The article tells about the life of foxes in Australia with possible damages and troubles which are connected with these animals. The thing is that people make foxes die with “agonizing” and slow death due to the poison implemented through baits. There are many pieces of evidence in the state of Victoria, particularly, about cases when foxes did harm to livestock, endangered some species of mammals, and also damaged the flora of the country. That is why there appeared a high rage from the side of various dwellers. It is not surprising that such measures considered with the decrease of foxes are connected with the cruelty of a man. The narrator gives brief information about the current number of animals in Victoria and their danger for the agriculture and well-being of human beings along with their speedy breeding in the region. Moreover, the cruelty of men is also connected with numerous traps. Animals are prone to experience real martyrdom until their death, and it is not humane. Nonetheless, the scientists found the solution to the problem using an implementation of a new contraceptive vaccine looking and tasting as“yummy bait”. It attacks sperm or eggs of foxes and prevents from further breeding of these beautiful and wild animals. This solution is thought in the article to be the most optimal solution in contrast with poisoning, shooting, or gassing.
The main content of the article presupposes the idea of better variants for controlling the population of wild animals. It is considered with making no physical harms, as they are cruel for nature. The narrator provides a scope of reasoning about how to save people and animals from danger, so that not to damage the ecosystem peculiarities of Victoria.
As far as I am concerned, the idea of more humane actions as of foxes’ decrease is the best. While having high readings of breeding within the population of foxes, it is not correct to simply shoot or poison them. First of all, it will damage crops or domestic animals because of too many putrescent bodies of the animals. It may do harm to people living near due to, for example, milk bad quality and poisoning, as a result.
As I see, the contraceptive vaccine is not a panacea when talking about isolated cases of the damage which comes from foxes. The national vaccine program as of foxes may not keep a strict eye on the whole population of foxes while they are killing livestock. That is why the farmers cannot but wait for vaccine and national support in this case. They can simply shoot or poison foxes to decrease somehow the risk for them and their farms.