How do they get those numbers? “ This could be the greatest wildlife swindle in scientific history… In 2011, I reviewed government data finding that kangaroos are in serious long-term decline in New South Wales. I submitted exhaustive scientific evidence detailing critical errors in government population surveys; flaws in the harvest
Kangaroo Archive
Decimation of an Icon
This report exposes our kangaroos in crisis and on the brink of extinction, right across New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia, decimated by a trade in leather and meat, and condoned by federal and state governments. This report also unveils decades of propaganda and myth used to justify a
Us and Them — the End Game?
Two dozen welfare organisations say STOP to kangaroo slaughter
AS BRITISH ANIMAL welfare organisation VIVA announces its latest success in dissuading UK supermarkets from selling kangaroo meat two dozen prominent national and international welfare organisations have joined forces on an open letter explaining why Australians should stop looking the other way and stand up against the ethically bankrupt, cruel
Bush Heritage at Scottsdale shoots wildlife, again
Bush Heritage charged with misleading donors about kangaroo cull
THE AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY for Kangaroos (ASK) alleges: “An internal source from Bush Heritage Australia has contacted (us) exposing their plans to slaughter 500 kangaroos and their joeys at their Scottsdale reserve 75km south of Canberra (near Bredbo)." The shooting may have started at the end of June and may continue until
Googong kangaroos targeted in ACT annual slaughter.
FOI documents reveal ACT told futility of culling at Googong (and elsewhere) back in 2004 This year the ACT government plans to slaughter kangaroos in the Googong reserve in NSW for the first time since 2004. Googong reserve and neighbouring Googong and Burra residential areas are part of Queanbeyan - Palerang
Mother’s day killings start again + aggressive spin
Editorial by Maria Taylor Our neighbour across the border exhibits a fine sense of irony about motherhood. The ACT, encouraging the idea that killing and cruelty to animal families and dependent young is what we, Australians, do with our wildlife, once again around Mother’s Day announced the next in its notorious
Whistleblower’s conviction overturned
Chris Klootwijk’s response to his acquittal: “It’s great! I’ve been promoted from ‘crim’ to ‘pest’.” ACT failed to have valid license to shoot wildlife Court report by Frankie Seymour The ACT Supreme Court has overturned, on appeal, the conviction of a man for ‘hindering a government official’ by blowing a whistle during the
Isaacs Ridge: ACT delivers bike trails and death in the afternoon
A holiday long weekend, the Queen’s Birthday. As Canberrans congregated to enjoy themselves, the ACT government death squads came again for the kangaroos. No evidence of habitat or species requiring protection on Isaacs Ridge. “Otherwise the commercial pine plantation, orienteering events and the trail and outdoor adventure park would never have