Kangaroos are some of Australia’s most well-known and treasured native animals – yet every night across this country, they are the victims of a secretive and cruel slaughter…for profit.
This is why Animals Australia is a proud sponsor of World Kangaroo Day, led by our friends at Kangaroos Alive, who are working tirelessly to share the hidden story of these mistreated native animals, and what people the world over can do to help save them.
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Despite grave concern from wildlife experts and the Australian public, five Australian states allow legislative wildlife ‘protections’ to be lifted so that kangaroos can be shot under commercial licences, or by landowners with ‘management permits’.
Even after the Black Summer fires destroyed habitats, while rescuers worked tirelessly to save fire-affected kangaroos, governments across Australia continued to allow shooters to kill them.
Due to questionable counting methods that lack transparency, there are fears that official estimates of kangaroo numbers could be hugely inflated – an issue raised in the eye-opening documentary ‘Kangaroo: A Love-Hate Story’.
As the killing of kangaroos often occurs in remote locations, effective monitoring of the shooting is nearly impossible.
Shockingly, the relevant laws specifically allow for cruelty like the decapitation and bludgeoning of joeys to death when their mothers have been killed. There are also no statistics available for the number of kangaroos who are wounded by shooters and escape, only to endure long and painful deaths from exposure, injury, or predators.
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