Protect kangaroos: Pledge to never buy kangaroo meat or products.

By day, kangaroos feature in tourism ads and delight visitors to Australia – but under the cover of darkness, these native animals are ruthlessly killed for the sake of profit…

Their young joeys, who aren’t of value to the commercial kangaroo killing industry, are brutally killed in ways that most people would never condone.

Many people are shocked to discover that the Australian Government permits this shocking slaughter of Australia’s treasured kangaroos. Even after disasters kill countless native animals and destroy swathes of their habitat – like the devastating Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 – commercial shooters continue to kill kangaroos, all while rescuers work tirelessly to save them.

It’s not only the kangaroos who are killed for their meat and skin who suffer immensely…

The in-pouch joeys of killed mother kangaroos are legally pulled from their mothers’ pouches and decapitated or bludgeoned against the tray of a truck or ground.

While unfathomable to most, decapitation and bludgeoning are the industry’s ‘acceptable methods’ of killing joeys, written into their ‘Code of Practice’.

Joeys who are a little older and out of their mother’s pouch are still completely dependent on their mother’s care and protection. These vulnerable babies are left scared and confused when their mothers are killed, and if they manage to flee the chaos of shooters descending on their family, they suffer painful and often slow deaths from starvation, exposure, or predation by other animals.

Due to the remote locations where commercial kangaroo shooting takes place, and the fact that it happens under the cover of darkness there is no effective monitoring of animal welfare. No industry body or regulator is tasked with monitoring how many joeys are harmed by shooters nationally, though it has been estimated that as many as 440,000 dependent young kangaroos are either bludgeoned to death or left orphaned after their mothers have been killed, in just two Australian states alone (New South Wales and Queensland).

Decision-makers in Australia continue to abandon kangaroos to extreme cruelty at the hands of the commercial kangaroo killing industry. Every kangaroo product sold – whether it be dog treats or ‘pet food’, meat sold in restaurants or supermarkets, or skins used to make shoes and other ‘leather‘ products – supports an industry that sees kangaroos and joeys as nothing more than dollar signs.

Pledge to never buy products made from kangaroos, and send a powerful message to governments and industries that caring people the world over want to see these precious Australian animals properly protected.