Wow, this story must have the tree huggers terribly conflicted. Kangaroos or the darter snail? It looks like the kangaroos win...in the conservationists’ hearts. Maybe it’s because kangaroos don’t have flatulence...or something to that effect. Unfortunately for the hoppers, they don’t win in the sights of the Australian army:
"Australia’s army has started shooting 6,000 kangaroos to thin their population on an army training ground near the capital, an official said Friday, outraging conservationists who have vowed to protest.
The killings are intended to protect endangered plants and insects that share the grassy habitat with the kangaroos. A much smaller slaughter of 400 kangaroos on another Defense Department site in Canberra last year was disrupted by protesters."
Doesn’t Australia have any wealthy rednecks? You’d think they could raffle off licenses to kill 100 kangaroos for a hefty sum, thereby saving their army the expense and making a profit.
I’m curious, incidentally, about how the kangaroo population got so large. I saw Crocodile Dundee, so I know for a fact that Australian rednecks routinely go about killing them.
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