Camel Meat, Milk, Hides,and Hair are valuable products. Why the rush to wanton slaughter? The decomposing beasts will release a hell of a lot more noxious gases than the live ones do.
Why not just geld a few million of'em, and harvest all the young for a while. (Can be done chemically with hypodermic darts almost as easily as shooting the buggers.) And what about their feral goats? Their feral cats? The Rabbits? Stand-by for another Left Wing Ozzie wank!
I read the story at another source and it said they plan to use the dead camels for ‘human and pet consumption”, so I suppose they will not waste these animals for nothing. It seems to me that they could capture them and export them to places like the middle east that can use them..........................
Understand these camels are in very isolated areas. Quite literally, you could be nearly a thousand miles from any town with more than a thousand people in the middle of a dry, hot desert.
Unless you can shoot the camel, and get it into refrigerated storage within a short period of time, you’re not going to get a carcass that is much use for food purposes. And even if you do manage that, the transport costs involved in getting it to a place where it can be processed, and then the further transport costs, in getting it to the places where there are people to eat it. . . basically a large scale camel meat industry in Australia simply doesn’t make economic sense.
Those camels that are in more accessible areas are used commercially - but huge numbers - at least a million - are simply too far away to make that practical.