I quite enjoyed the movie: Oddball, though definitely biased as I grew up in Warrnambool. Every scene was a familar place but weirdly shuffled.
You used to have to wade out to the island when I lived there in the mid 90's. Even back then they tried to cull the foxes around the surrounding sand hills and Lake Pertobe but it was never effective.
tl;dr Someone dolt at the Queensland zoo thought fairy penguin would offend the gay community so they changed the name to little penguins. The gay community responded to the change calling it ridiculous. No one was offended. It was NOT an issue but merely and amusing footnote.
Why the BBC author chose to dredge up a 13 year old political non issue is beyond me.
Obviously yes, but heck if only humans had never gone to Australia in the first place it would still be populated by innumerable species that simply no longer exist.
We were destroying ecosystems long before there was anything that could reasonably be called a nation state.
The foxes weren't any kind of accident or incidental to human arrival though - they were deliberately introduced so that fox hunting could be engaged in!
In my opinion there's a relevant distinction between the development of a technology that caused incidental and largely unforeseen environmental degradation, and an act of deliberate alteration of the environment that resulted in entirely foreseeable degradation.
The foxes know the penguins are there now and they’re perfectly capable of swimming across a ten metre channel for some food. Also, dredging would need to be repeated every ten years minimum. The dogs may be cheaper as well. Dog food is cheap.
