Stop Australia’s Wildlife Culls: Ban 1080 and Protect Sentient Animals

Across Australia, thousands of animals – including kangaroos, wombats, dingoes, brumbies, emus, birds, reptiles, crocodiles, and sharks – are directly killed through government‑approved culls, baiting programs, trapping, shooting, and lethal drumlines. 

Other species, such as rays, dolphins, turtles, and some birds and marine animals, are not culled but are still killed as predictable by‑products of state‑sanctioned systems like shark nets, drumlines, commercial fishing bycatch, habitat destruction, and “problem animal” removals. Although these actions are often justified as necessary for “public safety” or “agricultural protection,” independent ecological research consistently shows that lethal control is ineffective, unethical, and ecologically damaging.

At the same time, 1080 poison, a toxin banned in most countries, continues to be used across our landscapes and waterways, killing native species, introduced species, and companion animals indiscriminately.

Australia’s wildlife deserves non‑lethal, science‑based coexistence – not bullets, traps, nets, or poison.