Culling Kangaroos for Money
Approximately 60% of Australia’s land is used for grazing livestock and growing crops. Another 17% is mined by mining companies. Agriculture and mining utilise 77% of Australia’s total land mass. At least 80% of Australia has been cleared of native vegetation. Australia has lost 25% rainforest, 45% of open forest,
Kangaroo Parts Litter Australia
Every morning, kangaroo legs, tails and paws litter Australia. They are discarded by commercial hunters. Baby joeys and young at foot are bashed or bludgeoned to death, then thrown away as waste. The following description of the activities of a commercial kangaroo hunter is taken from an article published by
A Letter From David Nicholls – Ex Kangaroo Hunter
Dead Kangaroos on the ground in the dirt Chiller Boxes, old, dirty and rusty in the middle of nowhere. A Letter From David Nicholls I was a professional kangaroo shooter 38 years ago. Now I spend an inordinate amount of time in the defence of animals that are doing poorly
Government Lies, Deceives and Misleads the Public
The South Australian Department for Environment and Water (DEW) produced the draft South Australian Commercial Kangaroo Management Plan 2020-2024. According to the South Australian Government’s Your Say website: The statements on the SA Government’s Your Say website are false. For instance, since 2018 kangaroo numbers have decreased across much of
Inhumane Killing of Kangaroos
The Australian Government and the kangaroo industry would like you to believe that the practice of killing kangaroos is humane and beneficial, even to kangaroos. Let’s see for ourselves. The following instructions on how to euthanise young kangaroos is taken from the National Code of Practice for the Shooting of
Unhygienic Kangaroo Meat
Kangaroo meat is sold as a healthy red meat. Videos and photos depict clean, modern, refrigerated plants where the carcasses are processed for sale. What isn’t advertised is the inhumane way kangaroos are slaughtered, nor the unhygienic conditions in which kangaroos are hunted, gutted and transported. The public is being
Kangaroos DO NOT Damage Crops and Fences
In Australia, kangaroos are considered pests by many farmers and graziers. They claim that kangaroos compete with their livestock and cause damage to crops, fences and equipment. Some farmers would like to see kangaroos erased from the landscape. This story is not a new one. Farmers hunted the Thylacine, commonly
Big Numbers is A Big Lie
A search of the internet brings forth the often quoted number of 50 million kangaroos in Australia, two kangaroos per person. This figure came from the Federal Government in 2016. The page is http://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/pages/d3f58a89-4fdf-43ca-8763-bbfd6048c303/files/kangaroo-statistics-new.pdfEven if there are 50 million kangaroos, which there isn’t, Australia is 7.692 million square kilometres. That means
Kangaroos and Climate Change
The average global temperature is predicted to rise 2-3°C by the end of the century, placing approximately 20-30% of the world’s species at risk of extinction. The possible impacts on kangaroo populations are not well understood, but these could include changes in rainfall and fire frequency, food availability, fertility, species
Western Grey Kangaroos – Unsustainable
In many parts of Australia, kangaroo numbers have declined to less than the quasi-extinction density of five kangaroos per square kilometre, the nominal value of kangaroo densities taken to indicate the effective loss of the species (Hacker et al, 2004). Critical minimum densities are not clearly defined but populations below
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