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Professional shooters in helicopters will begin the cull operation this Wednesday and are expected to be finished within five days. In that short period of time, they’ll have killed 10,000 of the feral animals. “For many years traditional owners in the west of the APY Lands have mustered feral camels for sale, but this has been unable to manage the scale and number of camels that congregate in dry conditions,” a spokesperson for the SA Department of Environment and Water told news.com.au. Managers of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands approved the mass kill, saying feral camels are causing havoc in local communities “We have been stuck in stinking hot and uncomfortable conditions, feeling unwell, because the camels are coming in and knocking down fences, getting in around the houses and trying to get to water through airconditioners,’’ Marita Baker, board member of the APY executive, told The Australian. Her community of Kanypi is one of many to be invaded by feral camels recently as the parched pests search out scarce water. |
