How dare South Australia use the hairy-nosed wombat as its official emblem while it continues to bury this endangered species 'ALIVE'.

 

 

Wombats are trapped in their borrows and left to die from either lack of oxygen or starvation. What could be worse? BARBARIC! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Action must be taken NOW to protect and conserve the southern hairy-nosed wombat in South Australia.

 

 

The completely inhumane practice of wombat burrow bulldozing has been a "wombat control method" used by South Australian farmers for a very long time.

 

 

Ironically, the southern hairy-nosed wombat is the state's 'official emblem' (surely something to be proud of?) yet to date the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), the SA government authority in charge of protecting Australian wildlife has failed to act on behalf of the wombats to protect them and their habitat.

 

 

RSPCA South Australia also seems reluctant to become involved in what is obviously a cruelty issue. Culling – both legal and illegal - has long been present in the species, but unfortunately it is seldom carried out in a humane and legal fashion. As an easy alternative, wombat burrows are bulldozed and completely demolished, Often while wombats are still inside. This would obviously lead to a slow and painful death for the wombat or wombats trapped inside the burrow.

 

 

The illegal practice of wombat burrow bulldozing is happening in many parts of South Australia, predominantly in the Murraylands region, including the localities of Cambrai, Sedan, Sandleton, Eudunda, Kapunda and Dutton. Burrows on private and public land are being completely destroyed. Often burrows well outside any plough or cropping line are also destroyed. Wombats are being buried alive.

 

 

HABITAT:

 

 

The southernmost area of central Australia, including: the southern coastal region of South Australia, and the southeast corner of Western Australia. The Southern hairy nosed wombat's range once included the southwestern portion of Queensland, but it is now extinct there. Within its range, populations of the Southern hairy-nosed wombat are fragmented.

 

 

THE CULLING OF WOMBATS

 

 

One abhorrenlty cruel, and sickening method of culling hairy-nosed wombats is to  decapitate pouched young, yes South Australia also does this to its 'official emblem'.

 

 

The hairy-nosed wombat is currently listed as an 'endangered species'.