Australians took out licences to kill more than 1.2 million native animals and birds last year alone, with kangaroos and wallabies comprising almost half the animals killed.
But the licensing scheme masks the full scale of the legal killing of native wildlife on private land, with the true figure closer to 2 million.
Analysis of licence applications, some obtained through freedom of information laws, shows Tasmania was the wildlife killing capital of Australia, where 675,640 native animals were killed on private land last year. Gaining an accurate portrait of the scale of wildlife deaths in Australia is difficult, however, due to differing licence regimes in place across the country. Western Australia is yet to release last year’s figures, while only Tasmania and the ACT release the number of animals killed, rather than the number of licences issued.
Humane Society advocates non-lethal methods of protecting crops and livestock, including fencing and companion animals like donkeys, alpacas, dogs and llamas, which are used to protect sheep.
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