Ten thousand wild camels will be shot down in South Australia by professional helicopter shooters to prevent them from consuming water in the drought-ravaged region.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himTen thousand wild camels will be shot down in South Australia by professional helicopter shooters to prevent them from consuming water in the drought-ravaged region.
The killing is expected to last five days and the order was issued by the head of the Aboriginal community of Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara after complaints from the population that the animals invade their properties in search of water and their flatulence contributes to global warming. .
Thus, while the arrests for arson and almost continue 4 million hectares of land they have already been lost, now comes this other bad news, as if the fact that 480 million animals have already died due to the fires that are ravaging Australia were not enough.
Unfortunately, this ordinance is not new, every year the camel management program provides for a number of them to be killed for fear that they may drain the few sources of water, very precious and sacred sources for Aboriginal communities.
“Camels are breaking down fences, invading our homes to reach water sources, they are everywhere,” explains a member of the community.
For the National Feral Camel Management Plan, without a control plan, the wild camel population could even double every nine years. According to Tim Moore, CEO of RegenCo, "one million wild camels emit methane equivalent to one ton of carbon dioxide per year, polluting as much as 400 cars on the road".
So on the one hand, the shortage of water, on the other, pollution: for these poor wild camels there seems to be no escape, despite the Department of Energy and the Environment having stated that the emissions of wild animals should not be considered in the Estimation of a country's emissions as they are not managed nationally.
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