Bushfire to gunfire: Locals speak out
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“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”.
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Despite floods, catastrophic fires and mass shootings including for commercial gain during the last five years, the Victorian Government claims yet another 18 per cent increase in the population of Eastern Grey Kangaroos in Victoria.
“Comparison of estimates of abundance for 2022 and 2024 (both derived using the new, model-based methodology), points to a change in abundance (across the entire survey area) of Eastern Grey Kangaroos from 1.76 million to 2.09 million between 2022 and 2024. This represents an increase of approximately 18 percent. In comparison, the number of Western Grey Kangaroos decreased slightly, from 227,000 to 212,000, a decline of approximately 7 per cent. For both Grey Kangaroo species, there was substantial overlap between the confidence intervals of the 2022 and 2024 population estimates, meaning certainty in the actual percentage changes in abundance was low”. Victorian Government, December 2024
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'.
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.
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.
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