Save Canberra's Kangaroos

04/08/2025

Our posts have been unrelentingly grim and depressing during and since the ACT Government's massacres of kangaroos in 16 of Canberra's nature reserves. We apologise for being bearers of sad and devastating news. We greatly appreciate your support and we thank you for taking action where you could, showing the government that kangaroos have many supporters from Canberra itself, around the country and across the globe.

So here is some light entertainment - three joeys in soft release - safe from the ACT Government shooters, enjoying their lives and getting ready for life in the wild, where they belong. ❤❤❤🦘🦘🦘

04/08/2025

Here is Andrew Barr, Chief Minister, happily posing with Ruby Roo, the kangaroo mascot being used to promote Australia - and Canberra - to the world. Excuse us while we throw up.

04/08/2025

When is a sanctuary not a sanctuary? When shooters go in and slaughter hundreds of eastern grey kangaroos AND wallabies like this one. In this year's killing season, 125 wallabies were shot and 34 wallaby joeys clubbed to death inside the high fence of Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary.
It seems there is little tolerance for kangaroos, swamp wallabies and red-necked wallabies inside this 984 hectare property. Best to give them a bullet, rather than open a gate and let them escape across the border to NSW (not that that is a guarantee of a longer life, but it's a fair chance.) 💔
📷Jane Robinson

02/08/2025

Recent letters published in local papers! Well done to all letter writers on getting published.

01/08/2025

The Canberra Times has reported on the conclusion of this year’s kangaroo killings in Canberra’s Nature Reserves.

Animal Liberation ACT spokesperson, Carolyn Drew was quoted in the article:

"This is state-sanctioned violence of the rights of sentient, native animals," activist Carolyn Drew said.

"Kangaroos are intelligent, social beings with strong family bonds and the capacity to suffer. Yet each year, the government treats them as pests to be eradicated-reducing their lives to numbers on a spreadsheet."

It is not often that kangaroo advocates get their views quoted in Canberra Times articles, so we are pleased to see Animal Liberation quoted!

You can read the full article here: https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/9031131/kangaroo-cull-surges-in-act-due-to-dry-conditions/n

Why the number of roos culled was so much higher this year.

31/07/2025

The killing for this year has finally finished with 2978 kangaroos killed since 10 June.

However this number does not include the 1194 joeys that were ripped from their mothers pouches and either decapitated or bashed to death with wooden mallets 💔

The remaining kangaroos in these reserves will be traumatised and full of grief from watching their families members be killed in front of them.

Kangaroo advocates who were out night after night bearing witness to this brutal slaughter and trying to capture footage to bring light to what goes on in these reserves during the killing are also shattered from these last few weeks. But of course it can’t even compare to what these kangaroos have been through.

We again reiterate that the ACT Government’s kangaroo killing program is unnecessary, cruel and completely unjustified.

Our hearts are breaking for the kangaroos of Aranda Bushland Nature Reserve, Callum Brae Nature Reserve, Crace Grasslands Nature Reserve, Farrer Ridge Nature Reserve, Goorooyarroo Nature Reserve, Gungaderra Grasslands Nature Reserve, Isaacs Ridge Nature Reserve, Jerrabomberra East Grasslands Nature Reserve,
Jerrabomberra West Grasslands Nature Reserve
K**a Nature Reserve, Mount Ainslie Nature Reserve, Mulanggari Grasslands Nature Reserve, Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary, Mount Majura Nature Reserve, Mount Mugga Mugga Nature Reserve and Red Hill Nature Reserve.

The killing must stop.

30/07/2025

An advertorial in this week's City News by the Australian Wildlife Protection Council (AWPC). The ACT Government's unconscionable cruel treatment of eastern grey kangaroos and joeys is getting noticed. Our thanks to members of AWPC. 💔🦘

29/07/2025

Rebecca's letter to Canberra Times 27 July, Mandated cruelty to kangaroos in the ACT must stop. 🦘🦘🦘 Thomas Emerson

26/07/2025

URGENT: HELP NEEDED.
Do you live in the area around Canberra? Wildcare (which covers 22,000sq kms in SE NSW) has an urgent need for people willing and able to care for orphaned joeys.
There simply are not enough carers who can take care of these little joeys who need a human mum/dad if they are to survive.
If you need training, it can be provided. If you need help to cover the cost of milk replacer, it may be provided.
First step is to join Wildcare. Google Wildcare Queanbeyan, go to Get involved, go to Membership plans. Costs $45 per year.

Wildcare

25/07/2025

The ACT Government has begun their fertility control, Gonacon, on the kangaroos of Red Hill.

Over the last 4 years over 1000 kangaroos have been slaughtered here and now the remaining kangaroos will face slow extermination instead.

While Gonacon isn’t fatal, with so few remaining kangaroos left on Red Hill they will seriously struggle to increase their numbers at all back to healthy sized mobs like they used to be before killing and fertility control began.

Not to mention the psychological effects on both the males and females of them not being able to produce any joeys. We can only imagine the confusion and frustration of them all. Human contraception comes with so many side effects as it is, who knows how Gonacon makes the kangaroos feel.

Of course as well their delicate and sensitive ears must now have large plastic tags pinned into them that they will forever be shaking their ears for.

Why can’t we just leave our wildlife alone?

📸 Gwenda Griffiths

25/07/2025

Sometimes humour (mixed with pathos) says it best. Here is this weeks' cartoon from the Shush Capital in City News. ❤💔🦘Canberra CityNews

22/07/2025

A miserable rainy night in the capital and the death trucks are on site again, this time at Mt Majura where kangaroos and their joeys have been killed year after year. People who contact us and say they walk regularly in this reserve and its neighbour, Mt Ainslie, say they never see kangaroos now.
Only two years ago, walking in these reserves was a pleasurable experience. Not anymore. There's been too much death.
A 90 year old resident of Mt Ainslie contacted us after the killing began there...devastated...the kangaroos and their joeys had given her so much joy.
But what does our government care about causing such misery...to people and kangaroos?
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📼A kangaroo supporter