AUSTRALIA is in the midst of the worse drought since 100 years, but in fact
since records were established !
It is worsening every day, but the Howard, Gallop etc Governments do not
seem to care a bit indeed about the terrible situation.
Fully amazing !
Now, that terrible Drought is known by all down there as the DDD, or in
clear the DIVINE DRUDGING DROUGHT.
This, because some aware people clearly see in it, a definitive Divine
Punishment for a hushed up Collective Crime !
At the light of the following report, I am asking you all, Ladies &
Gentlemen, if the lack of
compassion & morality in Australia, as described below, is not, confirming
above mentioned allegation, the real de-facto cause
of the irremediable disaster brought by the DDD, and not the opposite !
PLEASE FORWARD this dramatic story to all ng you care, and this, for all the
world to know !
Indeed it's NOT a Kangaroo Battle, since none of the poor things fight
back, BUT on the contrary a real cold blooded Kangaroo Massacre,
carried out in the most gory manner, with a chainsaw to boost !
... yesterday, today and tomorrow !
Please read on and be edified.
From ABC NEWS ONLINE
THE KANGAROO BATTLE
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kangaroos are in record plague proportions, competing with livestock
for scarce food throughout drought-stricken rural Australia.
The spotlight reaches into the darkness of the paddock searching for prey.
The kangaroo sits upright, dazzled by the light. Seconds later a crack from
a rifle breaks the silent night air. The kangaroo slumps to the ground dead,
blood streaming from its head.
The corpses are slung on hooks on the hunter's truck and butchered under the
stars, using a small chainsaw, bolt-cutter and knives with the meat destined
for pet food.
The deadly ritual is repeated every few minutes until 15 kangaroos lay dead
in the paddock near Narrandera in New South Wales drought-stricken west.
Evidence of the carnage will be gone in days, but with hundreds of "roos"
still in nearby paddocks the night-time culling will continue.
This is the life of Australia's professional kangaroo shooter, damned by
environmentalists but praised by farmers for ridding them of one of their
biggest pests - the kangaroo.
Some 3.5 million kangaroos are culled each year, supporting a $200 million
industry based on the meat and skins, but numbers keep swelling.
The kangaroo may be a national emblem, standing with pride on Australia's
coat of arms, but with more than 58 million roos it is now in record plague
proportions, damaging the environment and competing with livestock for
scarce food.
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"iMAGE OF A CORRAL THERE WITH RUN DOWN FARMER
Drought-stricken farmers such as Kerry O'Connor from Oaklea station
near Gilgandraare in New South Wales face financial ruin.
With Australia in the grip of its worst drought in 100 years it is not only
the kangaroo that is fighting for food, but also tens of millions of wild
rabbits, pigs, foxes, camels, cats, goats and horses.
Australia has been invaded by at least 80 species of animals introduced
since white settlement more than 200 years ago.
The Federal Government's Bureau of Rural Sciences reports more than 30 of
these species are now declared pests, causing economic losses totalling a
conservative estimate of $420 million, mainly in lost agricultural
production.
The hungry introduced animals contribute to land degradation, destroy native
vegetation and cause soil erosion, reducing the number of sheep or cattle a
farmer can carry on his land.
More than $60 million a year is spent controlling the pests and another $20
million on pest control research.
But as the native kangaroos are not classed as feral pests, so there have
been no studies into the economic losses they cause.
Farmers say over-grazing by huge mobs of roos cause millions of dollars
worth of damage to drought-hit pastures and robs starving sheep and cattle
of much needed feed.
"IMAGE OF DRYING OUT SMALL POND IN HEAT PARCHED LAND"
Kangaroos and sheep gather around a rare waterhole to look for food on
a drought-ravaged station near White Cliffs in NSW.
The Macquarie River carries storm runoff from the slopes and tablelands of
central NSW north towards the Darling River but drought has reduced the
Macquarie marshes to a string of boggy waterholes.
This huge wetlands area usually supports an abundance of wildlife.
Speaking on ABC TV's The 7.30 Report, farmer Eric Fisher says he set aside
part of his property in the marshes as a conservation area but it is now
inundated with kangaroos.
"This area has been severely degraded by kangaroos here since the
surrounding country has really dried out," Mr Fisher said.
"If I shut the paddock up to restore it back to some semblance of grassing,
the kangaroos would only eat it out, so it's a pointless exercise."
"IMAGE OF THE REMAINS OF A DECAYING COW WITH BLOWFLIES AROUND"
A cow is left to rot in a dry paddock as feed runs out on Oaklea
station near Gilgandra in drought-affected NSW
Kangaroos can adapt to drought conditions but they are in such big numbers
this time nature has intervened.
NSW Parks and Wildlife service spokesman Terry Korn told the The 7.30
Report, under this drought condition they will die.
"They'll run out of feed and they'll die in huge numbers and that's what's
happening now - they're starting to fall over out in western NSW.
As the drought intensifies, so does the competition for the last of the
ground cover and as the feed in the paddocks runs out, the pressure from the
farmers for a mass cull of kangaroos grows.
Australian Museum director Professor Mike Archer supports kangaroo culling,
arguing harvesting wildlife will actually help its preservation.
"It's nuts to leave them suffering - I mean, there's no point in that,"
Professor Archer said.
"They should be culled, and they should be culled to the point where the
numbers that remain will be able to reproduce when conditions improve, and
that's what kangaroos do very well."
He says kangaroo numbers would have been better controlled going into this
drought if landholders had been farming them for meat and skins.
It would have also provided farmers with another source of income when they
needed it most.
"When you think about it, there are more kangaroos in Australia than cattle
and sheep, and yet we insist on focusing our attentions on harvesting cattle
and sheep when in fact there's a natural resource doing better," Professor
Archer said.
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