Feral Camel Pest Control Order Issued to Curb Potentially Wild Population

Does YOUR company offer feral camel control? It would if it was located in western New South Wales. A report in The Ridge News reveals the government there issued a “feral camel pest control order” for the area. Troy Crittle, invasive species officer with the Department of Primary Industries (the government agency that manages the town’s natural resources), told The Ridge News that the local feral camel population is on track to rise 8 to 10 percent ever year. The organization recently partnered with the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service and Western Local Land Services to conduct an aerial cull of feral camels in Bourke and Cobar shires. In an effort to regulate and control the number of camels, New South Wales residents who have them are required to have a license. Property owners and visitors to the area are asked to report sightings of feral camels in an effort to head of a “large wild population” of them.