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Imagine all the piles of kangaroo shit lying around.

I'm not sure where I stand on this. First, you can automatically throw out their reason for doing this in the first place because nature has a way of correcting itself. Second, the whole ecosystem could be thrown off balance by this. Third, WTF do I care? They're kangaroos, not people.

Nature can't keep up with the way we keep screwing it around though. First they introduced rabbits, which bred out of control because there were not enough natural enemies. I think that's where the dingo came in but I'm not sure.

Now there's too many kangaroos and
Nature can takes years or decades or more to correct itself, but that doesn't work when we're involved. I wonder if we're also responsible for the opportunity to overbreed?

there are too many kangaroos because they are protected from their natural predators and man, the ultimate predator isn't allowed to hunt them.

It's probably a good idea to cull the kangaroos. It's like having too many sheep, and goats eating all the vegetation down to their roots, causing soil erosion and general damage to the environment. better to cull now, than to watch them die from starvation in the near future.

although it would be inhumane to kill them, we should find a way to make kangaroo meat as edible as cow............mmm mmmm mmm hey mom can i have another slice of pouch?

Well I believe the Abbo's have been eatin' kanga's for years. Probably B4 the first Euro's learned how to act semi civil :).

Anyway I think the key point was the DOD saying "103,782 acres of land, home to the army's Puckapunyal training ground, was being threatened by the kangaroos." I want to know how the Army of Australia was "threatened" by Kangaroos? Have they got WMD's??? For fucks sake a Nuclear Bomb got let off in one of the north eastern territories by the same people who released Sarin in Tokyo's subway's and they barely registered it.

Questions, questions, but few answers.... Any Ozzie out there got an answer?

"They're comin' right for us!"

Actually some bright spark crossed the dna of a roo with an elephant in order to slow them down and make them easier to catch.Jusy left bloody big holes all over Victoria.

If we let nature 'correct' itself, then there would be a hell of a lot of kangaroos slowly dying, and when they doo that, they wander into urban areas... by the hundreds.

For starters i'll tell you this. We're not talking about cute cuddly kiddies toys here... kangaroos are big fuckers. They stand as tall as a man and are much stronger, and far angrier.

It's not our fault they've overbred. There's 19 million of the bastards in Australia at the moment, mostly because just before the drought started, there were rare optimal conditions in the heartland of OZ, and noone was allowed to shoot them. Now there's a drought on, there all heading south to graze on important monocultures... and we can't have that.

I'm living not that far from Puckapunyal at the moment, and i can tell you there are thousands of the fuckers around. I can tell you this cause you can't drive faster than 80 km/h at night here at the moment... if you hit one of those things, your fucked.

You don't believe they're threatened? Try sizing up to one of those bastards... they'd rip you to shreds. I've lost countless dogs to Kangaroos when i was young. Believe me, if you have big buck kangaroos hopping through urban areas, you have problems.

By the way, we do eat roos, just not wild ones... too many diseases.

The answer to P'Punyal's problem? Shoot 'em all...

PS. It's only Victoria... noone really cares ;)

Are there natural predators for kangaroos? I've seen them before I know they are pretty big and can get pretty nasty too.

I think that it's better to thin the herd then to have them slowly dying and decaying (possibly in urban areas). If they naturally correct themselves then disease, disposal, and other problems could arise.

As far as i know, only the Dingo, which, does a piss poor job anyway, plus there are bugger-all of them left.

We can't shoot them anymore (legally) so, no, there aren't any...

i grudgingly support this culling.

while i wish the effort that was going into this culling was being redirected towards feral animal problems such as buffalo, cane toad and pigs, i realise that this is definitely not an endangered species and overpopulation like this greatly harms the ecosystem as a whole.

huh?

Hey, now McDonalds can have a new meat source. :)

Someone run that Nuke part past me again. I missed something here.

MSD, the only time Nukes have gone off in Australia was during the British testing, 50 years ago!

i´ve no idea what Geckos talking about.

north eastern territories?
a japanese cult with Nukes?
blowing them up in Australia?

Gecko, where did that all come from??

Having worked on an army base(Myambat)near Denman a couple of years ago I know first hand of the problem with over population of roos in a fairly dry area.We had to constantly kill roos that were to weak to fend for themselves thus dying of starvation,and that was by bludgoning them to death with a tyre lever or what ever else was handy.As this area was an ammo dump no fire arms were alowed on the base,the only real way to control the problem is by culling by professional shooters.
Kangaroo meat that goes through the same process that beef and sheep do sells in australia for about $18A a kilo and is extremly health meat with little or no fat contenet.

I'm curious about Mad_Gecko's comment as well.

Maralinga in South Australia was used by the British and Australian army for the testing of nuclear bombs and radiation fall-out in the mid fourties.There has never been anything but testing done in Australia.

right mate...let's fro somm roo on da barbie

roos are a pest in many parts of OZ
i have lost count of how many i have cleaned up in different cars i have owned over the years.
oh and you can buy Roo meat in supermarkets now.

I had no idea that kangaroos were vicious.

You somehow picture them as cute little buggers hopping around with big brown eyes and boxing with Sylvester.

Why is it that every species population in Australia seems to go wild (rabbits, dingos, kangaroos)?

You guys want a few racoons by the way?????? (We've got tons of the pesky buggers.)

Maybe you need some good Canadian wolves to take care of your "roo" problems. Never mind these piddly little "dingos"

Nothing like a good grey wolf to set things straight

Because they're wild animals?? The only places that kangaroos are friendly are zoos, cartoons, and the Deniliquin Golf Club...

If it's an army training ground, why not train the soldiers using live targets (the kangaroos). They could plot strategy using the latest hi-tech recon devices i.e. satellite photos, UAVs. Then mount an offensive using tanks, artillery, mechanized infantry and air strikes.

I'm about to wage genocide on geese here sooner or later. Dirty animals, way to many of them around here.

I live around there and I can say that when you have 4 kangaroos in your yard, a few bullets does the job