Documents released by the ACT government under Freedom of Information and published by Save Canberra’s Kangaroos reveal that four thousand, three hundred and two pouch joeys have been clubbed to death over the last five years in Canberra nature reserves. These deaths were not humane. Death is supposed to be delivered by a single blow to the head but, in the real world, with a terrified, struggling animal, this is virtually impossible to achieve.
This staggering number is only the number to which the government has confessed. Numerous eye witness accounts, as well as the testimony of a government-nominated “expert”, have confirmed that entire ghost populations of at-foot young are left orphaned by the ACT’s slaughter every year. These babies die slowly of hypothermia, dehydration, starvation, and myopathy (a particularly painful and deadly form of stress).
Even if the so-called science allegedly supporting the government’s kangaroo extermination campaign had not been utterly debunked by actual scientific research by CSIRO and actual counts of kangaroos on reserves, who, calling themselves a humane being, could possibly support such violent mass slaughters of innocents?
- F. Seymour, Queanbeyan NSW
Want to share your opinion?
Email [email protected] with ‘To the editor’ in the subject field; include your full name, phone number, street address (NFP) and suburb. Keep letters to 250 words maximum. Note, letters may be shortened if space restrictions dictate.
