From Today, 16 nature reserves will be closed for more than seven weeks for the Territory’s annual Kangaroo Management Program.

This year, the government is aiming to cull 2981 eastern grey kangaroos in reserves across the city.

The reserves will be closed from today until the end of July, from 6 pm to 6 am from Monday to Thursday.

They will remain open over the weekends from Friday morning to Monday evening.

ACT Conservator of Flora and Fauna, Bren Burkevics, said that the management program helps protect Canberra’s environment.

“The Kangaroo Management Program is part of a suite of land management activities including prescribed burning, invasive pests and animal control, invasive plant control, and restoration activities that work together to protect, conserve and enhance the ACT’s native grasslands,” he said.

The program aims to protect grasslands around the capital from overgrazing, which threatens many of the capital’s native plant and animal populations.
The Animal Justice Party has protested previous culls in the capital, calling them “unethical”

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