A legitimate question; Was the kangaroo killed by a crazed hunter or did it die of natural causes.

Due to the remote locations where the commercial kangaroo shoot takes place there is no effective monitoring of animal welfare. No statistics are available for the animals who are wounded and escape, only to endure a long and painful death. The kangaroo industry Code of Practice requires that animals are killed by a single shot to the head, but even conservative estimates suggest that more than 100,000 of the adult kangaroos commercially 'processed' each year are not killed in this manner.

Once again we have a cruel animal industry that continues only because it can operate without public scrutiny. Tonight, while you are sleeping peacefully, out in the Australian bush the peaceful existence of thousands of gentle animals who have harmed no-one will end violently — for the sake of the mighty dollar.

Australia's iconic kangaroos are hunted in the largest commercial slaughter of land-based wildlife on the planet. Almost 90 million kangaroos and wallabies have been laughingly "lawfully" killed for commercial purposes in the last 20 years.

Paul,

Despite all the killing of 'roos for the meat industry there are the thousands that are shot by land owners who are plagued by their unwanted presence on their properties; yet despite all this killing the number of 'roos is increasing.
The 'roo meat industry is sustainable.

The 'Mourning Roo' has gone viral and there must be egg on a lot of faces as it slowly dawns on the tree huggers that buck kangaroos don't share their emotion fueled outlook on life.

Kangaroos are not very intelligent but they do become wary of hunters whereas those other icons of the "let's have a perfect world brigade", the whales and dolphins, don't have enough sense to keep away from ships.

I did a road trip, along the Princess Highway, then to Bombala, Cooma, Canberra.
Up until Bombala there was hardly a dead animal beside the road. From Bombala to Cooma the count on the number of dead Kangaroos, beside the road increased dramatically.

Cooma to Canberra and the toll was horrendous. Within the first 10ks out of Cooma I counted 100 dead roo's.

It is not crazed gunmen that are the biggest threat to roo's, it is the crazed motorists that are the biggest threat to roo's.

ps having a Panel shop in Cooma must be a gold mine ;)

Paul,
You show your ignorance, best you shut up.

You suggest that kangaroo harvesting is done in remote areas so monitoring cannot be carried out. Are you even aware that it is illegal to discharge a firearm in a built up area, not to mention a shortage of kangaroos, generally.

You claim 100000 roos are killed other than by a 'single shot to the head'. I say bull, simply because bullets are expensive, no commercial shooter wastes shots and the 'works' would reject any not shot in the head. Commercial shooters pay big money for precision rifles that are quite capable of such accuracy.

The roo either died of natural causes, maybe DV, or injuries from a vehicle, road kill. Get out of town once in a while and see the amount of road kill on our country roads.

Notice also your use of emotional language to describe a commercial industry.

Wolly B,

"It is not crazed gunmen that are the biggest threat to roo's, it is the crazed motorists that are the biggest threat to roo's."

One of the biggest threats to motorists on our country roads is kangaroos. Pigs, goats, deer seem to have some wariness for motor vehicles, even the usually brainless sheep will run away from a motor but the utterly clueless 'roo will run in front of one.
I've even seen them stand by the side of the line then dash in front of a steam locomotive (no bump or damage noticed!).
Even the lowly rabbit seem to have more intelligence than the 'roo.

I did once see a quoll that had a short life expectancy as it defied my car to keep the road killed possum that it was feeding on, edging the car forward convinced it to move aside.(Gwydir Hwy. on the Eastern slopes of the range).
On the return trip I noted that it was squashed into the remains of the possum. Which was a shame as there aren't all that many quolls and that was the only one that I've seen from a car, have seen quite a few travelling on the push bike but it's fairly silent.

Kangaroos have evolved to be very opportunist in fertility when the rains appear.

There are many thousands of dead and dying roos when the dry comes as it inevitably does.

The number killed on the road, although tragically damaging for motorists, is miniscule compared with what is happening elsewhere and are animals foraging for the tiniest bits of green from dew run-off at night.

Trust Greens (the Protest Party) tragic Paul 1405 to be setting hares loose and spruiking speculative gossip.

Much preferable for the Greens to be throwing mud at others rather than fixing THAT problem, their cozy mates relationship with the CFMEU for political donations.