Australian Wildlife Protection Council

Day: October 30, 2024

Campaigns

Australia conducts the world’s biggest on-land wildlife slaughter

Share this page Australia conducts the world’s biggest on-land wildlife slaughter National icon, sports symbol and tourist draw — yet these unique Australians, the family of kangaroos, are hunted every night and slaughtered, as ‘pest’ or product, in their hundreds where they fall in back country of every state. Butchered in the field, packed bleeding in the tray of a ute, hung in primitive field storage for days. The covered-up reality of a world-leading wildlife slaughter and trade. Killed for petfood, sausages and shoe-leather Do you know this happens and is tagged vital Australian business? Do you know the risks of consuming bushmeat? Can you keep looking away? An Australian Wildlife Protection Council public information campaign —supported by Animals Australia, Save Canberra’s Kangaroosand Animal Protectors Alliance.

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