Common sense may prevail if new laws are passed that will allow farmers to cull native animals.
Labelled a game changer by farmers that are currently required to apply for a licence’s to cull native animals such as kangaroos and wombats on their properties.
The act has already received opposition from the usual suspects. Many of which have never seen a day’s farming and believe that kangaroos are endangered.
The new biodiversity conservation act will go before state parliament for approval next month.
If enacted, it will remove the need for a licence and also mean harming a native animal during land clearing would no longer be a crime.
NSW Farmers Wagga branch chair Alan Brown said this would mean farmers could successful control kangaroos which were wreaking havoc on Riverina farms.
The marsupial destroyed fences and forced livestock to compete for feed, he said.
“We do need a simpler method to control these animals and reduce their impact on the whole landscape, because there is far too many of them – you see them on the road where ever you go.”
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