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Or give the poor things to some poor family in Afghanistan, perhaps?

FOXnews - Australia Announces Camel Hunt

SYDNEY, Australia — Thousands of wild camels in Australia’s Outback will be shot from helicopters as part of an attempt to control the animals’ burgeoning numbers, a state official and local media said Tuesday.

That’s a bit harsh, isn’t it? Couldn’t they just neuter them like stray cats?

Camels were first introduced into Australia in the mid-1880s to transport supplies across the desert, but were released into the wild after trains and trucks replaced them.

With no natural predators and ample grazing land, Australia’s wild camel population has exploded in parts of central, northern and western Australia. Some scientists have estimated there are as many as 500,000 camels roaming the country’s vast deserts.

I know! Pen them in on an aircraft carrier! The navy wants to get rid of one and congress doesn’t! So put a skeleton crew on it and plant some grass, stack some hay, and put a couple thousand camels on the flight deck! Compromise!

Update:

A BBC article from June, 2002:

BBC - Australia supplies Saudis with camels

Australia has begun exporting camels to Saudi Arabia.

More than 100 animals are being shipped from the Australian port city of Darwin and are due to arrive in Saudi Arabia in early July.

No no no. You have to do more than a hundred at a time if it’s going to take a month to cross the word’s third littlest ocean!