Kangaroo populations still problem in ACT
Southern Cross Ten (Canberra), State Focus, 30/03/2008 08.41am
Pat O’Brien, Wildlife Protection Association, speaks about the cull of kangaroos on Defence land in Belconnen. He says the kangaroos could have been transported instead of killed and that the ACT Government won’t let them be exported.
Dr Maxine Cooper, ACT Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment, says O’Brien is taking a ‘one species’ focus. She says the kangaroos are on a site that is too small for their numbers and that there are fewer predators to manage the numbers. She says she is consulting with someone from the University of Melbourne, a CSIRO vet, and the CEO of RSPCA on the most humane way to deal with the kangaroos. She says it was decided shooting the kangaroos would be the most humane way but that the AFP wouldn’t allow this for human safety reasons. She says sedating and euthanizing is considered the next-best option. She says some reptiles are threatened by the size of the kangaroo population.
Interviewee: Pat O’Brien, Wildlife Protection Association, Dr Maxine Cooper, ACT Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment.
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