Belly,
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Spanky

RObert,
G'day cobber! I believe in the balance and sustainability of the environment, reading the comments on this thread has lead me to picture an over abundance of roos over there, is it really that serious? The drought issue I can understand but for the roos actually encrouching on the sheer sustainability of the environment and its creatures, has really got me gob smacked!
Does Green peace have a say in this matter or is the decision taken on the whim of an individual? Is it a national decision? Whatever the origin, I hope there will one day be a better solution to this than putting it down to plain culling.
Spanky

Spanky, it's not much in the media here. Much bigger issues facing the country lately. I am aware that there are issues in some of the western suburbs of Ipswich (just outside Brisbane) with numbers of roos in urbane areas which create problems. Not enough food for the roos and roos and cars don't play nicely together. I assume that anywhere impacted by the drought where the roo numbers are bigger than current conditions can support will have some issues.

It's quite likely that the issue has been played for dramatic effect in your local media.

R0bert

Culling is an necessary evil...not many like it, even less understand it, but it still needs to be done. It needs to be done for their own good (I'd rather cop a bullet than starve) and ours. I live north of Ipswich and although I haven't seen any dead ones on the motorway outside Wacol, there is no doubt it's an issue. I'm seeing more and more cause of the drought...they hang out on the side of the road where the water run off (when it rains) creates the best grass...it's 3 times more compared to the paddocks...people hit them at the worst possible time of day.

Culling them won't make them extinct, Grow up. We created the competition for pasture, we destroyed their predators. We rape the land. We have to deal with the concequences.

I live in the City proposing the culling of the 3000 Kangaroos.
I drive past both sites on a daily basis.
Both sites are heavily overpopulated by Kangaroos.
Kangaroos are not endangered and are in fact in plague proportions in many areas close to major cities.
Culling these Kangaroos is the logical solution.

The argument should be how.
The most Humane method.
1. A single shot to the head or heart.
The other options.
2. A slow and agonizing death by poisoning.
3. A slow and agonizing death from starvation.
4. A sometimes slow and agonizing, but always costly, death by car.

While the most humane method does not meet with the approval of the environmentalists because of the emotive responses evoked by the mere thought of "men with guns" it is unfortunately the most logical
option.

The Kangaroos have to go and unless "Green Peace" or "WWF" have the time and resources to airlift them to another country for peaceful resettlement then option 1. is the only reality.

Hi westic,
You brought up a good point of being able to rezone the roos as I gather from this thread that they breed like rabbits, where would you suggest rezoning them to? On the other side of the coin, why not introduce the PILL to control the over populating, the thought of this came about in a discussion on the local media in South Africa as to how to stop the overpopulating of some of the North African country's stricken with hunger, drought and plagues, yet still they are multiplying even in their state of affairs...just a thought...just being an adult...(StG)
Spanky