{"id":24291,"date":"2025-03-25T10:14:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T23:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/?p=24291"},"modified":"2025-03-25T13:15:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T02:45:43","slug":"please-dont-feed-the-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/2025\/03\/25\/please-dont-feed-the-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Please don&#8217;t feed the wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re fortunate to have a beautiful bushland campus filled with native flora and fauna &#8211; but please don\u2019t feed the wildlife!<\/p>\n<p>Feeding magpies and other wild, native animals doesn\u2019t help them. Instead, it can cause them harm as they lose their natural foraging skills and become reliant on humans for food.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFeeding wildlife negatively impacts their diet, social behaviours and potentially introduces disease,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/people\/leslie.morrison\"><strong>Leslie Morrison,<\/strong><\/a> CSE\u2019s Nature Education and Research Facilities (NERF) Manager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFoods which are unnatural in the diets of our wildlife, or foods which are processed do not provide the right nutritional balance, are harmful, can cause obesity, malnutrition and disease. Please remember &#8211; magpies are wild animals and they need to be able to fend for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you see any spilled food or left-overs lying around campus, please <a href=\"https:\/\/flindersuni.service-now.com\/csp?id=sc_cat_item&amp;sys_id=27f89444dba93b00a42c42a01496196a\">lodge a Service One cleaning request<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More information about wildlife can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.environment.sa.gov.au\/topics\/animals-and-plants\/helping-protecting-wildlife\/feeding-wildlife#:~:text=In%20South%20Australia%2C%20we%20share,affect%20water%20and%20environmental%20quality\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24293\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/03\/Keep-our-Wildlife-Wild-Poster_land.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"689\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/03\/Keep-our-Wildlife-Wild-Poster_land.jpg 689w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/03\/Keep-our-Wildlife-Wild-Poster_land-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re fortunate to have a beautiful bushland campus filled with native flora and fauna &#8211; but please don\u2019t feed the wildlife! Feeding magpies and other wild, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4182,"featured_media":24292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55563,7777,8006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-college-of-science-and-engineering","category-property-facilities-and-development"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}