Despite the panel delivering its final report in December 2021, the Victorian Labor Government had not responded to the report until it published its response, Victorian Government response to the Wildlife Act Review, on 17 October 2025.

Australia’s National Climate Risk Assessment makes it clear, biodiversity and ecosystem health across Australia face severe risks under projected climate scenarios.

The Red Kangaroo, Wallaroo and Eastern Grey Kangaroo are still being killed in very large numbers for commercial gain and what is described as damage mitigation.

The actual commercial take of Kangaroos in South Australia for the first 6 months of 2025 is running slightly higher than originally forecast by the Nature Knowledge Channel but has only reached 8.5 per cent of the full year quota.

The significant over egging of Kangaroo populations in Queensland continues unabated.

In the language of the time, we go back to 1984, then we visit the US to find nothing has changed. We discover films matter.

The commercial quota for Kangaroos in Victoria for Q2 – 2025 was 29,050. The actual take for the period was 13,886, that is just 48 per cent of the quota for the period.

16 reserves were closed and 2,978 Kangaroos were killed. Ratio of females to males killed in 2025 is significantly higher than in previous years. In total 32,413 Kangaroos, including joeys, have been killed in the ACT's 'nature' parks since 2015.

Mike Fuery describes the ways in which the public are misled and their concerns ignored by a government that should know better.

What is not reported by this public broadcaster when it comes to Kangaroos and other Australian wildlife is just as bad as the misinformation / disinformation it spins.

State based Kangaroo population estimates are calculated from surveys where small numbers of Kangaroos are counted and then these counts (mostly from fixed wing aircraft or helicopters) are extrapolated across likely habitat landscapes.

Many of the stories we write for the Nature Knowledge Channel are about the consequence of disconnection. In contrast, and in this story, we meet the most connected of all.

The commercial quota for Kangaroos in Victoria for Q1 – 2025 was 37,950. The actual take for the period was 18,311, that is just 48 per cent of the quota for the period.

U.S. Senators join Umbro in saying “no” to the trade in Kangaroo parts, aligning with Nike, New Balance, Puma, adidas, and other athletic shoe retailers on their sourcing practices.

Following South Australia’s lead, to subsidise yet more Kangaroo killing, Victoria is now doing something similar.

As per our forecast, the actual take was just 17 per cent of the South Australian commercial Kangaroo quota.

Baffling as it may seem the ACT Greens have been a central force in the eradication of Kangaroos in the Canberra / ACT park system. This year's kill is more than double the 2024 target and nearly triple the 2023 target.

Here is the Nature Knowledge Channel’s assessment of yet another disgraceful episode in the endangerment of Koalas in Victoria.

Sometimes it can be enlightening to look back. This is what we were saying in 2021.

Years of effort from the Kangaroos are not shoes team scores again.

This analysis is a rebuild of annual Kangaroo population estimates, commercial quotas and actual take from 1980, including the population estimate data removed from the public gaze.

Since 2009, the Victorian Government has issued 2,232 permits to kill 39,783 Bare-nosed Wombats. A group of Wombats is known as a Wisdom of Wombats.

Here is another look at what went on in Victoria in 2024.

Unglaublich: Das kann nicht sein? Ja, natürlich kann es. Unmöglich! German aside, here is a snapshot of what Victoria is doing to its wildlife.

Confirmation that 600-700 Koalas in Victoria, perhaps more, are being shot from helicopters and by the state’s environment department is no longer a surprise. In the final analysis, including joeys, we think total kill will be 1,300.

What happened, the New South Wales Government Inquiry into the Health and wellbeing of Kangaroos and other Macropods in New South Wales?

With yet more State Government inquiries in relation to biodiversity and environment we revisit our comments from 2021 regarding the Parliamentary Inquiry into ecosystem decline in Victoria.

A night spent at the opal town, Coober Pedy, in the desert country of South Australia, reveals something unexpected.

This analysis details the number of ATCWs issued in Victoria in 2024 by species and number of animals targeted. It shows a significant increase in the number of protected wildlife being killed using this permit.

This analysis summarises the 2024 population estimates for Kangaroos on the Australian mainland and the resulting commercial quotas in 2025.

