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Cull protest: Australian Wildlife Protection Council secretary Eve Kelly with Craig Thomson and daughters Eve and Rose beside one of the many holes in the fence. Pictures: Yanni
Call to curb kangaroo culls Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au A Mt MARTHA-based animal rights group has protested to the state government over what it calls “unethical” kangaroo culls at a Cape Schanck property. Australian Wildlife Protection Council secretary Eve Kelly wrote to Energy, Environment and Climate Change Minister Lily D’Ambrosio saying an Authority to Control Wildlife permit
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to kill kangaroos at a property on Patterson Rd was causing kangaroos to “injure themselves and die horribly fleeing the gunfire [while] trapped in sections of the land”. Ms Kelly included photographs of large holes in fences – said to have been cut by vandals – which allow the kangaroos to access the land on which they are killed. “We have serious concerns about the approval of this permit and the reasons given for why it was/is needed,”
she said, referring to a Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning statement that: “The owner of the property had tried other means to keep the kangaroos off the property, including kangaroo fencing, however, these were not effective.” Ms Kelly said a neighbour told her that the holes “had been there for over a year”. “Therefore, [DELWP’s] statement that kangaroo fencing was tried but ineffective, is untrue,” she said.
“A fence is not effective if there are large holes in it. The fencing is the landowner’s responsibility and the integrity of the fencing should have been assessed before a [cull] permit was issued. “The holes are allowing the kangaroos to access to the land, then when the cull takes place they are injured, fleeing the gunfire, and die horribly trapped in sections of the land. This is unethical. “Why was [the cull] permit issued before the landowner made all reason-
able attempts to fix the fence? Did a DELWP inspector attend the entire property and inspect the exclusion methods before issuing a permit to kill this native wildlife?” The owner of the property, GSA Bloodstock, was called for comment. DELWP’s environment, natural resources and fisheries regional manager Merryn Kelly said “all practical non-lethal control options must be exhausted before a lethal control permit is considered”. Continued Page 12
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