Australia: The Truth about Kangaroos

Kangaroos are the victims of the largest land-based wildlife massacre in the world. Every year the kangaroo industry kills millions of kangaroos for their meat and skins to make pet food, footwear and meat for human consumption. Their joeys are wrenched from their pouch and bashed to death, decapitated, shot or left to die as orphans from starvation, dehydration, stress or predation. Hundreds of thousands of joeys are dying this way every year in Australia due to the kangaroo industry.

Kangaroos are not in plague proportions but at critical densities of less than five per square kilometre across most of Australia. Since 2001 kangaroos have declined by 55%. Kangaroos are not farmed but hunted by the industry in the wild at night without supervision from vets or animal welfare authorities...

Source: The Truth about Kangaroos
Author: Australian Society for Kangaroos

Link: Activists ready to disrupt cull of 2000 roos
Link: Kangaroos at risk
Link: Minister for Environment: Stop the Slaughter of Kangaroos in ACT
Link: Stop Australia's Wildlife Slaughter


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