Australia urges people to eat kangaroo meat

Australian ecologists are encouraging people to eat kangaroo to protect the ecosystem.

Australia called for less kangaroo carnivores, the country's symbolic animal, to address the growing number of kangaroo in excess of control, Smithsonian reported on September 12.

The number of kangaroo is growing rapidly, from 27 million in 2010 to 45 million in 2016, according to BBC News.

The reason is that heavy rainfall in Australia in the last 10 years made plants thrive. Abundant food leads to a rapid increase in kangaroo . Another cause is that humans cause some of the natural enemies of the kangaroo to become extinct, such as thylacine, a dog-like marsupial.

The number of kangaroo is nearly double that of the Australian population, adversely affecting the country's ecosystem, according to ABC News. Ecological experiments show serious consequences that occur when the number of kangaroo is too much.

The number of kangaroo increased beyond control in Australia.(Photo: Flickr).

Kangaroo can clean up trees, making birds and other animals free of food and shelter. They also eat grass on the ground, causing serious erosion in areas that are trying to protect the soil from desertification.

The government called on people to participate in resolving this situation. Many Australian states have set rules and targets for kangaroo humanitarian slaughter, but there is little need to eat this animal.

Kangaroo is honored as a national symbol of Australia, even appearing on the national emblem. Therefore, only a few travelers are curious to taste the flesh of this animal. With so little demand, hunters rarely hunt kangaroo, the more they cannot kill the meat, according to BBC News.

Letting the number of kangaroo grow so quickly out of control is far less humane than slaughtering, because millions of children may die in the next drought, ecologists said. The major drought in the mid-2000s caused the number of kangaroo to drop to only 7 million.

Scientists also emphasize the benefits of kangaroo compared to beef or other traditional cattle, which are less fat and methane.

This is not the first time Australia has encountered an individual's number of animals beyond control. Another threat of the country is sugarcane toad , a poisonous North American amphibian brought by farmers to eat insects that harm the 1930s sugarcane. They multiply excessively and become a good example. for the dangers of invasive alien species.

Similarly, rabbits also cause negative impacts on the Australian environment. Rabbit was brought to Australia in 1859 as a new form of "hunting pleasure" . However, rabbits have proliferated and destroyed plants and crops in this country. Wild cats, another species brought by Australians, are also considered to be the causes of some of the country's small bird and mammal species extinction.

Kangaroo lives in Australia, not invasive alien species. However, local officials hope people will eat more kangaroo to protect the ecosystem.