Australia permits the killing of millions of wild animals every year. Australia’s wildlife is being slaughtered through government-sanctioned killing programs, recreational hunting, commercial industries and lethal control methods. The AJP commits to ending the mass killing of wildlife and replacing it with scientifically and ethically justified management strategies that recognise the intrinsic value of non-human animals.

Key Features

• Abolish lethal control methods, such as 1080 poison, shooting, trapping and bludgeoning.
• End all government-sanctioned wildlife killing programs, including aerial and ground shooting, poisoning and commercial exploitation.
• Ban recreational and commercial hunting, including duck shooting, kangaroo killing and trophy hunting.
• Ban the export of products derived from wildlife, including kangaroo meat and skins.
• Strengthen legal protections for wildlife, removing exemptions that allow killing for commercial interests.
• Fund research into non-lethal alternatives for environmental management, including fertility control, wildlife-safe deterrents and others.
• Fund evidence based approaches to reduce wildlife road fatalities, such as virtual fencing
• Support farmers and communities in coexisting with wildlife, funding education, mitigation measures, compensation and habitat restoration.

What impact will this have:

• Save the lives of millions of native animals including kangaroos, possums, dingoes, wombats, koalas, magpies, kookaburras, cockatoos, corellas, galahs, ducks, sharks and others that are currently allowed to be killed under various government permits.
• End the cruel and indiscriminate poisoning, by 1080, that causes prolonged suffering and death in non-target species such as native wildlife and pet dogs in their own backyards.
• End factory ships and intensive fish farms, shark culling and bycatch policies that kill countless marine creatures​.
• End needless death and suffering by ensuring that non-lethal alternatives are prioritised in the control of rabbit, fox, deer, brumby, dingo and other animal populations​.
• Ensure just transition support for people working in industries that exploit wildlife - provide retraining and alternative employment pathways.
• Reinvest savings from ending ineffective lethal control programs - redirecting these funds towards sustainable and ethical animal management.