![]() ![]() 'They're out partying now!' Liam Gallagher is delighted his children now suffer awful hangovers because they realise he wasn't a bad dad when he got them Maria Shriver is seen for first time since ex Arnold Schwarzenegger talked about their painful split in his tell-all documentary Linnell, who spent six weeks with lawyers devising the terms and conditions, replied there were loopholes in the legislation which meant the prize could be claimed. 'If they do it illegally and they haven't got the permits, well they can't claim the money.' 'They can't win because one of the conditions is to do it legally,' he told the Sydney Morning Herald. Mooney also said it would be impossible to claim the reward. The Bulletin's competition was open to persons 18 years or older and tiger hunters were responsible for obtaining any government permits, approvals, licences or other necessary forms of consent.īut Tasmanian Environment Minister Judy Jackson said there was no way under her state's law any permits to capture a Tasmanian tiger would be issued. The stunt attracted immediate media attention from around the world, garnered free publicity worth an estimated $4million and inspired at least one imitator.īurnie-based tour company Thylacine Expeditions quickly offered $1.75million reward for pictures of a Tasmanian tiger in its own promotional gimmick. While Turner's offer was later withdrawn, Linnell's reward was more successful, at least for The Bulletin. ![]() In 1983 the American media mogul Ted Turner put up $US100,000 for proof of the Tasmanian tiger's existence. If people don't read the fine print we'll have real problems.'Ī thylacine reward offer was not unprecedented. If someone did, we probably wouldn't hear about it, but if you catch a thylacine in a trap you're bound to injure it. ![]() At the worst you could kill a thylacine, potentially. 'The net product is negative because it discredits and makes a joke out of extinct and endangered creatures. 'It's getting to the point where it's trivialising something,' he told The Age. He was already sick of stunts surrounding the tiger back then. In 2005 when the Bulletin offered its reward Mooney was a wildlife biologist with the Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment. The museum's honorary curator of vertebrate zoology, Nick Mooney, concluded the three animals were more likely to be pademelons, a type of small wallaby. Waters, president of the Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia, sent the images to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery for assessment. The latest Tasmanian tiger hysteria was sparked by thylacine hunter Neil Waters, who released photographs taken three weeks ago which he said showed a family of the marsupials. The thylacine would have to be escorted to Sydney by an animal welfare specialist.īulletin editor Garry Linnell came up with the idea of the $1.25million reward as a publicity stunt to promote the loss-making magazine Linnell explained to Packer the conditions of claiming the reward were so onerous it was next to impossible for anyone to score the $1.25million.Ī successful applicant would have to capture a Tasmanian tiger without breaking any Australian or state laws and deliver it unharmed to The Bulletin's office in Park Street, Sydney. It was also not immediately popular with Packer, a famously big-time gambler, who wanted to know the odds of someone claiming the prize before he risked footing the bill.Īnswering that question was left to Bulletin editor Garry Linnell, who came up with the offer as a publicity stunt to promote a magazine losing millions of dollars a year. The offer caused huge controversy, particularly in Tasmania, with concerns it would lead to international bounty hunters stalking through the state's pristine wilderness. To mark the 125th anniversary of The Bulletin magazine in 2005 its billionaire owner Kerry Packer put up $1.25million for the capture of a 'live, uninjured' Tasmanian tiger. Such a discovery would be among the scientific finds of the century but 16 years ago there was an even more enticing reward offered for proving thylacines still exist. Billionaire Kerry Packer once offered $1.25million for the capture of a 'live, uninjured' Tasmanian tigerįresh photographs said to show a family of Tasmanian tigers living in remote bushland have reignited hopes among eternal optimists the fabled animal is not really extinct. ![]()
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