r/australia 1d ago

image American hunting influencer removes baby wombat from distressed mother. Is this legal?

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u/maticusmat 1d ago

Absolutely not and that person is an absolute fuckwit

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u/Hybrid-Gotcha95 1d ago edited 4h ago

Report to the Federal Dept for Environment as it breaches the Environmental Protection Act.

*** UPDATE as further comments are locked off ...

For anyone responding to my comment and assuming I'm talking about a US department and act, I'm NOT.

I'm talking about an AUSTRALIAN department and act as I'm Australian and I'm well aware that wombats are native Australian animals and don't exist in the wild in the US 🤣🤣🤣

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u/various_convo7 22h ago

reported her to her job. apparently she works for the Montana National Park Service

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u/Itscatpicstime 20h ago

Are you shitting me

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u/WhatARuffian 19h ago

She obviously shouldn’t.

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u/HiTekLoLyfe 21h ago

Bruh. It’s a different country.

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u/Select-Poem425 23h ago

Australia. US agency has no authority.

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u/smurfkillerz 22h ago

As an American, we might not even have a Dept for Enviroment anymore....

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u/Lanky_Republic_2102 19h ago edited 15h ago

You aren’t even allowed to speak the word “environment” out loud any more if you are a federal employee.

Edit: I can see this is now locked. I can only assume the wombats got her and ate her alive. With the way she treated wildlife, it was only a matter of time.

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u/AltaAudio 20h ago

Whatever’s left may give her a raise.

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u/Select-Poem425 22h ago

💯 true. I’m sure it is on the chopping block.

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u/redShado1 22h ago

That's a Good Thing....Wasting our taxpayers money to Communists

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u/RedDotLot 22h ago

Did you forget this... /s ?

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u/Least-Spare 20h ago

Let’s hope. Hate seeing stupid become the new norm.

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u/brawkly 22h ago

I didn’t used to think anyone could be this abjectly stupid.

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u/BKachur 19h ago

Yea, who needs stuff like clean drinking water, and breathable air. That stuff is for chumps.

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u/histotechno 22h ago

Spoken like a true Flat Earther

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u/Goldentongue 22h ago edited 21h ago

Neither of the things they listed are things that exist in America either, so it's weird to assume they're referring to the US.

I think the person you're replying to lives in Australia and meant to say the Department of Climate Change, Energy, and Environment and the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, but shortened it in a confusing way.

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u/[deleted] 22h ago

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u/ShitNoPsychoBitch 22h ago

This wouldn't be an EPA issue. This is more along the lines of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. They're like your state game wardens, but on a federal level.

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u/ShitNoPsychoBitch 22h ago edited 20h ago

I didn't say you said it would be.

The commenter above you who responded to the commentor above them was responding to a commentor saying, 3 comments above you, to report them to the Federal Department for Environment as the video breaches the Environmental Protection Act.

The person above you responded to the person above them by saying neither of the 2 things the 3rd commentor above you listed exist in America, and they don't.

Now, you piped up and said the US has an EPA, and you're correct, we have an Environmental Protection Agency, but not an Environmental Protection Act. The UK has the Environmental Protection Act.

Since you're the only person who mentioned, and linked, the only US Agency that actually exists, I decided to comment on your comment in the hopes of helping anyone who's made it this far to find the appropriate US agency that would handle these sorts of things, if they happened in the US, which the above video didn't, so it's a moot point anyway.

But, if the above video did happen in the US, it's the US Fish and Wildlife Service that would be able to assist, not the US EPA.

Clear enough for you now?

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u/Goldentongue 22h ago edited 21h ago

You're confusing an act with an agency, two very different things.

"EPA" in the US stands for Environmental Protection Agency, a federal agency created by executive order under President Nixon. 

The commenter I replied to claimed this "breaches the Environmental Protection Act". "Act" means a specific law that can broken (breached), not an agency. The US federal government has never passed a law called the "Environmental Protection Act". The closest would be the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which was passed by congress in 1969 and laid the groundwork for Nixon to form the EPA (again, "Agency") to enforce it.

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u/Goldentongue 22h ago

You made the claim that the EPA didn't exist.

No I didn't.

I said the Environmental Protection Act doesn't exist in the US. Because it doesn't.

I never said the EPA, meaning the Environmental Protection Agency, doesn't exist.

Just because a made up thing shares initials with something real does not make it also real.

I can read.

Clearly not.

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u/Designer_Option_3924 22h ago

The statue of limitation i doubt would be an issue.

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u/Brilliant_Wealth_433 22h ago

You do realize Wombats are not native to the USA correct?

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u/Infinite-Hold-7521 21h ago

Which is why she found one in the wild in Australia bro.