Australia, criminal order to exterminate camels

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Published by Dario Dongo on 8 January 2020

Camels in Australia

Australia, we recall, it was conquered by the British Empire to establish a criminal colony there. The camels of the dromedary species - from present-day Pakistan - were brought there by the British as pack animals. Robust mammals with great strength and moderate nutritional demands.

The dromedaries they were domesticated and widely used in agriculture. Until the settlers, with the advent of machines to work the land, abandoned them to nature. Where the resilient animals, returned to the wild, have multiplied and spread throughout the territory. There are currently an estimated 1 million wild camels in Australia, 60% of which live in the desert areas inhabited by Aborigines.

The value of camels

Il camelus dromedarius of generic Pakistani present in Australia is one of the most efficient breeds in the production of milk. Each camel produces from 5-7 up to 15 liters per day (in alternate years, between lactation and pregnancy). In addition to offering (in spite of themselves), in case of slaughter, 350-500 kg of meat.

The average value of an adult dromedary in Australia is 2 thousand dollars, in Europe about 6 thousand €. And the cost of its breeding is variably lower than that of cattle, due to its greater resistance to disease and the ability to grow healthily with only wild herbs or fodder and salt (except for possible additions to increase profitability). (1)

Camel massacre in Australia, the 2011 attempt

Already in the 2011 the Australian government had decided to order the extermination of 650.000 wild camels. With the raving excuse of wanting to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (!). But why blame the animals instead of coal-fired power plants and deforestation (already underway in neighboring Southeast Asia then). to produce palm oil)?

The lively reaction of the scientific community and some breeders then induced the idiots in the government to give up the massacre. (2) All the more unjustified as wild dromedaries represented less than 1% of the island's ruminants, where it was estimated the presence of 40 million cattle and 100 million sheep (as well as countless pigs, donkeys and goats).

Extermination of camels, today's crime

The carnage begins on 8.1.20, behind a first government order to kill 10 wild dromedaries in 5 days. The reasons given are unjustifiable as well as lacking in evidence. In some press reports it is learned that the camels are guilty of drinking. As if you wanted to unload on them the inability of human beings to put out fires (often arson). Elsewhere we read that thirsty animals would approach inhabited centers to look for water. And yet we read - also on the BBC and The Independent (3) - the scientific aberration of their hypothetical contribution to climate change (!)

The large mammals they will be exterminated with machine gun shots, without even paying attention to reducing their suffering. And the damage will be far more serious than that which is falsely attributed to dromedaries. A food waste unmatched in the world. 2 billion people in the world suffer from hunger, even in countries close to Australia, and these barbarians eliminate and destroy animals from which thousands of tons of milk with high nutritional value, and possibly also meat. In addition to the damage to the biodiversity which these mammals have been part of for a couple of centuries.

The barbarians who conceived this slaughter of innocent animals say they want to tackle an 'environmental problem' using machine guns and helicopters. (!) And what will they do with the thousands of tons of carcasses bored by the bullets? They will have to move them with heavy vehicles and burn, to prevent epidemics. And what will be the impact on the environment of helicopters, bulldozers, trucks and cremations?

#Shame!

Dario Dongo

Note

(1) The International Society of Camelid Research and Development (ISOCARD) demonstrated the extraordinary metabolic efficiency of dromedaries which - compared to cattle - are on average able to produce 20% more milk, consuming 20% less food. Their energy metabolism is in fact closer to that of monogastrics (e.g. pigs) than that of real ruminants (e.g. cattle and sheep)

(2) Bernard Faye, The polemic enflege en Australie à propos de la gestion du troupeau sauvage de dromadaires, June 2012,

(3) See https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-51032145, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australia-wildfires-camels-shot-killed-helicopters-water-drought-bushfires-a9273366.html

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