Camels in the Outback | Al Jazeera World
Camels were brought to Australia from Pakistan and India by the British to help with exploration and load-carrying in the mid-1800s.
Given the Australian outback's vast, arid landscape, camels were the only animals strong enough for the job.
But by the early 1900s, there were trucks and trains to do this work, and camels were no longer useful. So the South Australian government ruled that they be destroyed.
This was unthinkable for the Asian camel herders. They disobeyed the order, and set the animals loose in the outback.
Today's Australian camels are the great, great grandchildren of the animals that helped explore and establish modern Australia. There are 1.2 million camels in the Australian outback – the largest wild camel population in the world.
The Australian government sees them as an environmental problem and pests to farmers. They say the camels compete with livestock, destroy property and raid small towns looking for water.
Culling camels
In 2009, the government put up AUD$19m ($19.7m) to cull almost one-third of them.
Over the last few years, private contractors and hunters have been shooting the camels from helicopters and leaving the carcasses to rot in the desert.
Some Australians oppose the cull, saying the government is wasting an opportunity to make use of a natural resource.
Qataris and other Arabs are horrified at the YouTube videos and photographs of the camel cull. For the Arabs, camels occupy an important place in culture, history and economics.
Al Jazeera World goes to Australia with Ali Sultan Al Hajri, a Qatari who grew up in the desert, illiterate and raising camels until he was 17.
Director: Yasir Khan
Director of Photography: Fadi Benni
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Given the Australian outback's vast, arid landscape, camels were the only animals strong enough for the job.
But by the early 1900s, there were trucks and trains to do this work, and camels were no longer useful. So the South Australian government ruled that they be destroyed.
This was unthinkable for the Asian camel herders. They disobeyed the order, and set the animals loose in the outback.
Today's Australian camels are the great, great grandchildren of the animals that helped explore and establish modern Australia. There are 1.2 million camels in the Australian outback – the largest wild camel population in the world.
The Australian government sees them as an environmental problem and pests to farmers. They say the camels compete with livestock, destroy property and raid small towns looking for water.
Culling camels
In 2009, the government put up AUD$19m ($19.7m) to cull almost one-third of them.
Over the last few years, private contractors and hunters have been shooting the camels from helicopters and leaving the carcasses to rot in the desert.
Some Australians oppose the cull, saying the government is wasting an opportunity to make use of a natural resource.
Qataris and other Arabs are horrified at the YouTube videos and photographs of the camel cull. For the Arabs, camels occupy an important place in culture, history and economics.
Al Jazeera World goes to Australia with Ali Sultan Al Hajri, a Qatari who grew up in the desert, illiterate and raising camels until he was 17.
Director: Yasir Khan
Director of Photography: Fadi Benni
Social Media links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera
Instagram: https://instagram.com/aljazeera/?ref=...
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajenglish
Website: http://www.aljazeera.com/
google+: https://plus.google.com/+aljazeera/posts
#AlJazeeraEnglish #Camels #AJDocs
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