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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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Western Victoria
In Western Victoria the fires continue to burn and more and more of the Gariwerd National Park is being destroyed.
In this place of utter devastation and changing commercial shooting zone boundaries, this is the recent history of how many Kangaroos the Victorian Government had planned to kill.
The story for the Lower Wimmera shooting zone (now integrated into other commercial shooting zones), one of the two most impacted shooting zones since the commercial exploitation of Kangaroos was introduced to Victoria is as follows:
- The original commercial quota for Lower Wimmera to end September 2024 was 30,000 - to end September the actual was 16,077 - around 53 per cent of quota. In 2024 the original full year commercial quota was 39,000 (since revised down to 28,600 with quota allocation in the Lower Wimmera for Q4 now set at ZERO).
- In 2023 the full year commercial quota for Lower Wimmera was 41,000, actual take was 19,463, that is 47 percent of quota.
- Going back to 2022 the story for the Lower Wimmera was this - the commercial quota was 30,550. The actual commercial take was 18,671. That is 61 per cent of quota. This was the year that the wheels began to fall off with allocation adjusted down by 7,640.
- In 2021 the commercial quota was 25,850 revised down to 22,450, actual commercial take was 19,420. Lower Wimmera had the highest commercial quota of any zone in that year.
The story for the other two shooting zones in Western Victoria as they existed prior to the changes to commercial shooting zone boundaries in January 2025. The story is a grim one:
- For the Upper Wimmera shooting zone in 2024 the original commercial quota is 17,800, actual take to end of September was 2,659. Q4 commercial quota for this shooting zone also set to ZERO. The use of ATCWs in this zone is also very low. The actual full year take for this zone in 2023 was just 4,134. Given our own investigations and surveys in the far west of Victoria, Kangaroo populations have declined significantly as the actuals indicate.
- Kangaroo populations in the Mallee shooting zone (also now integrated) have collapsed due to long term over shooting.
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