Australia's Invading Camels Will Be Fed To Crocodiles

Treehugger:

Drought conditions and a recent heat wave are being blamed for driving some 6,000 camels into residential areas near the Docker River, where they have been competing for water with cattle--much to the dismay of the town's 350 inhabitants. So desperate for assistance, they've enlisted the help of a meat-processing company and local aborigines to thin the camel numbers--by feeding them to crocodiles.

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Comments

[SweetJudith]

05:29 PM on 02/16/2010

This is insane!! This can't be allowed to happen. Humans kill anything that creates problems, especially when humans have most likely caused the problem in the first place..
When in doubt, kill them.
This will be fought hard.... We won't let it happen......

[robbor]

04:58 PM on 02/13/2010

why don't the australians feed themselves to the crocs

[doriath22]

11:02 AM on 02/13/2010

Good on yer, mate. Now, if only someone can figure out a way to get right of the sodding cane toads!

[blueskybigstar]

09:50 PM on 02/12/2010

That's a crying shame. If you have to put them down, at least honor the life of such tasty and noble beasts by making use of their meat.

[gage]

03:01 PM on 02/12/2010

There were some camels running wild in the US's Southwest for years after the Army's Texas-California camel expedition. The Civil War started right then, and the camel program--and camels--had to be abandoned. They never got anywhere near to the numbers found in Australia though.

[markinaz]

02:09 PM on 02/12/2010

Don't Middle Easterners eat camels? Slaughtering the camels and sending the meat to Dubai sounds more humane than a painful being eaten alive by crocs scenario.

[gage]

02:55 PM on 02/12/2010

The camels will be slaughtered and processed and the meat sold to crocodile farms. They're not going to throw the camels in there alive.

[rf dude]

08:13 AM on 02/12/2010

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What - they ran out of bunnies to feed to the crocks???

[Tom95134]

03:25 AM on 02/12/2010

Good. At least the Aussies don't have some kind of distorted values about what to do with something that concumes resources and is of no value.

[nemain]

01:45 AM on 02/12/2010

There is an alternative, how about humanely neutering them. I am sure australians waste money on less sustainable crap.

[Tom95134]

03:27 AM on 02/12/2010

You destroy them and feed them to crocs because if you just neuter them they continue to eat, and eat, and eat, and eat. If you'd ever been to Australia you'd understand why you don't want them around consuming scarce resources.

[gage]

03:08 PM on 02/12/2010

That's pretty hard to do with 6000 camels, especially the females.

[mikefina]

01:39 AM on 02/12/2010

6,000 invaders? Pish-posh.

We need crocodiles in the Rio Grande.

[urchinsadrift]

10:34 AM on 02/12/2010

Excellent idea!

[gage]

03:07 PM on 02/12/2010

There are alligators in the Rio Grande, in some places.

[desthmoneses]

09:23 PM on 02/11/2010

That's just nature for you. Humans are an animal like any other, and we'll kill over resources, doubtful that will ever change.

[SaltyLassi]

08:56 PM on 02/11/2010

Humans are basically bloodthirsty, self-centered narcissistic beings. It's not right to introduce an animal to a place, then start killing it when it inconveniences us.

[nemain]

01:43 AM on 02/12/2010

BRAVO!!!!!! GREAT STATEMENT!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!

[quindy]

10:05 AM on 02/12/2010

Why were camels introduced to Australia?

[Ann Joyce]

10:56 AM on 02/12/2010

back in the 1800's

[gage]

03:05 PM on 02/12/2010

For transportation across the Outback.

[NinjaWolfHybrid]

05:55 PM on 02/11/2010

Competing for water with livestock - sounds like the ranchers call the shots in these parts. The camels are an invasive species from India, that are usually able to scratch a living in the arid Australian wilderness. There is probably no alternative to culling their numbers, since they are invasive, but I think it is a shame to see big intelligent animals massacred. The camels probably thought they'd found heaven when they saw the lush river-bank environment.

[Ann Joyce]

11:12 AM on 02/12/2010

sadly, an animal that competes with resources reserved for our livestock will suffer this fate, look what is done to our wild horses and wolves.....