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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.

Much of Australia’s wealth is created in our remote regions, yet many of the people who live there are excluded from the benefits generated by the remote economy. The impact of this inequity on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population in particular is acknowledged by the Council of Australian Governments.