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[Roadtrain]

Das ist schon krass, man bringt ja auch keine menschen um nur weil es mal etwas knapp an Wasser ist !

Und das Beste: In Canberra wird immer noch schön weiter das Palament gewääsert, alles es grün und dafür haben die pappnasen Wasser, aber anstelle das Sprinkeln der Grünflächen einzustellen tötet man lieber die Kangaroos.

Knackies eben !

[mossy]

Langsam glaube ich die Aussies haben einen an der Klatsche !

[oz-explorer]

Hier ist der Original Bericht aus Australien. Auch sehr viele Tierschützer in Australien wehren sich jetzt !
Urgent Action:
Kangaroo Massacre in Canberra

The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government is currently trying to kill 1,000 kangaroos and up to 1,000 joeys at Googong Dam, outside Canberra. They have accused them of contaminating the water supply, but have refused to carry out non-lethal solutions like building a fence around the dam. Animal rights activists have been at the dam each night to stop the massacre by creating a human shield.

The shooters have been instructed to shoot female kangaroos in order to reduce the population. At this time of year female kangaroos have baby ‘joeys’ in their pouch - so for each female killed a joey is also killed. Joeys are killed either by decapitation or by being bludgeoned to death.

Incredibly, Googong Dam is a wildlife refuge and has been used by local wildlife carers as a release area for kangaroos they have hand reared. It is heart breaking for the carers who have spent months or years rearing joeys to now have them shot. A local wildlife group has asked the ACT Government if they could take the joeys that are orphaned when their mothers are shot, however the Government has refused the offer.

Unlike the millions of kangaroos that are shot every year in Australia for their meat and skins, the massacre at Googong Dam is happening under the glare of the world’s media. Unbelievably, Australia promotes itself using the image of a kangaroo – whilst in the ultimate betrayal clubbing and blasting them off the face of the earth. We know that Australia is extremely sensitive to criticism from overseas, and there is already concern that tourism to Canberra could be negatively affected.

Please send the following email (or even better adapt it or write your own!) to Jon Stanhope, the Minister responsible for this brutal massacre of kangaroos. You can email him here: >>>SPAMSCHUTZ!! >EMAIL BITTE PER Private Nachricht erfragen (Login erforderlich!)<<<.gov.au . Also, please send a copy to Joe Hockey, the Minister for Tourism. You can email him here: joe.hockey.>>>SPAMSCHUTZ!! >EMAIL BITTE PER Private Nachricht erfragen (Login erforderlich!)<<<.gov.au

Find out more about the massacre in Viva’s latest press release

Email Template:

"As a British citizen I am horrified to read about the barbaric massacre of kangaroos at Googong Dam wildlife ‘refuge’, outside Canberra.

As someone who has considered visiting Australia, but my view of your country is rapidly worsening. I am especially horrified to learn that the largest massacre of land animals on the planet takes place in Australia each year when millions of adult kangaroos are shot for their meat and skins. Millions of orphaned baby joeys, "worthless" to the industry, are shot, stamped on, clubbed over the head or abandoned to die. This is no different to clubbing baby seals to death – and it should have no place in a civilized country. It is difficult to believe that Australia promotes itself using the image of a kangaroo – whilst in the ultimate betrayal clubbing and blasting them off the face of the earth.

I understand that what is happening in Googong Dam happens every day in Australia hidden away in the outback, only this time it’s happening in front of the world’s media.

Please work towards finding a non-lethal solution to the current situation. Surely the building of a fence around the dam will be much cheaper than the huge amount of tourist revenue you will surely loose."

Mehr Infos: http://www.savethekangaroo.com/what_you ... gdam.shtml

[Sunny Sunshine®]

Wir bauen fuer einen Kunden in Australien gerade eine neue WEB-Site / HP mit Thema Kanguruh's -in Bezug auf das Abschlachten/Tierschutz- auf.

Es wäre sehr freundlich wenn Du mir bzw. meiner Frau ein paar/mehr Infos zukommen lassen koenntest incl. WEB-Links / Seiten etc, auch Bildmaterial so fern es frei zu benutzen ist.

>>>SPAMSCHUTZ!! >EMAIL BITTE PER Private Nachricht erfragen (Login erforderlich!)<<<.de oder >>>SPAMSCHUTZ!! >EMAIL BITTE PER Private Nachricht erfragen (Login erforderlich!)<<<.com

Sofern die Startseiten fertig sind poste ich den Link hier. Im Voraus herzlichen Dank fuer Deine Muehe. Den Petitionslink habe ich mir schon abkopiert und werde ihn mit einbauen.

[oz-explorer]

Hats sich schon etwas getan ??

[oz-explorer]

Wir bauen fuer einen Kunden in Australien gerade eine neue WEB-Site / HP mit Thema Kanguruh's -in Bezug auf das Abschlachten/Tierschutz- auf.

Es wäre sehr freundlich wenn Du mir bzw. meiner Frau ein paar/mehr Infos zukommen lassen koenntest incl. WEB-Links / Seiten etc, auch Bildmaterial so fern es frei zu benutzen ist.

>>>SPAMSCHUTZ!! >EMAIL BITTE PER Private Nachricht erfragen (Login erforderlich!)<<<.de oder >>>SPAMSCHUTZ!! >EMAIL BITTE PER Private Nachricht erfragen (Login erforderlich!)<<<.com

Sofern die Startseiten fertig sind poste ich den Link hier. Im Voraus herzlichen Dank fuer Deine Muehe. Den Petitionslink habe ich mir schon abkopiert und werde ihn mit einbauen.

