SYDNEY (29 March 2025)—NSW Government scientists have issued a damning condemnation of the state’s shark nets, stating that they could find ‘no evidence’ that shark nets decrease fatalities. The Response to the Shark Meshing (Bather Protection) Program 2023/2024 Annual Performance Report, was released late on Friday by the NSW Government’s...
Every year, Australia’s state and territory governments allow private
landholders to kill hundreds of thousands of native animals—animals that
are otherwise protected by law.
For the first time ever, the Licence to Kill report quantifies the national scale of the
licensed killing of Australia’s native wildlife using data obtained from state
and territory governments.
