"Private contractors have been shooting the camels from helicopters, with the carcasses left to rot in the desert. ”Eradication” of camels is ” not the goal, and it could never be achieved in any case,” the Australian government’s AFCMP website claims. Its purpose (couched in proper bureaucratese) is to “reduce the density of feral camels to a level where their negative impacts are within acceptable limits.”"
In Western Australia in the last ten years about 160,000 camels have been slaughtered.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.A great example of commensalism with camels is the Australian Magpie:
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