Hi Sunny gibt es die Seite von Dir ???

[oz-explorer]

So what's going on?

One of the key issues in this matter is the lack of data. There is no short or long term management plan for Googong Dam. There is no data on why killing the kangaroos will stop the erosion. There is no assessment of other sources of erosion or pollution. We do know that it costs 10 times as much to treat Googong water, than it does for any other catchment in the area.

There has not been an environmental impact study (EIS) done, or any other study that we can determine. We do now know that blue-green algae is an issue after it was slipped at the meeting with Environment ACT. Apparently the dam was infested with algae last summer.

There appears to be no attempt to deal with runoff from adjacent grazing properties. In Queensland cane farmers are required to build contour banks and direct polluted runoff into settlement ponds before it is released into creeks and rivers. Yet here at Googong we have all this manure and farm chemicals going directly into a city water supply.


Photo:One of the adjacent sheep properties at Googong Dam (this image was
taken the day before the protest).

Fishing is permitted in the dam area, and visitation is high. Yet the kangaroos are being blamed for all this mismanagement and between 800 and 1100 kangaroos will be killed to try to address issues which have little or nothing to do with them!


Erosion

The reason given for the kill is that the kangaroos are causing erosion and that will impact on the Canberra water supply. We can understand the erosion concerns, but kangaroos?

Soft footed animals such as kangaroos do not cause erosion. So what causes the erosion at Googong Dam? Adjacent properties have cattle and sheep on them. Some of those properties are heavily overgrazed, and have an inch or so of cattle and sheep manure in the paddocks. As well, people go fishing in the dam. We have suggested fencing, revegetation, planting sacrifice crops, Guardtex, and even temporarily feeding the kangaroos away from the dam.

But no, the government has rejected all those options, and intends to kill the least of the problem, hoping a fairy with a magic wand will come along and remedy the real causes. They used to say the Democrats lived with the fairies at the bottom of the garden. Now that the Democrats have moved out of the garden, the ACT government appears to have moved in.

Treatment of Joeys

The Federal Code of Practice (COP), an unenforceable guide for shooters, recommends that in-pouch joeys be decapitated with a sharp instrument or have their heads bashed in with a heavy object.

This COP is currently under Review, by the managers of the various State Kangaroo Management Programs. The Review has been sitting for over two years, and yet a Draft document has not been produced for public discussion.

In this instance wildlife carers have asked whether the joeys can be collected and handed over to local carers for rearing and rehabilitation. Unfortunately that would not be allowable under the regulations governing the commercial Industry. Any such changes to the Code can only be made through the review process. Then there is the issue of where can they be released. With shooters now being allowed to kill kangaroos in Protected Areas, they will almost certainly be killed eventually anyway.

For decades local carers have been releasing rehabilitated orphaned and injured joeys into the Reserve at Googong. Now those animals are being killed. After all the work, expense and heartache of getting joeys to the release stage, now these animals are being killed. No wonder people are angry.

There have been suggestions that the COP should be amended to specify that joeys should be killed with a lethal injection when the mother is shot. Such an amendment may take years to go through the Review process, and it doesn’t address many other issues that arise.

The bottom line is that there is no monitoring of the COP, so it is impossible to determine what actually happens in the field.


Media and Letters

Reply from Minister Jon Stanhope to letters of concern.
Thank you for your representation of 13 July 2004 regarding the culling of kangaroos within the Googong Foreshores reserve. On the basis of the conditions and kangaroo numbers at Googong Foreshores a cull of 800 kangaroos is being undertaken at Googong Foreshores to protect the Googong water catchment.

The Googong Foreshores reserve acts as the final filter for water entering Googong Dam. As a result of prolonged drought, the kangaroos at Googong have reduced the groundcover to a level that presents a serious threat to the quality of water entering the Dam. If left unmanaged, parts of the area will be reduced to a combination of bare dirt and faecal pellets, which will be washed into the dam when the next heavy rains finally come.

I have no intention of allowing this situation to arise. Conducting a cull at this time is considered the most humane and effective option to ensure kangaroo numbers in this area are reduced to a manageable level. The cull will be undertaken by professional accredited shooters under permits issued by the NSW Government and in accordance with the national code of practice for the humane destruction of kangaroos.

This process is being closely monitored by the ACT Government Veterinarian to ensure that this occurs. I am advised that the kangaroos within Googong are starving. Environment ACT rangers report that the animals are in a very poor state and are now grazing on plants that are not within their usual diets. The NSW Government recently commenced the commercial harvesting of kangaroos on a trial basis in the south-eastern region of NSW due to the high numbers of kangaroos in the area.

My Government has elected to trial this system in this situation as Googong is within NSW. The protection of the water catchment is of paramount importance. My government will not hesitate to take whatever steps are necessary to protect the integrity of our city's water supply. Other suggested options, such as building a fence to exclude kangaroos from the entire foreshores area, are simply unfeasible and unfair to adjacent landholders.
The decision to cull kangaroos in the Googong Foreshores reserve was not made lightly. However, in these times of severe drought and water restrictions, this is considered the only prudent response to the threat that the kangaroos pose to our only water catchment that was untouched by the 2003 bushfires. . Thank you for raising this matter. I trust I have addressed your concerns.
Yours sincerely
Jon Stanhope
MLA Minister for the Environment.