Are kangaroos endangered species?
Many people outside Australia (and some in Australia, who ought to know better) don’t realise that there are many different species of kangaroos, which live in a great variety of habitats. Some roo species (including the really big ones) have had a population explosion since the time when white people cleared so much land to use for grazing cattle and sheep, because those roos like open grassland. They’ve become pest species because there are so many of them, and they compete with sheep and cattle for the grass — and they are definitely not endangered. Other roo species live in habitats which white people have been destroying, and some of those species (though not all) are endangered. Roo meat for pet food and human consumption comes from the overpopulated species (at least it does if it’s legal). Some States allow roo meat to be sold legally for human consumption, but others don’t. The last I heard (a couple of years ago), NSW didn’t allow sales to the general public, though you can
