Australia's Military Calls in Kangaroo Shooters

[Orygun]

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12758

Australia's Military Calls in Kangaroo Shooters

May 14, 2007 — By Rob Taylor, Reuters

CANBERRA -- A planned cull of thousands of near-starving kangaroos in Australia's capital on Monday had animal rights activists warning of protests to save the animals.

Australia's Defence Department plans to employ professional hunters to shoot around 3,200 eastern grey kangaroos -- around half the 6,500 population -- on two military bases on the fringes of Canberra, including a firing range. "It is a very cruel, violent way to treat animals, on a par to just treating them as if they were weeds to be mown or pulled out," Animal Liberation president Mary Hayes told local radio.

The defence department, in a letter to Canberra's city government, said the kangaroos were causing serious erosion due to over-grazing in the drought-ravaged area, endangering a species of local lizard and the threatened gold sun moth. Kangaroos have moved from the fringe of Canberra into the city centre amid a 10-year drought, grazing on school sports ovals and parklands kept green with regular watering.

The defence department said the problem at Canberra's Majura military training area and the Belconnen Naval Transmission Station was so severe it could not wait for an experimental project to sterilise the marsupials using drug-laced food baits.

The carcasses of the kangaroos culled in the planned three-day shoot were to be buried in a pit on government land.

 

[jindydiver]

I live down the road from these bases, and my dad was the groundskeeper at the radio base for over a decade. What we need help with is the removal of brainless protesters who have lost their grip on reality.

 

[spectr17]

I saw it on the news. Thems some big kangaroo rats you got there Jindy.

 

[jindydiver]

I tell you mate, when you are sneaking around a forest with your bow hunting deer and you come around a tree to find yourself standing toe to toe with a big buck roo you pucker up real fast (they are over 6 foot tall), and when he growls and puffs up his chest like Arnold you really wish you were Kirk and you could beam out of there LOL

We shoot a lot of roos here, even though they are a protected animals, you get tickets from the local authorities to stop crop damage and such and just go to town. It isn't sporting or anything, you drive a round in a truck at night and shoot them under spotlights. At a local property where I have a permit we shoot about 100 per year and I sometimes take a leg off for a feed (but I much prefer my deer) but the majority end up in a pit making compost for the organic farm LOL If only all those hippies at the farmers market who go nuts for the guys organic garlic knew that we pick them out of dirt that is covered in roo bones LMAO


Just in case people get the wrong idea, the permit prohibits the use of the kangaroo and we are breaking the permit conditions by even moving them after they are shot. It is a waste, but they are the rule never the less.

 

[Orygun]

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It is a waste, but they are the rule never the less[/b]

Same deal in CA. guy I worked with had a permit for feral pigs. Couldn't eat them after he trapped them off a dairy. He always had pig ready for BBQing though.

So he gutted them and hung them in a tree for the state guys to come and document. He could allegedly donate the meat to charity after they were checked. Only it took the state guys a couple of days to get out and the weather was usually pushing 100ºF. Big waste.

 

[upper]

Orygun,you can eat them or give them away now.No sales though Upper

 

[7mm RM]

Sounds like fun!!