There is so much wildlife there that setting traps would be an absurd way to try to find the elusive "Tiger" (actually more of a marsupial wolf). But that is only one of many suspensions-of-belief required to follow this idiotic plot. I wish it had shown more than one type of Tasmanian scenery, and that is had explained better the fight to save old-growth forests from being cut for pulp, to make paper in Japan.
You trolling?
Tasmania has a lot of wildlife, but once you go down to the level of "eats meat" + "eats dead meat" + is big enough to trigger the trap, there isnt much left.
There is a reason why the Tasmania was used as a prison camp, because even if people escaped, in contrast to Australia, they were sure to starve without a gun to hunt.
Yeah those evil Japanese taking all our old growth forests for paper! Too bad they import 7 times as much wood for paper from the USA. Australia barely rates in comparison. Yet the fact is, Japan has been our biggest buyer for wood chips. It fits a very convenient activist narrative of the 'yellow peril' on the environment, despite Australian domestic consumption dwarfing total exports, and despite those exports to Japan currently falling due to weak trade.
I remember when Pauline Hanson was gotcha'd by a journalist, before that particularly elusive beast also went extinct. She was going on and on about foreigners buying up all our land and companies, and the response was -- well somebody has to sell it them, you know.
Anyway, the film wasn't about old growth forests, and really it didn't matter in the slightest why the greenies were against the logging and why the loggers were against the suspension of their work.
You're quite right - Devils and Quolls would have tripped every baited trap he set. He shot a Numbat too at one point?
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