Animal Culling

Animal culling is the selective removal of animals so that some can live comfortably and reduce the amount of disease. Animal culling is often the answer to overpopulation. However, uncontrolled culling may lead to the endangerment to species and wildlife. The numerous kangaroos at Puckapunyal should be culled, as they are becoming a menace to the neighbouring Puckapunyal community. Dr Graeme Coulson, a kangaroo ecologist and senior lecturer in zoology in the University of Melbourne, …

…themselves. Without a doubt, the kangaroos should be culled in order to improve the lives of the remaining kangaroos as well as ridding the farmers in the area of an annoying and costly pest that could have harmed little children too. If we allow these malnourished marsupials to continue to multiply, there will definitely be an outbreak of disease, degradation of the land and competition between the kangaroos and the livestock herded by neighbouring farmers.