Waterholes Wildlife Sanctuary Specialising in Koalas & Kangaroos
Caring for sick, injured, orphaned and abandoned Kangaroos & Koalas.
East Gippsland Shire Council
Let's be proactive for our wildlife and
help reduce the road toll help save lives.
Help reduce the workload on the volunteer wildlife carers attending the casualties.
Help reduce the workload on vets and the police having to treat and euthanase.
We need to follow other councils approach and look after the Wildlife and in turn the Community.
Forge Creek Road is a death zone since East Gippsland Water commenced killing kangaroos. 💔💔💔
It is dangerous to motorists and rescuers...
Let's do something positive🙏🙏
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Beautiful Bonny one of our Kangaroos currently in care. She was caught in a fence on Raymond Island.
Bonny will be introduced to the mob in care, once she is recovered from her injuries.
For now shes in 5 star accommodation!!
Update to come shortly on the killing of kangaroos by East Gippsland Water.
Lots of information to share.
We all need to be a voice and care for our residents.
A huge thankyou to every single person who supports our work and cares for the wildlife.
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Heal well, little one! 🥰
Wishing Bonny a full recovery, you're all doing a wonderful job 👍
Lucky Bonny ❤️
Baby Bonny below, is new in care after being caught in a fence, on Raymond Island.
She has wound to her toe and temporary paralysis in her left leg.
Thank-you everyone for supporting our work.
A huge part of our work now, is fighting for an end to kangaroo harvesting and reform of the ATCW permits. Babies like Bonny are cruelly killed in any cull, there is no care.
The legal framework written, code of practice, fails to prevent cruelty to animals, in kangaroo killing.
No independent welfare over sight, kangaroo lives are totally in the hands of the shooters only.
This is simply unlawful and the cruelty must end.
The permit to kill kangaroos by East Gippsland Water is still active until March 2027.
We cannot trust they won't kill more.
Approximately 50% of the population is gone. Updates on this to come with Freedom of Information documents.
We are still seeking confirmation on how many exactly they say they killed.
We know they requested 250 with 158 authorised. But numbers don't add up...
Please sign the petition and share👇💪
c.org/Sqyy59Qtc5
Please email the Minister
Enver Erdogan MP
Call for the ATCW permit to be cancelled and an audit of this cull.
The Hon Enver Erdogan
minister.erdogan@deeca.vic.gov.au
Cc enver.erdogan@parliament.vic.gov.au
🙏🌞🦘
#kangaroo
#stopanimalcruelty
#stopthecull
#livesmatter
#australianwildlife
#saveanimals
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Beautiful Bonny 🥰
Beautiful girl ❤️❤️❤️
All those poor kangas killed for eating grass. They have every right to live on the lands they have evolved on over millions of years
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Two of our young boys engaging in normal behaviour. As they get older they behave like this to find their position in the mob.
The best boxer wins!! They spar for dominance when older to assert who is boss.(Alpha Male)
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Latest update-
This week the 4-7-2026, Georgie Purcell - Animal Justice Party MP will be addressing the Environment Minster
The Hon Enver Erdogan MP as a follow up to her last speech.
We have asked the Minister to respectively revoke the remaining 9 months of the ATCW permit, to ensure the remaining population of kangaroos are safe from harm from East Gippsland Water farm management.
There are serious, unanswered questions in relation to the conduct and the position of the senior coordinator of farm operations, including others that maybe involved with decision-making and evidence used to obtain a cull permit.
We are questioning a statement released by East Gippsland Water claiming Deeca independently visited the properties and obtained evidence to support the killing.
To date none has been disclosed or proven.
The remaining population across all three properties, is approximately 50% of the original population prior to the killing at the end of May.
This puts the kangaroos killed at approximately 200 but unconfirmed.
This has been obtained from evidence gathered from regular monitoring of numbers.
So how many exactly were killed and what exactly was allowed on this permit?
There has been no disclosure to the Community.
Please explain East Gippsland Water
Why did you kill kangaroos ?
Please explain DEECA Gippsland
Why did you issue a permit to allow the killing?
There simply is no justified evidence to support the authorisation of this permit to kill kangaroos.
On behalf of the Community, including 7000 plus signatures opposing this killing, we will continue to seek answers, revoke the active permit and protect the remaining population from harm.
Please continue to be a voice, please share the petition. 👇
c.org/Sqyy59Qtc5
Tune in to listen to parliamentary discussions on the 4th of July.
www.parliament.vic.gov.au/watch
Please email
minister.erdogan@deeca.vic.gov.au
Cc enver.erdogan@parliament.vic.gov.au
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Yes! Go Georgie! ❤
Keep fighting everyone
Fuck the developers and Importing more unwanted feral humans 🎯
The East Gippsland Water kangaroo killing at the end of May, has serious ongoing cause for concern.
Farm management is highly questionable.
How can the public have any assurance the remaining kangaroos are safe?
We, along with many others, are questioning the claims made by East Gippsland Water.
We wont rest until the remaining population are protected and all non lethal management undertaken for the future.
We are requesting the current ATCW permit to be revoked and assurance in writing the kangaroos are safe for the future.
The properties are extremely unique with Colquhoun State forest at Kalimna and Forge Creek Reserve at Eagle Point, it is imperative these kangaroo populations are respected.
Metung has private property returned to nature also.
We have these forests for a reason, for nature to live in peace....
This is home for the kangaroos.
East Gippsland Water have created a smorgasbord of food, so ethically and morally they need to do what's right and send the right message to our children.
Killing nature for our selfishness and what may appear as an inconvenience, man created, is not right...
Video below taken of the Metung mob.
Low numbers of Kangaroos have been recorded since the end of May, in all the locations.
East Gippsland Water remain silent on disclosure, but claim Deeca independently inspected and found evidence that warranted lethal control...
We ask, please explain as no such evidence as been found, to support this claim.
The residents living along side the properties, and other independent people, have been monitoring all properties.
There is no truth to the claims that East Gippsland Water and Deeca have stated.
The petition remains active until we achieve protection for the kangaroos.
Please continue to sign and share.
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c.org/Sqyy59Qtc5
Please continue to be a voice, the kangaroos need us to keep them safe.
Paper version of the petiton is now around 1000 signatures, on top of the 6500 on line.
Please write to The Environment Minister of Victoria
Enver Erdogan MP
Minister.erdogan@deeca.vic.gov.au
Cc
Enver.Erdogan@parliament.vic.gov.au
Please write to Deeca Conservation Regulator
Conservationregulator@deeca.vic.gov.au
Our native icon deserves better.
The violent act of killing is not the answer.
East Gippsland Water and Deeca, you can do better.
A special thankyou to all the volunteers working tirelessly for the kangaroos.
A huge thank-you to all the people who have signed the petition, written emails made phone calls and continue to speak out, such an incredible response.
It really shows how valued our native Australian icon is.
🙏🙏🙏🦘🦘🦘
#wildlife
#kangaroo
#WildlifeMatters
#saveourwildlife
#beavoiceforthevoiceless
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Just to clarify, the land where the kangaroos are being shot is next to wildlife reserves which has kangaroos which hop on to the East Gippsland Water land because it has nice food for them, and then they get shot, most probably reducing the number of kangaroos on the nature reserve too?
In New Zealand we have an "Official Information Act" which requires national and local govt bodies to answer questions sent to them under the Act. Does Australia not have such an act whereby if you ask, for instance, "How many kangaroos were killed in such and such cull" they would have to tell you? The NZ OIA requires the govt body to tell the truth and give all the facts and figures requested where they are available.
Just a small mob of our beloved kangaroos, back off DEECA and East Gippsland Water.
