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Dodo bird on the menu or not?

Federal Government, Parliament and States clash on animal protection

September 5599

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Randworth - For the first time in a long while the Federal Government, Federal Parliament and the State Governments of Voisain and Colliwick have clashed with one another over a controversial bill regarding the protection and preservation of protected animals in Mordusia as well as expanding those protections to more animals. At the moment it seems to be grinding down to a stand still with no resolution in sight.
 
As most know the Dodo bird was revived in Mordusia in 4383, the bird originally was thought to be dead but was found alive in one of the forests in Voisain. Later scientists believe the great mystery bird, long thought dead came from Colliwick and migrated south. Afterwards the preservation of these animals began. They were bred by a corporation and set up Dodosland. It lasted for years, but began to financially decline due to mismanagement. Dodo birds even escaped this park due to neglect and slowly began repopulating the area.
 
At first this repopulation caused a shift in the ecosystem, which wasn’t used to these birds. The local governments stepped in and went on to prevent their spread, even giving out hunting permits and selling the meat from the birds. Sadly this overzealous reaction caused the bird to greatly diminish again, coming on the brink of a second extinction event. Luckily the local governments jumped into action and prevented the extinction by creating a special controlled habitat and a piece of the forest in Voisain. Here the Dodo birds could expand freely.
 
Now of the course of the years the bird has multiplied rapidly and has bounced back, even returning to the wild in some cases, being kept in various zoo’s and wild life reserves. Some might even say they are becoming a pest. Especially politicians from some parties allied with the National Party and rarely some of the Reform Party had called for hunting these animals and allowing their meat to be sold and consumed. State representative Henri Le Clair said that the ‘’bird can be a delicacy like the Kangaroo and make Mordusia a more appealing nation to visit, much like the other tropical and fantastic creatures we have in our nation’’. However in Voisain he is the minority as most of the Voisain regional party ‘Voisain Bloc’ opposes this and wish for the bird to remain protected.
 
Nationally the National Party is divided in the Federal Parliament, this became even more apparent when the Federal Government caught wind of the whole discussion and wished to intervene and force the withdrawal of the protected status of the bird. Something that doesn’t sit well with a sizable amount of National and Reform representatives in the Federal Parliament. Even the Colliwick State Government is furious, they too had this issue on their agenda and though they are more open to it, think that the Federal Government should keep out of it.
 
The discussion in the various parliaments even spilled over in talks about protecting other creatures such as the Kangaroo, but lobbies from Kangaroo Burger and especially big finance have called on the various legislatures to keep the discussions of off the Kangaroo, which seems to be working for now.