To use the fur of dead Koala bears to raise many for Australia.

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I just don’t know what to say about this.
I’m currently watching Good Morning Britain and there is some kid on there from The Apprentice saying he thinks it’s a good idea to selling off the fur from the Koalas lost in the Australian bush fires to help raise money.
Of course raising any money for such a cause is a great idea but how can anyone think this is the way to do it?
To start why on earth would you want to promote the wearing of fur and surely, those poor little animals should be allowed to rest in peace after their horrendous deaths, not having their fur ripped off their poor bodies!

Well, apprentice candidates aren't usually noted for their common sense, more for doing anything and everything to get themselves on TV...

It's about the level you'd expect from one of them but YANBU.

if there's enough demand for it to make any money, there'll be enough demand to make someone decide to trap and kill additional koalas to keep the supply chain going once the initial batch is sold.

the only way to protect animals from exploitation is for the use of their bodies to be absolutely unacceptable even if they are already dead.

Well that's what everyone wants to wear isn't it? Charred Koala fur. Charred fur recovered from a decomposing corpse, because the primary effort is to get people safe and keep them safe.

Stupid idea.

Koala's fur isn't the dense fur you get on animals like chinchillas (not that I agree with fur anyway).

sashh That was my first thought, most of those poor animals had burnt to death, surely there wouldn’t be much fur left. Stupid idiot with stupid ideas.

To me it just undermines the whole tragedy. We’re witnessing an entire ecosystem being ravaged and what do humans do? Think of a way to still plunder resources and shirk responsibility in our part of it all.

How sick does someone have to be to come up with that suggestion?

If you don't like incendiary bollocks and terrible ideas maybe start watching something a little more intelligent in the morning?

Good Morning Britain is the one with Piers Moron right? Surely that tells you everything you need to know about the caliber of the show?

1. This doesn’t make sense. There is little fur left, sadly. 2. Anyone buying it, even for “charity”, would seem somewhat sick in the head. 3. It’s wrong.

I wouldn't imagine there'd be much fur left. But in theory, I have no objection to the use of fur when it's not the reason something died - like using the skin of rabbits shot for pest control, or deer skins from population control. I don't see fur as a big issue, I just don't agree with it from unethical sources. It's just a leftover byproduct. The koala couldn't care less about his fur when he's dead! But I don't see what anyone would actually do with it.

That makes me feel sick .
What is wrong with some people

No way! There is a reason that killing a koala (not bears by the way) for their pelts is illegal. As other PPs have said, if you start a market for it when they are dead they will again be killed after all the dead ones have been sold. And since they are so slow moving, it will become very likely that they will quickly become extinct.

www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-30/killing-koalas-90-years-since-qld-month-long-open-season/8839720