wildlife

Title
Wildlife
Publication Date
2006
Author(s)
Jarman, Peter
Vernes, Karl Adriaan
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1635-9950
Email: kvernes@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:kvernes
Editor
Editor(s): Alan Atkinson, J S Ryan, Iain Davidson and Andrew Piper
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Place of publication
Crows Nest, Australia
Edition
1
UNE publication id
une:4992
Abstract
"When New England was first settled by the Whites, they found the standing nets of the Blacks in many parts of the bush for the purpose of entrapping the wild animals - The tribes of Blacks met by appointment at these places at certain times driving from different directions their game before them, and this from a circle of many miles into these nets... Since the Whites have occupied the Pundarra & Byron plains Countries, the wild animals of every description have left the plains & frequented places occupied by civilised man, and have betaken to the mountains & unfrequented parts." The schoolmaster and chronicler William Gardner thus described the impact of the first twenty years of pastoralism. The Aborigines' hunting infrastructure was destroyed, and the wildlife on which they depended drastically reduced in the developed areas, remaining abundant only in 'the mountains and unfrequented parts'. This chapter takes up the theme of the diversity, distribution and human attitudes to New England's vertebrate fauna - its native and introduced mammals, birds, reptiles, frogs and fishes - with a particular focus on mammals.
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Citation
High Lean Country: Land, people and memory in New England, p. 44-56
ISBN
9781741761092
9781741750867
Start page
44
End page
56

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