"Wiluna pastoralist Tim Carmody has shot more than 2,500 camels since the start of this year and more than 7,000 camels and horses since his family took over Prenti Downs Station four years ago."

So, why don't we do something useful with these camels instead of just shooting them and presumably letting their carcases rot. We have the biggest and genetically most diverse wild camels in the world. We know that camels can be domesticated.

There have been attempts to export camels, and there are problems - the relative cost of the process v. the sale price. Some innovation is clearly needed. See http://foodtank.com/news/2018/05/camel-meat-australian-outback-somali-americans/.

Why waste a resource that developed without any effort on our part?

Is mise, that MLA report was written in 2014. Even allowing for the financial disparity then, and probably still now, we should be more innovative. We do well with goat exports.

Cossomby,

It would be good to find a longterm solution but farmers are faced with a here and now problem; camels destroy crops, fences and waterlines.
They also drink waterholes dry thus depriving native wildlife of water and if the wildlife so affected does not have the mobility necessary to move to another hole then they die of thirst.

In the long term, the best outcome would be to kill all the camels.

Cossomby,
I thank Is Mise for bringing this to our attention.

It obviously is a far bigger matter than just allowing shooters access to weapons with increased fire power. There is the makings of an industry here if some enterprizing people can overcome the challenges and provide the finance. I do not care if the finance comes from our government or private enterprize.

It would be nice if a current problem can be turned into a profitable business. If the Yanks can aerial muster their wild horses and keep them in check surely we can do the same with our horses and camels and maybe even make it profitable. That would be a win, win.

Yes Issy, how about some up to date research on a business model for cannibalising camels profitably. Or put simply is the real agenda of the gun freaks to get more guns, and more powerful guns, into as many hands as possible.

That would be a win, win.
Henry L,
win, win is frowned upon by our treasurer, if it's for the wider community that is !
Centrelink will do everything within its power to maintain struggle street !