In February 2024 I find myself in the footsteps of Dr Jim Cairns (former deputy PM) in precisely the same venue, the Melbourne Town Hall, and talking about precisely the same topic, Kangaroos.

This analysis gives Kangaroo population estimates (from 2002) and quotas and actual take since 1980 for the Australian mainland.

A rebuttal of international concerns regarding treatment of Kangaroos from the New South Wales Legislative Council.

The story of one little Kangaroo and her short life.

This analysis describes actual take in New South Wales to 30 September 2024 (including returns due on 10 October 2024).

Italian MPs and leading companies stand up against the commercial slaughter of Kangaroos.

The NGO International Film Festival is held in Melbourne some 50 years after Andrea and I first came to the city.

Kangaroo silly season is coming as population estimates and quotas are announced. The Kangaroo facts for Victoria are these..

Unprotection of Australian wildlife is sinister, despite Victorian Government claims, because there are no controls over what happens.

Ellen Sandell MP, the eminent state member for Melbourne, attempts to shed a light on the Kangaroo situation in Victoria.

The Senators’ Kangaroo Protection Act would ban the sale and manufacturing of products made from Kangaroo skin, as well as the sale of Kangaroo skin itself.

Given South Australia’s Kangaroo Inquiry, the opportunity arises for a thorough review of the Draft Commercial Kangaroo Management Plan.

As per usual, Queensland is the first to publish it latest Kangaroo population estimates and commercial quotas. Here they are.

Thursday 12 September 2024, the South Australian Government approves Kangaroo Inquiry.

An intimate portrait of mothers and joeys from Andrea Hylands.

Why are, what the world perceives to be iconic species, treated with such distain in Australia? The answer lies in the decades of propaganda and a colonial past.

The Nature Knowledge Channel holds the data for the commercial exploitation of Kangaroos in South Australia back to the early 1970s.

This story gives an analysis of the commercially exploited Kangaroo species for 2024 based on data entered to 6 August 2024.

This analysis reports the actual number of Grey Kangaroos killed in Victoria for commercial gain in the first six months of 2024.

A new round of Kangaroo nonsense is being spruiked by journalists and Victorian Government politicians. We look at the reality.

Warning, this story contains images of extreme suffering.

Statewide surveys have been conducted in 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2022. The next survey will be in the latter months of 2024.

In 2023 the actual number of Kangaroos killed for commercial gain was 1,362,185, our forecast for 2024 is 1,224,700.

This analysis gives the 2023 actuals against quota for Victoria (data published on 29 July 2024) and ATCW data including killing on public land.

Professor Steve Garlick (NSW) makes the point that someone always has to clean up the mess resulting from government wildlife polices, the someone is a wildlife carer.

The changes to the proposed new South Australia Commercial Kangaroo Management Plan are not only predictable, but they will also be devastating for remnant Kangaroo populations in the state.

Years of reporting on wildlife massacres in Australia does not make this grim task easier. This recent massacre of one hundred Kangaroos in Victoria was particularly vile.

The plan: Seven nature reserves across the ACT will be closed from 9 June until 1 August 2024 for the ACT’s annual Kangaroo Management Program.

Professor Steve Garlick, Possumwood Wildlife, compares the Queanbeyan Nature Reserve (NSW) and the adjoining Jerrabomberra East Grasslands Nature Reserve (ACT).

“People don't do such things!” Henrik Ibsen. Well in Canberra, it appears they do.

When it comes to the environment and biodiversity, in Victoria we end up with a very long list of red flags, here are just 5. No high fives about it.

When it comes to what we see in Australia regarding the treatment of Kangaroos, we can only describe it as deeply degrading of a civil society and the kinder and clever world so many of us want to create.

An alarming increase in native wildlife killing in 2023. During 2023, 2,482 ATCW permits were issued to lethally control 119,367 native Australian animals in Victoria (Australian mammals and birds).

This story provides brief insights into the confronting world that describes the relationship in Australia with Kangaroos. We take you back to the early part of the 1970s.

The commercial exploitation of Kangaroos in Victoria has nothing to do with mitigation of harm, but everything to do with commercial gain.

So what happened to the Victorian Government’s 2023 consultation regarding the commercial exploitation of Kangaroos in the state?

This analysis follows up our story Pandora’s Box: Koalas in Victoria, and the news is grim as well as predictable.

This analysis summarises how many Koalas were rehabilitated and how many were euthanised by Zoos Victoria since 2018.

This analysis updates the 2022 numbers, estimates the outcome for 2023 and provides comparisons for 2020 to 2024.

This analysis of the situation for Kangaroos in Western Australian in 2024 completes the analysis of all states and mainland territories in Australia for that year.

This analysis summarises the population and quota data for 2024 for the states which commercially exploit Kangaroos.

“All Kangaroo species in South Australia are protected under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972”. Well, perhaps not.

Talking to Shai Ager from The Agile Project during the flooding, Shai describes how this catastrophe for wildlife in Far North Queensland unfolded.

We can be certain of one thing, commercial shooters will not reach the quotas in 2024, because the population estimates, yet again, appear hyper-inflated. This leads to quotas that are far too high.

The population estimate of the four commercial species in 2023, from which the 2024 quota is derived, was 9,634,900 (down from 11,882,215 in the previous year).

To all our Nature Knowledge Channel’s friends around the world we wish you the very best for 2024. You can be certain of one thing, we will be out there fighting to protect and save the world’s precious biodiversity.

The Nature Knowledge Channel was blocked from attending the opening media event of the Koala Hospital in August 2022.

