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> Camel hunting in the remote central Australian Aboriginal community
> of Kintore.
>
> The desert animal is considered a pest in the region, with up to a
> million camels across the outback.
>
> Kintore chief executive officer Neil Ewart says young men from the
> community who would otherwise be unemployed are now helping make use
> of the camels.
>
> "They cut up the meat and take it around to the old people," he said.
>
> "It's really good, just a little program, not a large-scale thing,
> that just happens maybe once or twice a week.
>
> "They'll go out and they'll get a couple of camels and they'll butcher
> it and take the meat around to the various old people in the
> community, and the community appreciate that."
>
>
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/04/2153725.htm?section=australia
>
> Thousands of camels have been sighted in the Western Desert, 700
> kilometres south-west of Alice Springs.
>
> More than 600,000 feral camels roam the NT, causing environmental
> degradation and plaguing pastoralists who often call for culls.
>
> Up to one million now roam the inland and thats over 100,000 more
> every year , 2000 more every week
>
> But a full-grown male camel is worth $300 at the abattoir.and several
> times that as meat
>
> probably a million dollars of meat every week going to waste , plus
> skins and by products
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>
>
> "It's a great resource," Mr Dann said.
>
> "I don't like seeing them shot and wasted - they're good meat."
>
> Boning, packing and management of animals in the paddocks creates work
> for remote indigenous people.
>
> Mr Dann is already employing remote indigenous people from Central
> Australia, including the southwest of the NT and the Anangu
> Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands to bring camels in to process.
>
> "Where in Alice a mob of 60-70 is a big mob, in the APY lands you get
> mobs of 700 to 1500 or better," he said.
>
> Mr Dann said if he gets tier 1 accreditation, he will move from
> processing about 40 camels per week to 200.
>
> Territory Camel sells camel steaks, mince and sausages through
> consumer outlets in Darwin and also Alice Springs.
>
> Company spokeswoman Sarah Debney said the biggest challengefor the
> company was creating consumer demand.
>
> "Once a person has tried camel meat the yuck factor is dispelled," she
> said.
>
> "Camel meat tastes so similar to beef that even expert cattlemen have
> been tricked over a camel T-bone."
> http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2008/01/30/3217_nt-business.html
Australians should make sure that ANYONE who buys a plane ticket to Medina
makes it a one way trip.
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