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Join the campaign for Kangaroos

CAMPAIGN FOR KANGAROOS

Practice kangaroo activism at home, at work and in your community.

Making a difference for the iconic kangaroo can be as easy as posting messages on social media and blogs and standing up for kangaroos in conversations with family, friends and work colleagues.

Use your talents to bring positive changes for kangaroos in Australia.

TOP 20 THINGS YOU CAN DO NOW

  1. Host a film screening of 'Kangaroo A Love-Hate Story' in your community or online

  2. Follow Kangaroos Alive, World Kangaroo Day Oct 24 and Kangaroo the Movie on all platforms

  3. Post and distribute kangaroo flyers and fact sheets around your town.

  4. Organize a demonstration to celebrate kangaroos- holding posters and passing out flyers.

  5. Encourage your local radio show to have a kangaroo show to discuss positive kangaroo stories in your community

  6. Record a pro kangaroo message on your voice mail or across your social media

  7. Ask your child's school to teach wildlife rescue, driving slowly for kangaroos and what to do if you find a kangaroo that has been hit by a car

  8. Host a dinner to talk about kangaroo treatment in your local area

  9. Have a cake sale to support a local wildlife rescuer or volunteer your time

  10. Paint or organise a kangaroo mural at your local school or community centre

  11. Put up Slow Down for Kangaroo or No Shooting signs in your area

  12. Get to know kangaroos better and organise a ‘kangaroo watch’ with your community

  13. Talk to friends and family about kangaroo treatment and encourage friends and family to stop buying kangaroo products

  14. Tell friends and family that kangaroo body parts are used in pet food and how bad it is for both pets and kangaroos

  15. Write to any media to complain about kangaroo bias reporting and write letters to the editor on kangaroo issues.

  16. Write and call all layers of government to ask them to support positive kangaroo legislation

  17. Donate to organizations that legitimately help kangaroos and propose any office fundraisers help kangaroos

  18. Take vegan dishes to parties.

  19. Donate Kangaroo A Love-Hate Story to your local library.

  20. Attend town meetings to urge officials to support long-lasting, nonlethal solutions to conflicts with kangaroos.

Join the campaign in EUROPE

Campaign To Ban Kangaroo Imports Into Europe

Over 100 Members of the European parliament (MEP’s) have launched a campaign to ban the imports of kangaroo meat and skins into the EU. The MEP’s learnt about the barbaric treatment of kangaroos at a screening of the award winning film KANGAROO A Love Hate story held in the EU parliament. Since the film screenings Kangaroos Alive have been working with the Eurogroup for Animals to been bring the attention of the kangaroo slaughter to the people of Europe, the largest importer of kangaroo body parts.

The Eurogroup for Animals has an ongoing campaign to ban kangaroo products coming into Europe “Ban KANGAROO products to EU“.

Download the Eurogroup Report “Kangaroos: From Australian Icon to meat and luxury leather

 
 

Recent Campaign Victories in Europe

The following brands have stopped using kangaroo products:

  • In Italy – GUCCI, PRADA, VERSACE, DIADORA, SALVADORE,

  • In France – CARREFOUR SUPERMARKETS

  • In Belgium – CARREFOUR, MAKRO, CORA, MATCH and SPAR supermarkets

  • In Germany – LIDL, V-MARKT, KAUFLAND, BEWITAL, KOLLE ZOO

Join the campaign in America

Priscilla Presley’s Message to stop the slaughter of our kangaroos….

Center for Humane Economy

We are working to stop the commercial killing in Australia of more than two million wild kangaroos annually — mainly to manufacture soccer cleats.

Please Sign the Petitions

Tell Nike CEO John Donahoe to stop profiting from the largest slaughter of land-based wildlife!


Ask CHEWY.COM to stop selling pet food made from kangaroo meat

Please stop buying kangaroo products

There are fewer kangaroos than there ever have been and the government’s own survey data shows decline. Government survey data and commercial shooting statistics illustrate declining populations and landscapes now significantly depleted of kangaroos. Analysis shows critically flawed kangaroo survey methodologies systematically inflate population estimates from which commercial shooting quotas are then over-allocated.

  • Kangaroos grow and breed slowly and have high juvenile mortality. For example, a Grey Kangaroo doe can produce up to eight independent joeys in her lifetime, [1,2] with just two likely to survive to independence. [3]

  • Maximum wild population growth rates average ~10% in optimal conditions,[4] with annual declines of up to 60% during drought recorded.[5,6,7] It is biologically impossible for kangaroo populations to increase rapidly.

  • Shooting quotas of 15 to 20% or more [8] of population estimates exceed actual kangaroo population growth rates.

Companies that profit from selling kangaroo body parts include:

  • International Brands: Adidas, Nike

  • Australia: Woolworths, Coles

  • EU: Lydl Germa

Help the Kangaroos in the Fires

Sadly more than 12.35 million acres and much of that is kangaroo habitat.

Approximately 1.2 billion animals have been killed and unknown numbers injured and left for dead.

The images from the fires and wildlife are apocalyptic but thankfully through the work of Greg and rescue teams across Australia some of these victims can get the urgent treatment they need.

Host a Screening of KANGAROO: A Love Hate Story

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