What is unknown history in Australia who is struggling with more than 1 million camels wild.

byCorey Butler

If you listen to a camel, the images that are roaming in the desert areas of the Middle East and North Africa may be strong, but for travel writersBen LeewellHe seems to have met a wild camel unexpectedly while traveling in Australia. Actually Australia and camels have long been connected, but now wild camels are a problem in Australia.

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While traveling inland in Australia by car, Mr. Leewell expected that he met Australia's unique wildlife. Most of the time just seems to have been a journey to drive a vast and nothing plain by car, but occasionally the renowned kangaroo appeared as an animal unique to Australia, the owl eagle was seen flying in the far sky,DingoHe seems to have encountered where he is lying.

Mr. Rewell was traveling, the vast population sparse area centered on the desert spreading in the inland region of Australia "OutbackOne day Lewell saw a wild camel in the plain. At that time, he did not know that the wild camel is in Australia, Mr. Reewell thought he was mistaken for seeing. However, in the evening, when I looked it up using the Internet, Lee Well knew that outback is a place where camels are inhabited massively, unexpectedly. An outpatient surveillance site supported by the Australian governmentFeral ScanAccording to, the number of camels inhabiting Outback is between 1 million and 1.2 million, predicted to double by 8 to 9 years.

Mr. Reewell said, "If there is a camel out on the back, it is strange that the outback highway is a camel and not a queue?" But the biggest question is why camels living in desert areas far from Australia are breeding massively in Outback.

byPhillip Capper

"It is necessary to understand that Outback is a very vast place.It is about plain area that is about 6 million square kilometers in area and about the same area that doubled India's national land as a plain mainly in the desert And the horizon continues on endlessly, "Mr. Leewell says, the fact that Australia's inland area was a very large dry zone is an important element in wild camels breeding in Australia .

In Australia from the second half of the eighteenth century the colonization of Britain advanced, but the vast area of ​​the inland area was too harsh and sometimes the inland exploration was done as a punishment imposed on sinners. People at that time gradually established settlements and established inland transportation networks, but it was a camel that was chosen as a transportation method capable of withstanding long-distance transportation on dry land. Between 1870 and 1920, 20 thousand camels from the Arabian Peninsula, India, Afghanistan, etc. were imported to Australia, and more than 2000 camel rides have migrated.

As camels were able to adapt very well to the outback climate, it became an important means of transport for Australian society for decades and contributed to economic development. Camels carried a wide variety of cotton and water, wood used for utility poles and railway sleepers, tea and tobacco, but as the railroad network and cars developed in the 1930's camels were inefficient transportation law It seems that it has become.

bychiaralily

Many camels that became unnecessary have been released to the wild, but camels have breed within Milum because they had perfectly the necessary elements to survive in the outback climate. Camels themselves are quiet animals, but often it is a problem by destroying water pipes in search of water, or eating up grass in pasture zones. Explainer Simon Lieb says that camel imports were a genius problem solving method in the short term, but in the long run it is a disaster itself, for camel in Australia.

In order to cope with the overwhelming wild camel, the Australian government is putting effort into exterminating wild camels and announced that it has destroyed 160,000 heads only after 2009. On the other hand, many Australians are accepting camels positively, for exampleSummer Land CamelsOn the farm named Farm is breeding as many as 550 camels and producing dairy products using milk of camel which is rich in nutrition.

byFraser Mummery

Mr. Reewell met with only one camel in a journey on the outback, so he is very surprised by the fact that more than 1 million camels inhabit Outback. "In Australia's plain area, which has a very large scale, even if there are 1 million camels, the possibility of visiting is very low," Lewell says.