Australia Considers Killing Camels to Tackle Climate Change

[MDresden]

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/...limate-change/

Kill a camel to stop pollution? That's what Australia is considering.
The Land Down Under is considering killing feral camels to help tackle climate change, according to a report by news service AFP.
The suggestion came in a paper from the country's Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. A camel produces methane equivalent to one ton of of carbon dioxide a year, making the animal one of the country's biggest greenhouse gasses emitters, it noted.

[Master Khan]

that is just stupid, you can't kill a living thing like that

[Nick]

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/...limate-change/

Kill a camel to stop pollution? That's what Australia is considering.
The Land Down Under is considering killing feral camels to help tackle climate change, according to a report by news service AFP.
The suggestion came in a paper from the country's Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. A camel produces methane equivalent to one ton of of carbon dioxide a year, making the animal one of the country's biggest greenhouse gasses emitters, it noted.

Well those afghan businessman of 1800 did something bad now. I would say brink them bacg to Afghanistan. Australia took all of our Camels, that's why never had railways, and now we need them to make our rail ways.
So kindly return our camels back after all these Camel are afghan by Root anyways what are they doing in Australia?

[MDresden]

(That's why I put it in political only Afghans would see Camels as a political tool.)

[faye]

Well those afghan businessman of 1800 did something bad now. I would say brink them bacg to Afghanistan. Australia took all of our Camels, that's why never had railways, and now we need them to make our rail ways.
So kindly return our camels back after all these Camel are afghan by Root anyways what are they doing in Australia?

you claim that australia took all your camels and then you ask 'what are they doing there?' breeding, that is what they are doing. come and get them. we have too many and used to sell them to the arabs.
i have never seen information that claims australia took all afghanistans camels. is it true?

[khushal]

you claim that australia took all your camels and then you ask 'what are they doing there?' breeding, that is what they are doing. come and get them. we have too many and used to sell them to the arabs.
i have never seen information that claims australia took all afghanistans camels. is it true?

Yes and they stole all the criminals from the British.

[faye]

yes, my ancestors, lol.

[khushal]

yes, my ancestors, lol.

No your ancestors were wrongfully convicted.

[afghan]

nature cannot harm nature, camles belong in wild. there must be thousand other animals to be destroyed as well if this is the case.

[khushal]

Then they need to get rid of termites since termites are the biggest producer of methane gas in the animal kingdom

[Nick]

i have never seen information that claims australia took all afghanistans camels. is it true?

LOL I was joking they didn't took it by force. It was Kandahari Camel Businessman who went their but like Slaves or servents but rather their heads high they get paid for their work. All of the Camels that left Afghanistan from 1860 up to 1890 were going towards South Africa, and mostly Australia they were never returned because it was own by individual Kandahari breeders. Well I am mentioning only Kandahari because majority of them were from Kandahar, needless to say but also from other cities such Laskar Gah, Ghazni and Balkh, Kabul and many others.

Australia never had Camels, today there are over 1 million Camels in Australia mostly feral camel population (not Afghan but Arabian) which is doubling every nine years but still reasonable number of Afghan Camels amongst them some 50,000 I would say. From 1840-1900 over 15000 Camels were imported and 12000 were from Afghanistan. However from 1890-1930 more Arabian camels were imported because it was less expensise from around the world such as Turkish empire, British empire (Pakistan/India) as well as Middle East. But interestingly the Camels that did the job and were in demand were the wild Camels of Afghanistan. A Special name is given to them known as "Pakhtrian Camels" spelled in Latin As "Bactrain Camel".

[faye]

No your ancestors were wrongfully convicted.

not necessarily. at least one of mine, i know of, was guilty, but they were brought to australia by the brits, whether they wanted to come here or not.

[faye]

nature cannot harm nature, camles belong in wild. there must be thousand other animals to be destroyed as well if this is the case.

yes they can, especially if they are not native. the hoofed animals do a lot of damage to the land here. none of the native animals are hoofed. but humans do a lot worse.
nick, it would be good though if afghanistan could take some camels as i think they are or have, culled them. they are invading aboriginal communities and becoming a nuisance.

hahaha, just read the article. 'nation of innovators', shooting from helicoptors or sending them off to abbotoirs, very creative. lol.
this rubbish about the greenhouse gases/farts, is a farce. there would have been so many more beasties on the planet before the colonisers killed them, for example in africa and buffaloes in america.

[randolph85]

wouldn't killing people make a better environmental impact? maybe the developed world should look into offing themselves if they really want to go green.

[faye]

now that is what i call innovation randolph. should we do it like your brothers in the arab spring are doing it? lol