Population estimates and commercial quotas for the exploitation of Kangaroos in Western Australian were available in early April 2025. The population estimates for both the Western Grey and Red Kangaroo show decline hence quotas have also declined.

Following the terrible fires, we revisit the status of the ‘Kangaroo’ family, Macropodidae, in Victoria.

The Natural Resources Committee is calling for submissions to its inquiry into Kangaroo and Wallaby populations in South Australia.

Evacuated and glad to be returning home to Wongaburra, Christine Corbidge talks about her life with her horses and the wildlife she loves.

What is really going on in Possum populations in Australia. Time to start worrying?

In this short film Jane Gibb describes the enormous impact that commercial Kangaroo shooters have had on the Griffins Hill Iyengar Yoga Retreat.

We visit the home of Australian explorers, Suzan and Jon Muir. Suzan Muir describes the terrible impact of fire on the property and its wildlife that Suzan and Jon love so much.

On 16 February 2025, following the devastating Gariwerd Park fires, the commercial Kangaroo shooters returned to Dunkeld.

The catastrophic fires in the west of Victoria continue to burn. It is time to change the way in which Australian wildlife is treated.

The catastrophic fires in the west of Victoria continue to burn. The wildlife needs food and water as everything is gone.

The catastrophic fires in the west of Victoria continue to burn. The suffering of wildlife continues day after day after day.

The catastrophic fires in the west of Victoria continue to burn. Most of the animals killed by the fire or from their injuries so far are Kangaroos.

The catastrophic fires in the west of Victoria continue to burn as the commercial exploitation of Kangaroos continues.

A glimpse at the consequences of a nuclear world and of war as the Doomsday Clock moves ever closer to midnight.

Given the up and coming Kangaroo Inquiry in South Australia this analysis will be useful to submitters trying to understand what is occurring.

As fires in Victoria rage, how many native animals are being rescued from public lands? This is the timeline of the Grampians Gariwerd fires.

Population estimates (2024) and quotas (2025) for the Eastern and Western Grey Kangaroos were published on 22 December 2024.

In 2024, the New South Wales Government claim an increase in Kangaroo populations that is impossible. This population estimate sets the quota for 2025.

Oxford, the home of Lewis Carroll’s stories about his wonderland, MATHS and science, have been part of our lives since we were very young and so long ago.

This analysis reports the actual number of Grey Kangaroos killed for commercial gain in in Victoria in the first nine months of 2024.

As we get closer to the implementation of changes (from January 2025) regarding the commercial exploitation of Kangaroos in Victoria, there are questions to answer.

The biggest back track since 1595? Labor, environment and biodiversity in Victoria and Australia. Australia’s environment laws remain broken.

In February 2024 I found myself in the footsteps of Dr Jim Cairns (former deputy PM) in precisely the same venue, the Melbourne Town Hall, and talking about precisely the same topic, Kangaroos.

This analysis gives Kangaroo population estimates (from 2002) and quotas and actual take since 1980 for the Australian mainland.

A rebuttal of international concerns regarding treatment of Kangaroos from the New South Wales Legislative Council.

The story of one little Kangaroo and her short life.

This analysis describes actual take in New South Wales to 30 September 2024 (including returns due on 10 October 2024).

Italian MPs and leading companies stand up against the commercial slaughter of Kangaroos.

The NGO International Film Festival is held in Melbourne some 50 years after Andrea and I first came to the city.

Kangaroo silly season is coming as population estimates and quotas are announced. The Kangaroo facts for Victoria are these..

Unprotection of Australian wildlife is sinister, despite Victorian Government claims, because there are no controls over what happens.

Ellen Sandell MP, the eminent state member for Melbourne, attempts to shed a light on the Kangaroo situation in Victoria.

The Senators’ Kangaroo Protection Act would ban the sale and manufacturing of products made from Kangaroo skin, as well as the sale of Kangaroo skin itself.

Given South Australia’s Kangaroo Inquiry, the opportunity arises for a thorough review of the Draft Commercial Kangaroo Management Plan.

As per usual, Queensland is the first to publish it latest Kangaroo population estimates and commercial quotas. Here they are.

