I am not a resident in your beautiful country, although in my younger years, I lived in Tasmania with my parents. What I saw on the news this morning really concerned me. Is it absolutely necessary to carry out the sensless culling of 3000 kangaroos? These marsupials are not a threat or danger to humans as far as I know, although I have heard of them carrying deseases, which I would suspect almost any wild animal to carry some type of desease. They are your heritage, have been there longer than any inhabitant of Australia. We as humans have tresspassed on their turf, not the other way around. This is just another joes excuse to kill off yet another unique species, in a unhumane manner. Just like big game hunters, put one in a cage with a lion without his gun and lets see who prevails. SPANKY

As you said you are not from Australia and in truth would not have a clue about the subject.
Are you aware there are many times more roos in Australia now than before white men settled this country?
Or that about 10 times the culled number die each year in drought?
And can you truly think we shoot roos only because they harm us?
Do you understand the harm they can do in numbers that are often more than the cattle or sheep run on that land?
Some make a living shooting roos and I need to understand why it is considered any more offensive than killing sheep or cattle, deer or rabbits for the table?
Improved pasture and crops give roos more food and lead to more roos, just maybe without some culling we may find it easier to cull them all.

Roos are dying in their thousands because of drought and like wild horses, donkeys and camels need to be kept in check.

Guess what happens to all the tiny animals that live around a water hole when mobs of any of the above decend on the hole and drink it dry.
Small native animals can't travel 20 or 30 miles for a drink.

It is easy to romantacise kangaroos and to portray the culling of them as a barbaric act. It does not however reflect the reality of the situation of large mobs of animals and an environment that cannot support them. Certainly culling is not a pleasant thing but when the only alternative is slow starvation what other choice is there.

G'day Belly, thanks for the comment however obscure.
I somehow agree with the reasons, the ifs, why's and's & errr... butts?.. However, one can only expect my comments on this culling issue to be a tad concerning, by this and being the animal lover that I am, although the animal activists have, I believe, done all in their power to find alternative measures. Where I come from, we do not eat Roo meat as we do cows and other DOMESTIC live stock, I reckon kangeroo would probably taste like rabbit? All in all, fair comment on the drought issue but fail to understand where the race issue comes in as I mentioned people...?
Spanky

Well you should eat kangaroo, it is very tasty especially in a rissole. In some areas they are in plague proportions, due to the dingo fence which means they have no natural predators, they are so thick you can stand in one spot and see hundreds, and they are all starving.
If we ate more, it would be better for them as then there would be more feed for them, the enviroment would bennefit as they are less damaging than sheep or cattle.
There is absolutly no danger of them becoming extinct.