Kangaroo culling criticised by Japan
Japanese reporters have lashed out at the proposed culling of kangaroos in Australia. The Japanese reporters see it as a case of double standards, comparing the culling with whaling.
Australia's Agriculture Minister Tony Burke was in Tokyo yesterday, defending the culling.
The culling of four hundred eastern grey kangaroos has been postponed due to the public voicing their anger.
Mr. Burke claimed that endangered species would suffer if the number of kangaroos are not reduced at the defence site. A report that recommended the cull states that native green grasses and three threatened species are at risk unless there is a cull. Kangaroos in the bush are culled in the millions every year due to overpopulation, and the meat is used mainly for pet food.
Mr. Burke also brushed off comments from several wildlife protection groups that this was a case of hypocrisy from Australia, who strongly opposes whaling for scientific and commercial reasons by the Japanese. He claims that this is "different circumstances" to that of whaling by the Japanese.
Source - AFP
Australia's Agriculture Minister Tony Burke was in Tokyo yesterday, defending the culling.
"If they are not culled, there will be many more than 400 facing death from starvation," he told reporters.
The culling of four hundred eastern grey kangaroos has been postponed due to the public voicing their anger.
Mr. Burke claimed that endangered species would suffer if the number of kangaroos are not reduced at the defence site. A report that recommended the cull states that native green grasses and three threatened species are at risk unless there is a cull. Kangaroos in the bush are culled in the millions every year due to overpopulation, and the meat is used mainly for pet food.
Mr. Burke also brushed off comments from several wildlife protection groups that this was a case of hypocrisy from Australia, who strongly opposes whaling for scientific and commercial reasons by the Japanese. He claims that this is "different circumstances" to that of whaling by the Japanese.
Source - AFP
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i guess we could say we were killing them for scientific experiements . . .
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However we never get told of the injustices that are happening within our own country.
Perhaps it is just easy to deflect the attention to another country rather than having to face our own issues.
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I'm a bit in two minds about the kangaroo culling. I don't like it. But then if they're going to starve anyway, isn't it better to do it more humanely. I live near a pretty grassy area (but in the middle of town) and during a bad time of the drought, there was a kangaroo hopping around there, which was obviously going into different territory in search of water or food or something. The kangaroos can become quite a pest when there's too many of them.
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There are MILLIONS of KANGAROOS!!
There are only HUNDREDS OF WHALES, in some of the specie types
Blue whales, I think the experts guesstimate about 300 to 400 in the world are left.
This is getting towards, or is passed, the expected extinction level of a species.
The Japanese will try anything to cover their guilt of WHALE MURDER!
It interested me to read a report recently, where the reporter stated that a whale meat shop was checked out by this reporter, and besides the nice kiddie blue and pink flffy whale toys loaded in the shop window, there was a fridge at the back filled with descete boxes, of whale meat!
The was empty, and no customers for 30 minutes while it was watched, this is in Tokyo, that gives you an idea of how popular it is over there.
So why hunt whales? Some people are now saying the Japanese are using whales as an excuse to have a maritime presence in the waters below us, waters we claim are ours, (but it is not recognized by the UN), in waters that may well contain oil...soon we may see warships protecting the whale ships....
An interesting theory eh wot guvnah?
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These 'Roos would starve to death due to the major overpopulation, it's is much better for them to be humanley put down. Moving them isn't particularly easy either, there are no kangaroo trucks like there are cattle trucks....Any comparison to the whale hunting situation just boggles the mind!
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There obviously not in short numbers.
The most I ever saw was about 2 - 300 at once.
Yeah, they're not endangered.
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