Shoot to kill operations of cattle are under way in Cape York. Cattle have wandered into national parks and the rangers who own surrounding land are not usually given any warning or time to round up the cattle. KAP member for Hill Shane Knuth has said “The department needs to communicate with landowners, who are rarely notified and often held up by government bureaucracy, sometimes waiting up to 50 days before they can obtain a permit to collect their branded cattle from national parks.”
“Cattle are continually shot before landowners are given permission to enter parks to muster their cattle, which is a huge economic loss to the region.” “It is quite obvious that this Government wants to drive pastoralists out of the region, so they can lock it up to meet their environmental agenda.” And that is spot on comment since the environmentalists have a general hatred of farmers, even though these urbanites still like to eat food.