Hundreds of kangaroos face cull in Australia: report

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SYDNEY (AFP) — More than 400 kangaroos living on Australian defence department land face being culled after a plan to relocate them was blocked, a report said Tuesday.

The state government of the Australian Capital Territory has refused to grant export licences to move the eastern grey kangaroos to neighbouring New South Wales, The Canberra Times said.

As a result, the department of defence had abandoned plans to move them from the former naval station in Belconnen in Canberra, leaving a cull as the only alternative, the paper said.

There was an international outcry in 2004 when about 900 kangaroos were destroyed at the site of a dam supplying water to Canberra, and a new cull would spark "significant national protest action", said Wildlife Protection...