Hunt kangaroos or let them starve
Australia's kangaroo population is growing massively after abundant rainfall. If left unchecked, millions of animals face death by starvation.
60 million kangaroos expected
The kangaroo is Australia's symbol. After three years of La Niña, the population could grow to over 60 million. When food becomes scarce again, millions of animals face starvation.
Campaigns against the kangaroo industry
Animal welfare organisations denounce the commercial killing as a “cruel massacre”. Nike severed ties with kangaroo leather in 2021. In the US state of Oregon, a bill was introduced that would ban the use of “any parts of dead kangaroos”. More on the topic of species conservation and animal rights.
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More on the subject of recreational hunting: In our dossiers on recreational hunting gather fact-checks, analyses and background reports. What the research says about this is shown by Hunting fact-checked: the state of research.
The position of IG Wild beim Wild: IG Wild beim Wild rejects recreational hunting. Our model is the canton of Geneva, which has managed without recreational hunting since 1974: without hunting seasons, without hunting dogs, without driven hunts, without high seats, without the animal cruelty and crime that go hand in hand with hunting season elsewhere. What has worked there for over fifty years disproves every position paper by JagdSchweiz. An association that bases its policy on claims it refutes in its own documents is not a professional organisation, but a factory for misinformation.
