04/10/2026
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Bounties have been collected on more than 80,000 kangaroos slaughtered in South Australia since 2025. 🤬 In all national parks and for the first ever the Adelaide Hills. When I go to the Adelaide Hills I rarely see any kangaroos why would you kill the few we have???
I believe it’s because they’re holding a high-speed rally race in the Adelaide Hills this month in October, so they don’t want any kangaroos to stop the race. A race that is held in springtime which raises serious questions about wildlife. This is when many native animals such a koalas, wombats, echidnas, kangaroos and other are busy raising young, with parents constantly moving around crossing roads searching for food and returning to nests, hollows and burrows. The noise, vibrations traffic and crowds from rally cars can frighten and scare wildlife to death. Surely the timing and location of such events should take into account the needs of the wildlife that calls the Adelaide Hills home and the safety of the drivers.
According to wildlife rescues and experts the Kangaroo Population numbers are being inflated as an excuse to justify these culls, Hunters often exaggerate animal numbers for their own selfish agenda, but true native populations are far more fragile than claimed. while millions of taxpayer money is used to pay cruel hunters to shoot our beautiful iconic kangaroos for fun, sport, and financial gain. Instead of funding this cruelty, these public funds could be directed toward vets to implement humane fertility control programs. However, the government knows that doing so would risk losing the votes of shooting and hunting unions groups who are sadistic and driven by profit and a disregard for innocent wildlife.
It’s time to rethink how we manage our native landscapes. Hunters claim that species like kangaroos, deer, and goats are overpopulated, but the reality on the ground especially for our native wildlife is very different. Far from being a pest, these animals graze on overgrown vegetation and undergrowth, acting as a natural buffer against massive bushfires. Grazing animals help clear overgrown vegetation and understory, reducing fuel loads naturally.
A Waste of Taxpayer Funds: Instead of letting wildlife manage undergrowth, we spend millions on controlled burns.
Yet, instead of valuing this natural ecological balance, taxpayer money continues to be poured into costly controlled burn-offs. These burns terrify local wildlife with fire and smoke, worsen air pollution, and destroy the very vegetation that native animals rely on for survival.
See here for more details:,https://au.news.yahoo.com/detail-in-5-bounty-on-iconic-aussie-animal-slammed-as-seriously-flawed-190006910.html
