Australia: End the Camel Cull
- by: Care2.com
- recipient: Australian Feral Camel Management Project Leaders
Camels allowed Australians to explore and settle in the country. Instead of honoring the camel's vital role in the founding of Australia, the government's recent call for a camel cull has marked camels as nothing more than a menace.
Australia has the highest camel population of any country. The animals originally began to breed in the wild after the British introduced them to Australia from India and Pakistan in the 19th century. Now that they thrive, Australia wants to cut their numbers.
Camels became fair game in 2009 when the government decided to spend AUD$19m to eradicate at least 1/3 of the camel population. Private contractors often shoot camels dead from helicopters, leaving their remains where they fall in the desert. Needless to say, alternative approaches exist but have yet to be properly explored.
Ask Australian Feral Camel Management Project leaders to find an alternative to a mass killing of wild camels.
Dear Australian Feral Camel Management Project leaders,
Camels have helped Australia become the nation it is today, and the cull set to kill at least a third of them when other options could be explored is rash and devastating.
[Your comments here]I urge you to find alternative methods of controlling camel population numbers and oppose the current mass killing approach.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