Thursday 12 September 2024, the South Australian Government approves Kangaroo Inquiry.

An intimate portrait of mothers and joeys from Andrea Hylands.

Why are, what the world perceives to be iconic species, treated with such distain in Australia? The answer lies in the decades of propaganda and a colonial past.

The Nature Knowledge Channel holds the data for the commercial exploitation of Kangaroos in South Australia back to the early 1970s.

This story gives an analysis of the commercially exploited Kangaroo species for 2024 based on data entered to 6 August 2024.

This analysis reports the actual number of Grey Kangaroos killed in Victoria for commercial gain in the first six months of 2024.

A new round of Kangaroo nonsense is being spruiked by journalists and Victorian Government politicians. We look at the reality.

Warning, this story contains images of extreme suffering.

Statewide surveys have been conducted in 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2022. The next survey will be in the latter months of 2024.

In 2023 the actual number of Kangaroos killed for commercial gain was 1,362,185, our forecast for 2024 is 1,224,700.

This analysis gives the 2023 actuals against quota for Victoria (data published on 29 July 2024) and ATCW data including killing on public land.

Professor Steve Garlick (NSW) makes the point that someone always has to clean up the mess resulting from government wildlife polices, the someone is a wildlife carer.

The changes to the proposed new South Australia Commercial Kangaroo Management Plan are not only predictable, but they will also be devastating for remnant Kangaroo populations in the state.

Years of reporting on wildlife massacres in Australia does not make this grim task easier. This recent massacre of one hundred Kangaroos in Victoria was particularly vile.

The plan: Seven nature reserves across the ACT will be closed from 9 June until 1 August 2024 for the ACT’s annual Kangaroo Management Program.

Professor Steve Garlick, Possumwood Wildlife, compares the Queanbeyan Nature Reserve (NSW) and the adjoining Jerrabomberra East Grasslands Nature Reserve (ACT).

“People don't do such things!” Henrik Ibsen. Well in Canberra, it appears they do.

When it comes to the environment and biodiversity, in Victoria we end up with a very long list of red flags, here are just 5. No high fives about it.

When it comes to what we see in Australia regarding the treatment of Kangaroos, we can only describe it as deeply degrading of a civil society and the kinder and clever world so many of us want to create.

An alarming increase in native wildlife killing in 2023. During 2023, 2,482 ATCW permits were issued to lethally control 119,367 native Australian animals in Victoria (Australian mammals and birds).

This story provides brief insights into the confronting world that describes the relationship in Australia with Kangaroos. We take you back to the early part of the 1970s.

The commercial exploitation of Kangaroos in Victoria has nothing to do with mitigation of harm, but everything to do with commercial gain.

So what happened to the Victorian Government’s 2023 consultation regarding the commercial exploitation of Kangaroos in the state?

This analysis follows up our story Pandora’s Box: Koalas in Victoria, and the news is grim as well as predictable.

This analysis summarises how many Koalas were rehabilitated and how many were euthanised by Zoos Victoria since 2018.

This analysis updates the 2022 numbers, estimates the outcome for 2023 and provides comparisons for 2020 to 2024.

This analysis of the situation for Kangaroos in Western Australian in 2024 completes the analysis of all states and mainland territories in Australia for that year.

This analysis summarises the population and quota data for 2024 for the states which commercially exploit Kangaroos.

“All Kangaroo species in South Australia are protected under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972”. Well, perhaps not.

Talking to Shai Ager from The Agile Project during the flooding, Shai describes how this catastrophe for wildlife in Far North Queensland unfolded.

We can be certain of one thing, commercial shooters will not reach the quotas in 2024, because the population estimates, yet again, appear hyper-inflated. This leads to quotas that are far too high.

The population estimate of the four commercial species in 2023, from which the 2024 quota is derived, was 9,634,900 (down from 11,882,215 in the previous year).

To all our Nature Knowledge Channel’s friends around the world we wish you the very best for 2024. You can be certain of one thing, we will be out there fighting to protect and save the world’s precious biodiversity.

The Nature Knowledge Channel was blocked from attending the opening media event of the Koala Hospital in August 2022.

Public lands are next in the endless exploitation of Kangaroos in Victoria.