Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara
Snipers to cull up to 10,000 camels in drought-stricken Australia
The five-day cull in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands — home to about 2,300 indigenous people in the north-west of South Australia — is the first in the state, local media reported. "These (camel) groups are putting pressure on the remote Aboriginal communities in the APY Lands and the pastoral operations as the camels search for water," the APY Lands executive committee said in a statement.
Helicopter-borne marksmen killed more than 5,000 camels in a 5-day cull of feral herds. Aboriginal leaders in South Australia state said extremely large herds of non-native camels had been driven towards rural communities by drought and extreme heat, threatening scarce food and drinking water, damaging infrastructure, and creating a dangerous hazard for drivers.