Save Canberra's Kangaroos-HELP STOP THE SLAUGHTER
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Hello.
Our group is Save Canberra’s Kangaroos (SCK) and we are seeking funds to raise public awareness of the crisis facing kangaroos in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). The ACT government’s slaughter of thousands of kangaroos every year is inherently cruel, senseless and ecologically catastrophic.
Donations will be used to promote the desperate plight of the ACT’s kangaroos, locally, interstate and internationally. Funds will pay for the printing of flyers, posters and stickers, for published advertorials, for social media promotion, and for other options such as advertising on an electronic billboard.
Moving forward into 2024 SCK is continuing to seek funds to help finance our campaign to stop the kangaroo slaughter. Some of the strategies we want to use include: running stalls, purchasing software to better organize, mobilize and win.
Background - Why are we focused on the ACT when kangaroos are in crisis across Australia?
Kangaroos are in crisis across Australia as a result of the combined impact of the commercial meat and skins industry and persecution as agricultural ‘pests’. The methodology used to estimate kangaroo populations has been exposed as deeply flawed. Consequently, kangaroos everywhere are, in fact, being killed much faster than their populations can grow.
However, it is the ACT government that has pioneered the idea of persecuting kangaroos as environmental ‘pests’, concocting a body of pseudo-science to blind the public to what appears to be, in fact, an extermination campaign.
It is this egregious misuse of the public’s concern for the environment, and this misuse of taxpayers’ money, to exterminate a native species, that makes the ACT a special case.
Over the last year, many more Canberrans have become aware of the facts about what is happening in the ACT and the plight of our kangaroos. Canberra is the nation’s capital, and many events are coming up which bring thousands of people to the ACT, including many from overseas.
We need to raise funds to share the truth about our kangaroos with as many residents and visitors as possible.
What information do we want to impart?
- That shooting kangaroos is cruel, unnecessary and harms the environment.
- Kangaroos are a keystone species, critical to maintaining the other native plants and animals that share their habitat. There is no evidence that they have ever, even in times of extreme drought, overgrazed their habitat.
- Kangaroo families are terrorised night after night, for months, year after year, on Canberra’s nature reserves - areas of protected land where they are meant to be safe. Those that are not killed by the first shot may take hours, days, weeks or months to die of horrific injuries.
- Stress is often fatal to kangaroos and the level of stress caused by recurrent large-scale shooting is extreme. Kangaroos also die fleeing the shooting into the high-speed roads and barbed wire fences that surround and bisect their habitat.
- Dear little pouch joeys are (by law) either decapitated or bludgeoned to death. Even more horrific, orphaned at-foot joeys that escape shooting die of dehydration, starvation, hypothermia, car strike or predation.
- The government falsely claims that the killing is to protect the ecosystems of the reserves. In fact, the real risk to these ecosystems is constant erosion by encroaching urban development.
- In fact, many residents believe that it is the government’s obsession with developing every scrap of vacant land in the ACT that is motivating its eradication of the ACT’s kangaroos.
The flyers [and other material] will provide:
1. Information about the plight of kangaroos in the ACT.
2. Where you can get further information, including references.
3. How you can help [eg. the petition, sign letters etc.].
This GoFundMe page is attempting to raise $7,000 [initially] to cover the cost of publicity about how our beautiful kangaroos are being slaughtered. [Examples: flyers, stickers, advertising on an electronic billboard].
4. SCK has set up an email action for all local MLAs in the ACT. We have a goal of sending 200 emails over the next two months before the sad announcement of the 2023 kangaroo “cull”.
All you need to do is follow this link: https://savecanberraskangaroos.good.do/savecanberraskangaroos/MLA-email-action/
Fill in your postcode, name and email. Then make sure the right MLAs have popped up for your electorate, if not you can type in your full address in the postcode section to get the right MLAs.
Then you can either press send on the template email we have written for you, or you can personalise it with more information!
Should take a matter of minutes to do this so would appreciate if everyone could follow these steps :)
Organizer
Robyn Soxsmith
Organizer
Harman ACT
