Urge the Queensland government to take action to save the cassowary from extinction

According to a report in The Guardian, a spate of car collisions and dog attacks have killed as many cassowaries to April this year as the entire number of deaths in 2014.

The carnage has prompted calls for better protection of the species, which is listed as endangered.

Queensland government data shows that six cassowaries have died so far in 2015 – four struck by vehicles and two killed by dogs.

The same number of birds were killed in 2014.

Conservationists have called for urgent action to reduce the speed limits in the north of the state, particularly around Mission Beach and Tully, and a review of dog management policies in an effort to save the birds from going extinct.

No animal should be threatened due to human activity. Will you help me to urge the Queensland government to take action to save the endangered cassowary from extinction?

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