Australia has ca camel problem

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No, they are not native to this continent but they were imported from Afghanistan, along with Afghan cameleers, to open up the desert regions of central Australia. Once the roads and railways were developed they were no longer needed they were turned loose and ever since they have thrived and multiplied.

Report released as feral camel cull ends







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Photo: Camels stampede across a sand dune (Robert Sleep)

The final report into the Federal Government's $19 million Australian Feral Camel Management Project has been released, suggesting a relatively small investment could keep the pest problem down. Co-ordinated by Government contractor Ninti One, the program culled about 160,000 camels from Central Australia since it began in 2009, using ground-based and aerial culling techniques.

Its main aim was to reduce camel densities to about one camel per 10 square kilometres across 18 key biodiversity sites.
The report reveals the project came in $4 million under budget. The money will be returned to the Federal Government.
The project's partners, which include pastoralists, representatives from the Central Land Council, and Aboriginal land holders have gathered in Canberra to see the report presented to the Federal Government.

Managing director Jan Ferguson says this collaboration with land holders underpins the project's success.
"These were the people who raised what a significant problem these animals were," she said. "People came to this project without a view of self interest. They worked together to get numbers down so that their land is more productive or they're not dealing with biodiversity loss."

The report has identified a need for ongoing feral camel management, at an estimated cost of $4 million per year, but specifies that governments and land managers must continue to work together across state borders.
Jan Ferguson says without ongoing management the population will rebound.

"If we don't stay on the case of these animals, we will get congregations of the like that we saw at Docker River [in 2009]."

Full article here:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-21/feral-camel-culling-report/5105884
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We should be able to make better use of those camels. They're a lot lower maintenance than the cattle and are apparently not bad eating. They are disease free, healthiest camels in the world I've heard so why not? I'm game to try anything and they can't be worse than roo meat. Not much is.
 
Cammell hair garments especially hats are of the highest quality.
How about "Camel jerky",
Now, dont get dirty minded, It is sun dried strips of meat, similar to South African "BILTONG".
 
babyboomer said:
Yes.."Camel s...t,
do you remember Marlboro comercials, with a lot of horses, Marlboro tastes like horse s**t:mad:
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Yes they do and the Marlboro man died of lung cancer a few years back.

i was trying to remember some old defunct brand cigarettes. There was Spuds, Fatima, Pall Mall, Old Gold, Phillip Morris, Chesterfields, and a lot more that I can't recall. I probably, at one time, smoked everyone of these. When I finally quite in 99, I was smoking Marlboro Lights.
 
I collapsed into helpless laughter in a supermarket once when I picked up some pitted dates and the package proclaimed proudly that they were 'Camel Dates'.


(where I grew up a 'date' was a polite term for the fundamental orifice, and the thought of a packet full of Camel ones was more than I could handle)

I can't have been the only one to see the joke though as the next shipment that came in were rebranded 'Oasis Dates'.
 
Too bad they didn't leave behind a buncha Sopwiths. That woulda been cool.

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