The Australian government recently signed off on a plan to shoot 2,000 kangaroos living in Canberra's parks and nature reserves. Over the next six weeks teams of sharp shooters will fan out across eight parks and reserves at night, picking off eastern gray kangaroos that live in the grasslands.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/7845837/Australians-to-cull-2000-kangaroos.html

Kangaroo culls are inhumane and barbaric. The National Code of Practice for the Humane Shooting of Kangaroos and Wallabies advises that babies found in a slain mother's pouch be decapitated with a sharp blade; clubbed with a metal pipe; or slammed against a firm object. Older joeys are bludgeoned or shot at point blank range. Hunters spotlight kangaroos in the outback at night. They aim for their brains, but often miss and leave kangaroos with gaping head and mouth wounds. Along with nearly four million kangaroos commercially killed each year, hundreds of thousands of joeys die hideously.

Please ask the Australian government to stop the kangaroo culls, and to actively research and provide alternative solutions.