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The world’s largest feral camel herd is posing a major threat to rare and endangered Australian wildlife.Destruction of desert waterholes and soaks by a feral camel population estimated at more than onemillion over an area of 3.3 million square kilometres is a real and present danger to unique Australianmarsupials, reptiles, birds and other native animals in desert areas, the Managing Director of the DesertKnowledge CRC, Jan Ferguson, said today.

Robust modelling estimates that the impacts from CRC-REP’s research will be transformative. Within fifteen years, these impacts will include: