There are fears for kangaroos in Victoria after a Government report revealed malpractice linked to the Government’s Kangaroo Pet Food Trial.
The trial began in March 2014, in an effort to control kangaroo numbers but the Department of Environment, Land, Water, and Planning report has found 1 million kangaroos have died since the trial’s inception.
The report reads, “The key offences that have been detected or suspected are the misallocation of kangaroos against KPFT authorisations, overshooting the authorised number of kangaroos, shooters possibly providing incentives, including money, to landholders for access to kangaroos, and landholders providing false and misleading information on applications.”