Shooters will take to the skies in helicopters this week to hunt down and kill thousands of feral camels tormenting remote communities.
The major operation will begin on Wednesday in a bid to control the huge populations of the animals that have overrun the state’s remote northwest region.
“We have been stuck in stinking hot and uncomfortable conditions, feeling unwell, because the camels are coming in and knocking down fences, getting in around the houses and trying to get to water through airconditioners,’’ Marita Baker, board member of the APY executive, toldHer community of Kanypi is one of many to be invaded by feral camels recently as the parched pests search out scarce water.There are more than one million feral camels in Australia, experts predict.
The nomadic desert beasts are thought to be migrating away from dry conditions in the Nullarbor and Goldfields in a desperate attempt to find food and water.
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