Australia’s most dangerous animals: top 30Ī bite from this highly venomous spider can kill a human in two hours, with a toxic cocktail that switches on all your nerves at once.10 most dangerous stingers in Australia.Bees more deadly than spiders in Australia.Australian spiders: the 10 most dangerous.They’ll kill you quite quickly, actually. Okay, so it’s a flesh wound you may want to get to the hospital in a hurry to treat, but it won’t necessarily kill you as quickly as Hollywood would have you believe. Still, there are a few creatures lurking in Australia’s wild places that, wrong time, wrong place, can cause, as the Monty Python crew would say, “just a flesh wound”, or so. (Ianz09)” That reality, Ianz09, is about as plausible as Avatar. Then there’s the online hysteria, an entry after a list of the world’s deadliest snakes reading: “Everything in Australia wants us dead, and everything has the capability to make that a reality. An antivenom was introduced in 1955 and no deaths attributed to treated redback spider bites have been reported since.”
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After seeking medical attention quickly, he made a full recovery.Īnd a red-back spider? From the Australian Venom Research Unit at the University of Melbourne: “Red-back spider bite is thought to be the commonest serious spider bite in Australia, particularly over the summer months. If it did, the seven year-old Perth boy who was bitten after a dugite crawled into his bedroom and wrapped around his arm while he slept, would not be alive.
I mean, honestly: a dugite (a type of brown snake found only in the south of Western Australia) while dangerous does not kill in 10 seconds. It doesn’t help that the likes of Worthington (along with a legion of Poms and Kiwis) tend to blow things out of all proportion. In general, Avatar didn’t harm anyone and for the most part neither do the creatures in our bush. Three and a half million isn’t many, is it?Īnd that’s the problem with the rep garnered by Australia’s creepy crawlies: yes we have some of the world’s most dangerous, but like Worthington’s most famous effort, Avatar, they’re also unfairly maligned if you consider the context. We are very excited to join forces with other leading animal protection organizations in order to campaign for an overhaul of Australia’s outdated animal welfare system and to drive significant and meaningful change for animals throughout the country.įind out more about the Australian Alliance for Animals here.Which is exactly what Tourism Australia did when their media monitors caught wind of The Late Show interview: prayed that no-one was watching. Mandy Carter, our Global Head of Campaigns, said: The formation of this new Alliance will bolster our work to end factory farming worldwide and create a sustainable global food system. We’re going to make democracy work for animals. By uniting the sector, we have the potential to reach over two million people to support critical reforms.
Introducing a fair, consistent, and transparent process for creating national animal welfare standardsĭr Jed Goodfellow, Co-Director of the Alliance, said: Our laws have failed to keep up with community expectations with weak regulations continuing to permit cruel practices like battery cages, sow stalls, and painful procedures without pain relief.Creating ministerial portfolios for animal welfare.Establishing an independent national commission for animal welfare.Today, (March 15), we have joined forces in a powerful new alliance, alongside Animals Australia, FOUR PAWS International Australia, Humane Society International Australia, World Animal Protection Australia, and Voiceless to help secure meaningful change for animals in Australia.Īs part of the Australian Alliance for Animals, we will help support an overhaul of Australia’s animal welfare system and encourage reforms in order to achieve effective change for animals.
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