Kangaroo Culling

Often I read about how lovely kangaroos are but not this time. A Reuters photographer follows through this controversial but deemed necessary activity of killing kangaroos by licensed government shooters in Australia.

Mobs of kangaroos can quickly damage the environment and compete with livestock for scarce food, impacting the livelihood of farmers.

But the saddest part why the government resorted to this was the effect of something that started way back some 220 years ago:

"After Europeans settled in Australia some 220 years ago, they chopped down millions of trees, and created much more grassland which the kangaroos have thrived on. As a result, their numbers have increased dramatically, and so in order to keep the natural balance for the environment to be sustainable (especially during a drought), their numbers have to be reduced. So actually, it’s our fault."

Millions of kangaroos need to be killed every year because it's the fault of us humans.