This week a group of fifty animal rights organisations met with environment minister Peter Garret to lobby against the current kangaroo management program.

Around 3.5 million kangaroos are culled every year for the commercial meat industry.

The World League for the Protection of animals says that the killing of female kangaroos results in a terrible cruelty inflicted on millions of joeys

Authorities and farmers have argued that growing kangaroo populations are threatening farming land and livestock, but the group says that the population of kangaroos has been vastly overestimated

It warns that unless the kangaroo is given official protection, it could become the new Tasmanian devil.

2ser’s Katrina Yu spoke to Halina Thompson from the World League for the Protection of Animals.