If it moves, shoot it: Kangaroos in the education state
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“All Kangaroo control on public land currently occurs through ATCW permits which are issued to the relevant public land manager. Public land managers can choose to instead access the KHP as a direct replacement to ATCW control under the KHMP 2024-2028”. Victorian Government, November 2024
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The talk, If it moves shoot it , Kangaroos in the education state, was given on behalf of our friends the Victorian Kangaroo Alliance at the 2024 Animal Rights Forum, held in the Melbourne Town Hall.
"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". Peter Hylands
Jim’s role was to provide a summing up of the event titled Protection of our wildlife. The event, held in October 1970, was compered by actor and broadcaster, Leonard Teale and chaired by Arthur Queripel.
Commercial quotas for Kangaroos are now so high that commercial shooters cannot achieve anything near the quotas, even as shooting zones expand, moves to begin (Vic) or expand (SA) commercial exploitation of Kangaroos on public land, more species are added to the commercial list, more females are killed (joeys die an unaccounted for death) and life for shooters is simplified by various government ‘innovations’. The probability is if the already too high quotas were ever met, that would mean that Kangaroos would vanish from numerous regions across the Australian Continent.
The full year commercial quota in 2024 in Victoria is 155,650. The Nature Knowledge Channel’s full year forecast for Victoria in 2024 is 69,900 (the 2023 actual was 72,232). So after 6 months of commercial shooting, 51 per cent of our forecast was met and just 23 per cent of the state’s quota for 2024 was met.
The actuals for the 2024 are as follows:
- Actual first 6 months 2024 – 35,945
- Quota first 6 months 2024 – 90,930
The Central Shooting Zone and the Lower Wimmera Shooting Zone, at 24,538 Kangaroos, accounted for 68 per cent of all Kangaroos killed for commercial gain in Victoria in the first 6 months of 2024. Concerningly, these two zones are being merged with zones with low levels of actual take as from January 2025 and vanish, and that makes ongoing comparisons far more difficult.
A shocking admission?
“All Kangaroo control on public land currently occurs through ATCW permits which are issued to the relevant public land manager. Public land managers can choose to instead access the KHP as a direct replacement to ATCW control under the KHMP 2024-2028”. Victorian Government, November 2024
“For decades, Kangaroo protection groups have been suggesting that Kangaroos killed on public land, including National Parks in Victoria, have been entering the commercial trade. The government has always denied this even though regular “culls” are carried out annually in several National Parks in Victoria. If they have not been entering the commercial trade, where have the carcasses been going? This may well be the first time ever that there is a “proxy admission” that Kangaroos killed on public land, including National Parks, under the ATCW system have been commercially utilised”. Peter Preuss
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