Twenty-five ecological, conservation, animal welfare and Aboriginal organisations have also supported the experts' call.
Scientists have embraced the need for more culling, and also want to see prices paid for kangaroo meat trebled to encourage more harvesting. There are an estimated 40 million kangaroos in Australia. What many people have seen as a complete reversal of recent scientific opinion has emboldened the commercial kangaroo industry to emulate the giant strides being made by the domestic goat industry. The scientists, wildlife experts from most universities around Australia, agree current strategies on curbing kangaroo numbers are not working. Shooters Union Australia was responding to a unprecedented call from the nation's best wildlife scientists for a national approach to combat the problem. Declare them a pest, and let hunters do the work at no cost to taxpayers. Shooters say they have a simple answer to Australia's kangaroo plague.
0 kommentar(er)
