Kangaroo-gate: Roo off the menu

Just when we were all getting used to the idea of "Skippy and Chips" in Garnaut's post-climate change world, it transpires that the kangaroo population could be devastated by... wait for it... climate change. You really can't make this stuff up.

A temperature rise of 2 degrees, which is likely by the second half of this century, would reduce the range of most kangaroo and wallaby species by half, the James Cook University study found.

However, the author of the study, Dr Euan Ritchie, was careful not to tread on Garnaut's delicate toes:

Dr Ritchie said the study findings did not rule out the expansion of kangaroo farming.

I would like to see how farmers, resourceful as they are, would successfully profit from an extinct animal...

Read it here.