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Kangaroo cull: necessary evil and the greater good : Comments
By Adam Henry, published 27/5/2008Canberra's kangaroos - a genuinely open and ethical public debate could have expanded the options beyond 'to cull or not to cull?'
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Whilst haydn leonovich has posted a clinical and accurate account of the current culling, he has failed to allude to the mismanagement of the cull.
That these animals were allowed to breed, in an unnatural habitat, until they reached "plague" proportions to starving point, on lands where there was no escape, reveals the indifferent and callous approach of authorities to our wildlife.
Immunocontraception has been available at least since the '90s. A sterilisation programme before the numbers increased would have seen far fewer objections than the current protests over the recent slaughter.
Deliberately incarcerating and allowing these animals to breed, coupled with the knowledge that they would in the end, be slaughtered and buried, further exposes Australia as a callous nation.
Forward planning, it seems, applies only to those animals which have high commercial value. These are the animals (together with the crops which feed them) that have desecrated the lands of this arid nation and stripped the countryside of natural vegetation which was once available to our native species.
If there is a plague of kangaroos, as the rural community insists, why are cull quotas rarely filled?
No wonder this country is currently on the nose.