Kangaroo management is a complicated, nationwide issue that involves many diverse stakeholders. From landholders to the kangaroo industry to animal welfare groups and everyone else in between, it impacts people across Australia. In this first episode, we’ll talk to an ecologist and an academic to better understand the complex issues surrounding kangaroo management, including diverse approaches such as translocation, fertility control, culling and commercial harvesting.  Want to learn about options on how to help improve the management of kangaroos and the environment in your neck of the woods? Tune in and hear from a researcher who’s looking for solutions by developing a tool for land managers to forecast kangaroo numbers.

Guests featured in this episode include:

• Dr John Read - Ecologist and author - johnlread.com


• Dr. Steve McLeod - Manager Vertebrate Pest Research, NSW Department of Primary Industries


• Dr Graham Coulson -  Kangaroo Ecologist

Other useful resources

• Special Issue of Ecological Management & Restoration: Optimum management of overabundant macropods - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14428903/2021/22/S1

• Kangaroo management in NSW - https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/Topics/Animals-and-plants/Wildlife-management/Kangaroo-management

• Kangaroo Management Taskforce website - kangaroomanagementtaskforce.com.au

• Kangaroo Management Taskforce Facebook page - www.facebook.com/kangarootaskforce

• Short film about the Future Drought Fund research project - https://youtu.be/6f6rBUTiTxE

The Pastoral Poddy is brought to you by Western Local Land Services and the Kangaroo Series is supported through funding from the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund.