Kangaroos are on Australia’s coat of arms and the tail of the national airline, but every year state authorities allow licensed hunters to kill millions of them.
The government and wildlife experts say some species of kangaroos are so plentiful they need to be regularly culled to protect the land, other native species, and the animals themselves from starving during times of drought. But the legal culling of a national icon has enraged some activists, who for years have campaigned for an end to a practice they say is cruel and driven by commercial interests.
“If they’re being managed properly, apparently, then we wouldn’t be seeing dramatic drops of kangaroos in areas which aren’t even particularly rural farmland,” Pearson said. A spokesperson for the NSW Department of Planning and Environment says a review of the methodology used to count kangaroos in NSW is due to be completed this year. Campaigners also point to the killing of joeys found to be in the pouches of shot female kangaroos.
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