Due to some shonky and unproven "science", the "Bush Capital" of Canberra has deemed that kangaroos are an "environmental threat"!
Canberra's tourism taskforce chairman David Marshall says that a boycott of Canberra could be "potentially dangerous" in an economic downturn. However, animal activists have very few avenues left as they do not have a lot of money, and the Administrative Appeals Tribunal didn't have the power over Defence or the city's administrators. Where can they turn?
Many businesses maybe currently struggling, but while there are dubious "experts" in control of major decisions, such as the mass slaughter of native kangaroos in the "Bush Capital" where tourists would expect to see them, they should expect repercussions!
Expert marksmen with rifles, decapitations of hairless joeys, and lethal injections for older joeys, cannot be so easily sanitised and justified! The public didn't buy the "starving" kangaroo excuse, and now these native animals are being treated as an "environmental threats" as if they were cane-toads or rabbits!
People and livestock add to economic growth, and wildlife only get a few tourists. So, they deny kangaroos even the little grass they eat! Native grasslands are being threatened by weeds, feral animals and human impacts. Kangaroos are a convenient scapegoat. Why don't the "experts" address the real threats?
Many businesses maybe currently struggling, but while there are dubious "experts" in control of major decisions, such as the mass slaughter of native kangaroos in the "Bush Capital" where tourists would expect to see them, they should expect repercussions!
Expert marksmen with rifles, decapitations of hairless joeys, and lethal injections for older joeys, cannot be so easily sanitised and justified! The public didn't buy the "starving" kangaroo excuse, and now these native animals are being treated as an "environmental threats" as if they were cane-toads or rabbits!
People and livestock add to economic growth, and wildlife only get a few tourists. So, they deny kangaroos even the little grass they eat! Native grasslands are being threatened by weeds, feral animals and human impacts. Kangaroos are a convenient scapegoat. Why don't the "experts" address the real threats?
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