Australia considers killing 1,2 million camels in fight against climate change

                           These animals are on the Australian death list

Australia considers killing some 1,2 million camels in order to fight global warming!
This is not a bad joke:

 Australia is considering awarding carbon credits for killing feral camels as a way to tackle climate
change.
The suggestion is included in Canberra's "Carbon Farming Initiative", a consultation paper by the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, seen Thursday.
Adelaide-based Northwest Carbon, a commercial company, proposed culling some 1.2 million wild camels that roam the Outback, the legacy of herds introduced to help early settlers in the 19th century.
Considered a pest due to the damage they do to vegetation, a camel produces, on average, a methane equivalent to one tonne of carbon dioxide a year, making them collectively one of Australia's major emitters of greenhouse gases.
In its plan, Northwest said it would shoot them from helicopters or muster them and send them to an abattoir for either human or pet consumption.
"We're a nation of innovators and we find innovative solutions to our challenges -- this is just a classic example," Northwest Carbon managing director Tim Moore told Australian Associated Press.

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PS
It will be interesting to see, what the alarmist WWF -  an organization that used to care about animals - has to say about this new Australian "innovation". One wonder , which animals are next to be on the "innovative"  Australian global warming death list? .