Canberra kangaroo cull makes the NY Times

A-U-S-T-R-I-A!

Pay attention, Sepi: I was having a go at some Americans lack of knowledge of the world outside of the US or A! 🙂

Implied, sepi. Either that or a massive shifting of goalposts.

We object when african nations kill their endangered species.

Did I say they were endangered?

I was saying that relying on nationalistic arguments like ‘it’s our country we know what to do with our animals’ is stupid. This is what is bringing in international protesters.

I don’t care about the cull either way.

can we do a people cull while we are at it? we could start with all the types of people i don’t like. which would mean there would only be me left. Me and the kangaroos, we could be so happy together. We could be soooo cute!!

I’m fairly certain that kangaroos aren’t in any way an endangered species, sepi.

Feel free to continually disregard the ‘they’re bloody well starving to death due to overpopulation’ argument, too.

Whoosh….. over sepi’s head…. as usual….

Yes Kangaroos are native to Australia, but so what?

We object when african nations kill their endangered species.

I’m not fussed about the kangaroo cull, but the arguments need to be well made (eg – too many kangaroos, no other solutions). Not just ‘it’s our country back off.’

Guru, that’s true. I do agree with culling at some levels, but I think 400 of the same mob of kangaroos being culled simply because they’re on the wrong slab of land is excessive and not necessary.

Aren’t Kangroos native to Austria?

One fact in the article that I haven’t seen anywhere in the Australian media anywhere is this:

“Last year, state governments issued permits to cull 3.7 million kangaroos…”

Admittedly, they go on to say that only about 2/3 of these are actually shot, but that’s still 2+ million kangaroos killed each year. And we’re getting upset about just 400???