There is nothing humane about killing a peaceful, gentle animals that just want to live in peace. Not to mention the 600+ joeys that were burgeoned to death. That’s got to be wrong…just like the counting and the flawed science behind the kangaroos management plan.

The kangaroo population on Mt Ainslie had not increased to anything like the old overpopulation levels ahead of the recent cull. Anyone who walks around the back of Mt Ainslie can attest to this. I guess they are hiding but on my long walk today I didn’t see a single one. Which is unprecedented.

More lies from the ACT government. GonaCon is not a just a contraceptive, it’s another way of killing kangaroos by starving joeys of their mothers’ milk. In any case fertility control in addition to annual massacre of thousands is the last thing kangaroos need as they are dive towards local extinction land global extinction.

The ACT government does absolutely nothing to ensure the killing is humane. In fact the Code of Practice itself ensures it can’t be, requiring that joeys be bludgeoned or decapitated. By “completing these operations between March and July only”, the government does nothing to reduce the number of orphaned young” because joeys take 18 months to wean and several years to become dependent – so there is no time in any 12 month (annual) period where there are fewer dependent joeys.

The government’s assertions that the slaughter protects native and threatened species are rubbish, as they have always been. The science, along with the visible evidence right now, is precisely the opposite – the reserves are dying of massive weed infestations that would never have occurred if the kangaroos had been left alone.

The government has got pretty much everything wrong. Its kangaroo population estimates are wildly exaggerated because they are based on woeful ignorance of kangaroo behaviour. Their estimate of how many kangaroos should be there are based on a number someone pulled out of a hat on a “suck it and see” basis – then forgot to change when the evidence proved it wrong. Their estimates of kangaroo population growth are four times higher than is biologically possible for kangaroos because it doesn’t seem to have occurred to the government that kangaroos actually move around the landscape.

As for the ACT’s international reputation, it I had that kind of reputation, I’d slash my wrists.

The annual killing of kangaroos is nothing short of disgusting. The reason submitted for the kill are nonsense ie danger to native grasses, worms, moths etc and even kangaroos starving is ridiculous and the entire Barr government should be ashamed.

Who is buying this nonsense that there needs to be any killing of our kangaroos. Its neither required or humane, just watch the stressed joeys that are left fending for Who is buying this nonsense that there needs to be any killing of our kangaroos. Its neither required or humane. Only 9 out of the 37 reserves actually have any kangaroos on them. The other reserves have had the kangaroos shot out completely or almost.

RSPCA wont be receiving any support or donations from me anymore. I am horrified that the government is still saying kangaroos and wallabies are part of a non commercial killing. Absolutely disgusting. Shame on you conservator Bren Burkevics that is going along with this.

We know that kangaroos don’t wreck the environment, humans do. Anyone still in on the doubtful side please read the report, “CSIRO independent analysis: no support for kangaroo research assumptions”.

The 2020 fires killed billions of animals and to think we continue to kill despite the world watching in horror. The cull is embarrassing, we wreck havoc on the lives of so many innocent sentient beings.

Kangaroos are part of complex family groups, they do not live on their own. They feel pain and the loss of their family members, they hear the gunshots, see their family die and get extremely frightened. Can you imagine what these poor innocent beings are going through? This is an extremely cruel, senseless experiment. …

Write to your local representative. Or simply to Minister Rebecca Vassarotti as it’s under her portfolio.
The cull must stop.

The Australian govt is overseeing the largest slaughter of any wildlife in the world!
Kangaroos are being removed for developers, mining and big agribusiness
Its time the world boycotted Australia

Another instance, along with the forced evictions of ACT Housing’s Growing and Renewing Public Housing Program, of disgusting and heartless behaviour from the Canberra state government. I don’t support violence but the people behind these unconscionable schemes deserve to be “culled” more than the kangaroo populations of Canberra.

? They are not shooting bears, coyotes, tigers. Nope, it’s peaceful families of grass eating kangaroos, under cover of darkness, so we cannot see the unfairness. It’s like shooting cattle and horses. If the world could see this done in daylight in the suburbs on Canberra for 3 months rear after year, a bloke walking up to kangaroo after kangaroo, young and adult, shooting it through the head, the world would be in uproar. Then banging the pouch young against a rock or a tailgate.
If done in daylight, this would be scandalous.
Nope, typically they do it in the dark, and blame it on science.

Then the more we get those facts out to the rest of the world as we are now doing the better .Canberra is the Kangaroo Killing Capital of Australia and the world needs to know that. I think a big billboard as you enter Canberra putting up the fact that would at least let those coming to Canberra and trying to find kangaroos on the reserves to show their kids, would know to go elsewhere . There is certainly no point in going up on Farrer Ridge Reserve, just ask any local or local kid walking up there and when asked, will tell you they say NONE. Zilch. Oh but sorry, the Government with its don’t want to know Minister says there are 143 up there . I think they must have seen kangaroos in their sleep or something. And with $400 000 allocated in our stretched budget for another killing season next season, they are clearly intending to ignore anything anyone tries to tell them. Well we will not give up..We will make sure this dreadful business is exposed to the world in all its barbarity – oh and of course that figure of 1645 is not all . Ask the Minister how many hundreds more were killed in the form of the joeys pulled from the pouches of those several hundred females that would have been in that total and you get a deafening silence. Well we will prevail, we will get that number and we will make sure people know how those hundreds more died, bashed on a rock or whatever was handy at the time. An appalling indictment of this City and it is time it woke up to just what has been going on our reserves these past 12 years and is destined to go on ad infinitum till there are no kangaroos left, at cost of some $400 000 a year. What a price to pay for the cruelty involved.