Commercial exploitation of Kangaroos in New South Wales: Actual take 2025 to end September
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"What is extraordinary and demonstrates how absurd the 2024 New South Wales Kangaroo population estimates and subsequent 2025 quotas are, is that the New South Wales quota for 2025 is 870,379 animals more than the actual take in all Australia". Peter Hylands
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In New South Wales, four species of Kangaroo are exploited for commercial gain, these are the Red Kangaroo, the Eastern Grey Kangaroo, the Western Grey Kangaroo and the Wallaroo.
For each species the commercial quota for 2025 is:
- Red Kangaroo – 852,938;
- Western Grey Kangaroo – 153,264;
- Eastern Grey Kangaroo – 1,125,908; and
- Wallaroo – 54,842
What is extraordinary and demonstrates how absurd the 2024 New South Wales Kangaroo population estimates and subsequent 2025 quotas are, is that the New South Wales quota for 2025 is 870,379 animals more than the actual take in all Australia (mainland 5 states) in 2024.
The latest claims regarding population numbers in New South Wales are a classic example of what occurs.
For 2024, the population estimate for Kangaroos in New South Wales has risen to 13,910,688 (in 2023 was 9,634,900), an increase in the population of Kangaroos in New South Wales over a 12 month period of 4,275,788 when we estimate given a range of conditions, the maximum population increase would have been 600,000.
This increase leading in 2025 to a commercial quota for Kangaroos in New South Wales of 2,186,952 (in 2024 it was1,484,072), an increase of 702,880. For 2025 there is also a special quota of 208,659, up from 144,523 in 2024.
The total quota for the commercial exploitation of Kangaroos in New South Wales in 2024 of 1,484,072 Kangaroos was down from a quota of 1,850,228 in 2023. In 2024 there was also a maximum special quota of 144,523 (down from 178,233 in 2023) which may be made available in specific circumstances.
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).
For all species exploited commercially in New South Wales, that is, the Eastern Grey Kangaroo, Red Kangaroo, Western Grey Kangaroo and Wallaroo, the actual take in the first 9 months of 2024 was 396,666 against a full year quota of 1,484,072. That is 27 per cent of the full year quota. NOTE: By mid-November 2024 the actual, as reported, had risen to 450,418, from 565,229 allocated commercial tags. By year end 2024 the actual take was 544,317.
New South Wales actual commercial take of Kangaroos to end September 2025
- Eastern Grey Kangaroo – 235,922 (21 per cent of full year quota).
- Western Grey Kangaroo – 24,528 (16 per cent of full year quota).
- Red Kangaroo – 197,101 (23 per cent of full year quota).
- Wallaroo – 8,895 (16 per cent of full year quota).
- Total first 9 months – 466,446 (21 per cent of full year quota). This compares to an actual take in the first 9 months of 2024 of 396,666.
- Highest actual take in the first 9 months of 2025 was in the Broken Hill shooting zone at 88,181 Kangaroos (31 per cent of the zone’s quota and 19 per cent of total New South Wales actual take).
- To end September 2025 the numbers of commercial tags issued in New South Wales was 568,600, that is 26 per cent of quota leaving 1,618,352 unallocated.
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