Nikki Sutterby [ 29/Oct/12 ]
Post date: Oct 29, 2012 9:57:40 AM
Jerry Guirguis interviews Nikki Sutterby, President of the Australian Society for Kangaroos, live via a phone-hook-up on 96.5FM – Egyptian radio show [ Monday 29th October 2012 ] .
6:30pm – our 1st special guest tonight is ;
Nikki Sutterby
President
Australian Society for Kangaroos
PO Box 524 Castlemaine Vic 3450
www.AustralianSocietyforKangaroos.org
info@AustralianSocietyforKangaroos.org
MISSION : - The Australian Society for Kangaroos endeavours to represent all species of kangaroos and wallabies across Australia and internationally, and protect them from unnecessary suffering, killing, orphaning and extinction.
Hi Nikki, and welcome to 96.5FM – Egyptian radio show......
Kangaroo Industry;
$270 million
4,000 workers
Australia export to 48 countries
National code of practice for the humane shooting of Kangaroos
Q1] What the public should know about the cruelty in the culling method.
Each year about 855,000 dependent joeys are killed as “collateral damage” of the Kangaroo industry.
All Kangaroo meat sold in Victoria is sourced interstate.
Toxins in Kangaroos when they're enclosed /trapped
In 2009, the Russian government banned the importing kangaroo meat [ 76% of Australian Kangaroo meat export ], due to food safety and hygiene violations.
Q2] ACT has authorised the culling of 2,000 Kangaroos across 9 nature reserves
In 2010 Kangaroo Management Plan, has been described as unnecessary by Professor Steve Garlick and Dr.Rosemary Austen.
Jerry Guirguis
Presenter
96.5FM – Egyptian radio show
+61 400 718 817
CD copy of this interview can be requested by email to: [ JerryGuirguis@bigpond.com ]