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Bushfire to bushmeat: Locals speak out

Life on land

“Two significant National Parks in the west of Victoria have been consumed by fire as thousands of Australian native animals die in the fires. The surviving Kangaroos face the bullet and the pet food can”.

Frank Jesse, Dr Tamasin Ramsay, Jane Gibb

February 2, 2025

Most of the animals killed by the fire or from their injuries so far are Kangaroos and in the close surrounds of the Gariwerd National Park where the commercial exploitation and cruel killing of Kangaroos is operating at high levels resulting in significant reductions in Kangaroo populations. ATCWs are used extensively by Parks Victoria (Victorian Government) in National and State Parks to kill very large numbers of native animals, as of 1 January 2025 these permits can be switched to commercial permits at the discretion of the 'land manager'.

It is remarkable that it now appears that the Victorian Government intends to continue the commercial trade in wildlife, in this case Kangaroos, it has so promoted over the last decade. The justification for the mass killing is the ever increasing population estimates for these animals. The more they shoot, the more that die in horrific climate events, the bigger the population gets.

Claiming a population of 646,000 Grey Kangaroos in the most fire impacted shooting zones of the Grampians and Barwon South West, the Victorian Government still wants to kill a total of 64,600 Kangaroos in those zones during 2025.

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