And today, it serves as an instrument of economic apartheid, by separating human beings into those who may enter and those stuck outside. It came to symbolize totalitarianism, thanks to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. It then entered the world stage with a grisly role in World War I. Barbed wire has always been used to separate living beings, first animals and later people. When I decided to examine the history of barbed wire in more detail, I found out that’s how it’s been since the beginning. Wherever migrants or suspected terrorists surfaced, they were held behind barbed wire. You couldn’t escape it: there it was, in every war and every demonstration.
It struck me while watching television how often barbed wire appeared in news reports about crisis zones. If you would like to learn more about wildlife and barbed-wire fencing, please contact me on 0487 930 903.Barbed wire is one of the most important inventions of modern times. The rewards are wonderful and never-ending. Find ways to welcome wildlife back into your life and your property. Stand back and consider: “what can I do?” Think about wildlife activity in both day and night. I encourage you all to please go out and have a look at your fences. We need to lift our game and take further action to help the local wildlife. We have impacted and changed their home to make our own. On a personal note, I would like to share my observation and belief here that the animal is not in our backyard, eating our fruit or crossing our roads. split poly-pipe over the barbed-wire, especially if there are trees or bushes growing through the fence.double some shade cloth over the top strand of barbed-wire.mark the top strand of fencing with white UV stabilised poly tape, the wider the better (the white colour helps for night time visibility).single strand, white horse sighter wire.plant a row of trees or shrubs, native of course.However, if you do need a fence, there are a range of options I encourage you to consider: If you do not need a barbed-wire fence, please consider taking it down. I’d like to urge you to help these critters. Tawny frogmouths, owls, possums, gliders, and koalas are also among the many nocturnal species that can become entangled in barbed-wire. Flying foxes can hit the fencing at speed and twist and fight the wire, trying to chew their way out, resulting in nightmare injuries.
At the end of rehabilitation, these animals are then assessed, and sadly, if they are deemed unable to survive in the wild, they are usually then euthanased.ĭay-time entanglements can occur when an animal has been chased by dogs or humans, when trying to cross into a better feeding area, or simply going about their regular movements in a world where sadly not everyone is aware or makes room for wildlife.Īt night, barbed-wire fencing becomes invisible.
If released to a carer, after countless hours of care, an animal may recover from its original injuries.
Out of over 800 individual animals, half were euthanased immediately, and over half were flying-foxes, around 80% of which did not make it. Sadly, they often take days to die and are left in fear and agony if they are not found and rescued.Īustralian Wildlife Hospital (AWH) has treated over 80 different species found caught on barbed-wire fences in the last three years. Tens of thousands of native animals die every year on barbed-wire fences. Readers, please note that this article might be confronting as it covers the graphic injury and death of animals. is much appreciated by both council and the community. Your passion and dedication to Bat Rescue Inc. Many thanks to Terrie for contributing this article. Article by Terrie Ridgway, Bat Rescue Inc.
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