Draft Commercial Kangaroo Management Plan 2025–2029

We want your feedback on the draft South Australian Commercial Kangaroo Management Plan for 2025–2029.

What's being decided?

You’re invited to share your thoughts on the draft Commercial Kangaroo Management Plan for 2025–2029.

There are 5 changes proposed:

• Prioritise conservation and animal welfare during emergency events, such as bushfires, by adjusting quotas or shutting down commercial harvest sub-regions.
• Introduce a more flexible, risk-based approach to kangaroo surveying so efforts can go into areas with high harvest.
• Where the risk of overharvesting is low based on the risk assessment, harvest quotas will be maintained for 3 years before being reduced to 10% of the population estimate.
• Enable small numbers of eastern grey kangaroos to be harvested in areas in addition to the Lower South East harvest sub-region when needed – allowing kangaroos to be used commercially that would be otherwise be managed non-commercially.
• Expand the Hills and Fleurieu harvest sub-region to include the Adelaide foothills and national parks and reserves to enable more consistent kangaroo management.

Background

The South Australian Commercial Kangaroo Management Plan guides and regulates the sustainable commercial harvest of kangaroos in our state.

The plan enables commercial harvesting to take place whilst balancing the long-term conservation kangaroos in South Australia. The plan:

• identifies which species can be harvested
• identifies where it can take place
• informs sustainable harvest quotas.

It is reviewed and updated every 5 years to ensure it is based on the best available scientific knowledge and management practices.

You can learn more about kangaroo management in South Australia in our frequently asked questions.

Get involved

Find out more by:

• reading the draft plan
• taking a look at our FAQs
• asking us a question

Have your say by:

• taking our survey
• emailing a submission to kmp@sa.gov.au
• posting your written submission to:
  Kangaroo Management Program, Conservation and Wildlife Branch
  RE: Commercial Kangaroo Management Plan
  Department for Environment and Water
  GPO BOX 1047,
  ADELAIDE SA 5001

Please note we may make your feedback publicly available unless you indicate on the submission that you wish for it to remain confidential. Any responses that are made on a confidential basis may still be subject to access under Freedom of Information laws.

Please also be aware that we will receive and note any comments concerned with the merits of implementing kangaroo management in South Australia, or that demonstrate a philosophical objection to kangaroo harvesting.

What are the next steps?

Based on the feedback received, we will:

• Prepare a report outlining what we heard and how we used your feedback.
• Prepare the final management plan.
• Send the management plan to the South Australian Minister for Climate, Environment and Water for approval and adoption.
• Publish both the feedback report and the plan on this and on the Department for Environment and Water's websites in early 2025.