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Animal activists are stepping up protests against government plans to cull hundreds of kangaroos on an Australian military base. Here's the story.
STORY:
Wildlife Protection Association spo...
WONG: Animal activists are stepping up protests against government plans to cull hundreds of kangaroos on an Australian military base. Here's the story.
STORY: Wildlife Protection Association spokesman Pat O'Brien says the culling of animals that are identified with Australia could hurt tourism. Activists say they'll make human shields and demonstrate to protect the animals today.
[Pat O'Brien, Wildlife Protection Association]: "Managing wildlife by killing it is not on anymore. This is the sort of thing we did hundred years ago."
The Eastern Grey Kangaroos are living on a military communications base in the nation's capital Canberra.
Even former Beatle member Paul McCartney is speaking up. He appeared on a website set up by a British animal welfare group called Viva! to condemn the act. Viva! or Vegetarians International Voice for Animals, has launched a Europe-wide campaign against the cull. By Wednesday it had gathered more than 1,300 protests signatures from 36 countries.
[Bernie Brennan, Activist]: "If they have to dart them to kill them why can't they dart them to move? It's just a no brainer."
Authorities say the kangaroos threaten other local species through overgrazing, and is a way to look after the environment.
[Peter Garret, Australia's Environment Minister]: "I think that we've got a fantastic record in this country of caring both for our wildlife and for our environment."
In 2004 there was an international outcry over the shooting of 900 kangaroos at a dam supplying water to Canberra. The animals were causing erosion problems through over-grazing.
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Animals in the wild rip apart their meals while they are alive! But these greenies start crying when we give em a quick death! I want to massacre those kangaroos! They're everywhere! And they destroy the bush!
i bet these activists drove a car to protest, and wiped there ass with toilet papers from tree's etc if they want to stop everything they need to be stripped of all damaging things to the environment and then protest, take there clothes chemicals were used in there process, they are just narrow minded tree hugging pin heads, no place for them on earth, kangaroos dont give a shit about them trying to save them, they just want to breed and eat,
the reason why there killing roos is cause there killing dingoes this is what happens when you mess with wildlife but we never seem to learn like killing wil solve anything thing
fuck paul mc cartney i bet he wishes he could kill that bitch that ripped his arse in court roos ad whales are different one is endangered the other needs to be controlled more die on a country road in oz in one night than a few in the capital
Oh I dont know - killing of a few fat "Sheila's" would actually improve the Australia tourist industry, especially if they issued licences to cull them would cater to the lucrative hunting industry.
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