The Killing of Feral Camels

Kifaru Bwana said:
All I am suggesting is we do need to look at other methods of population control in order to maximise the benefits to the Australian outback arid ecosystems of any camel extermination programme.

K.B.
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It is fine to look at other methods but, there is only one proven way at the moment. As I stated earlier I believe extermination is impossable. While people are looking for extermination methods they are wasteing funds which could be used in control. The only permenent method of control is to get suficent markets to pay for people to remove them. This has to right across their range and include national parks and aboriginal lands.
 
The Environment Dept. staff member working on the introduced camel management programme favours an integrated approach. :cool:
 
Here is a recent report of a hunting trip, sounds like they did not see a lot of camels, or donleys which are another introduced animal which has gone wild and are now in large numbers.

Just thought I'd put a few words down about the AHI club hunt we had to WA on the Camels & Donkeys.

We ended up hunting on a property about 100 klms south of Newman, flew in there via Perth with 6 other hunters for a week under the stars hunting for those big camels & hard to knock down donkeys. We ended up with about 31 camels & 30 odd donkeys, hell there are a lot of animals out there, can't understand what they were living on, probably 100% browse.

The camels were positively fat, I cut & brought home about 20 kgs of camel back strap, its the best tasting organic venison I have ever tasted. Used the 300 RUM, with 180 grain Woodleigh protected points, they were devastating on the camels & donkeys, nearly all one shot kills.

The property had a constant stream of people, surveyors, explorers & the odd other shooter.

Beautiful red stony country, heaps of Red 'roos, must have seen over a 1,000 of them, no shortage of 'roos out there.
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Camels and a few other exotics (fox, rabbit, cane toad, rat) do not belong in the Australian outback and ecosystems. They all are having a huge and detrimental impact on wildlife and arid land vegetations. Hence, they constitute a environmental disaster of the proportions far greater and beyond the Victoria Lakes fish extinctions cycle. Something needs to give here!

Hunting per se is probably a very ineffective way to control camel (and donkey) numbers in the outback. Need to get creative there. What might be more species specific and effective?
 
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