Public lands are next in the endless exploitation of Kangaroos in Victoria.

Under no circumstances should the commercial exploitation of Kangaroos be allowed to occur on public lands in Victoria.

Commercial exploitation of Kangaroos: Codes of Practice have failed to modify the industry-wide use of inhumane practices at all or resulted in any improvement of animal welfare outcomes.

This story attempts to piece together the history of mass killing of native Australian species in State and National Parks in Victoria. Over 100,000 Kangaroos have been targeted since 1984, when the killing began.

Three species, the Red Kangaroo, the Eastern Grey Kangaroo and the Wallaroo are exploited for commercial gain across six shooting zones in Queensland. They plan to turn 2.5 million Kangaroos into pet food in 2024. No chance of that.

10,420,536 protected native animals were killed in Tasmania in a nine year period from mid 2013 using ‘protection’ permits issued by and promoted by the Tasmanian Government, RTI documents reveal.

Quarter 2 and 3 Summary 2023 Reports for Victoria’s ‘Kangaroo Harvesting Program’ were finally published, after much chasing, in late October 2023. This is what they reveal.

The night had been a noisy one, after the heavy monsoon rain of the afternoon there had been enough sunshine left in the day to take some of the moisture from the wet ground.

Sitting silently in the bush alongside a Wallaby is always a joy, these are wonderful and gentle animals.

With the increasing likelihood of another bad fire season in 2023 we look back at what went on just three years ago.

This story provides a series of short reflections about the treatment of wildlife in the State of Victoria.

Washington D.C. Leading a bipartisan group of three Republicans and three Democrats as sponsors introduced the Kangaroo Protection Act, H.R. 4995 to ban the sale of kangaroo body parts in the United States.

Modest in scale, the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art manages to curate both fine and deeply intellectual exhibitions. This time we are here to see an exhibition, which touches at the very heart of our concerns for the natural world.

The Victorian Government has invited the public to comment, via a survey, on its latest Kangaroo 'harvest management plan'.

Disturb or destroy that habitat and you will exterminate the species as surely as if you had shot it.

We make another journey through place and time and discover that context matters.

Commercial Kangaroo harvest quotas are never met.

Licences to harm are non-commercial permits and with few exceptions are issued to kill protected Australian species in NSW.

Kneeling in the soft and warmed evening sand. Letting these fine and warm grains trickle through fingers, knowing this is a beautiful and ancient place.

This analysis of the situation for Kangaroos in Western Australian in 2023 completes the analysis of all states and mainland territories in Australia for that year.

Here there is a beauty formed by nature and time.

Amid silly claims and population estimates, what are the facts, how many Kangaroos are being processed for commercial gain?

Commercial Kangaroo shooters operate during the night and are not required to advise residents when and where they are working.

In 2021 in Victoria, just 2.6 per cent of the permits issued to ‘control’ Australian wildlife were for non-lethal control.

Mr. Gore, who went out this day with his gun, had the good fortune to kill one of the animals which had been so much the subject of our speculation.

Matina Tsaloumas’ poetry is inspired by the beauty and the destruction of the natural world, history, social upheaval, everyday life, and great poets through the ages.

The Australian public believe that their wildlife is protected, if they believe that they will be wrong.

It has not rained for a long time, the last big rains about a year ago, sending water down the now dry riverbeds.

This analysis discusses the events in the United States regarding concerns about Kangaroo welfare issues and resulting actions.

Shockingly, and after the floods and years of mass killing of Kangaroos, the Victorian Government claims a 24 per cent increase in Kangaroo populations.

In outback New South Wales, where there is an estimated population of just under 3 million Kangaroos, we counted just one living Kangaroo.

The latest claims of population increases represent a step change in the scale and scope of the killing as they relate to the improbable claims being made.

What follows are our reflections on the state of wildlife, particularly Kangaroos, during extensive journeys by road across the Australian continent.

In the State of Victoria, here are some of the ways in which Australia’s native wildlife is killed, mostly with enthusiastic government support.

The ACT continues to be a leader in developing policies that push the limits of what is being done to Kangaroos, what is ‘lawful’ and what levels of cruelty are acceptable

In this story we travel to snow country and meet the snow monsters.

Diane, from New South Wales, sounds a warning of things to come in Victoria.

Victoria and South Australia, so what happened to wildlife during the fires and the original COVID pandemic?

It is remarkable that in the heat and dry of the Australian interior that there is such an array of plant life. The desert in spring sparkles with flowers and seedpods.

We go back to 2017, we begin with an island, far from the Australian mainland and remote in the Indian Ocean.

Nature is so incredibly precious, we disrupt the natural world at our own very great peril. Here is some history.

If you want to be really angry about what is happening to wildlife populations around the world, Queensland is a very good place to start.

Britain began its relationship with the Kangaroo in a painting by S T Edwards, published as an engraving in Museum Leverianum in 1796.

We spend a lot of time in the Northern Territory and see very few Kangaroos.

The species of Kangaroo available for commercial exploitation will include three new species.

A film and a poem for the missing.

This is the model for all communities and reduces risk and conflict with wildlife.

This story documents the RSPCA’s attempts to close a regional animal shelter.

In this story we provide brief insights as we travel the world.

We take a journey back in time to 2017 and to Bathurst in New South Wales.

As each year goes by there are fewer and fewer animals in the wild. Reflections from 2019.

Snake Prakash’s life, as his name suggests, is snakes.

Peter Hylands says this is a subject that touches on my own childhood in the European Alps.