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Beach walk with emus 🤎

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In sync with dad

06/11/2025

Birds by the sea 🌊

05/06/2025

It's that time of year again where the ACT government slaughters kangaroos in 'nature reserves' during the night. Men with military style weapons start shooting, fear and carnage fills the air. Blood spilt amongst kangaroo families, some are lucky to die instantly, others left to suffer. Joey's are petrified, dragged from their mothers pouches then bashed to death, or left to die alone of starvation and hypothermia. Wallabies and wallaroos are also targeted. Families are separated causing them to flee onto roads in distress. In what world is that humane? In what world is that not traumatic for these social creatures.

Despite what lies the government might spin, whether it's for the greater good of other native species or to stop overgrazing grasses, there is no scientific evidence or proper investigations of the impacts of the cull on the environment, or the kangaroos themselves. An even sicker joke, is that where these vulnerable grasses and endangered moths are, are now being grazed by cattle, who do more harm than a kangaroo ever would.

Most Canberrans are unaware that 5 million dollars worth of tax payer money each year is spent on the slaughter of kangaroos. Money that could be better spent on crucial ways to co-exist such as reducing speed limits in known areas, wildlife overpasses and virtual fencing. To top it off, the ACT government does not allow wildlife rescue/carers to attend kangaroo call outs, or even rescue viable joey's. This means more inhumane suffering for injured kangaroos hit by cars left on the roads for hours, and joey's that could have stood a chance are left to die.

The colonial view that any native wildlife that gets in the way of profit, whether it's development or competing with livestock, is seen as a pest, is a tired view and one that we must break the cycle of. It's time to start educating ourselves, sign petitions, write to your local members, attend protests. The more people aware the better. If you would like to help support and follow Save Canberra's Kangaroos .

* I took this photo at Potato Point NSW where local kangaroos and wallabies co- exist peacefully in harmony with humans.

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Eye above the sea