Australia's commercial kangaroo harvest involves welfare considerations around shooting accuracy and joey fate.
Commercial kangaroo harvesting involves genuine welfare challenges. While the code of practice specifies humane killing methods, field conditions make consistent accuracy difficult. Incompletely stunned kangaroos may be handled while still conscious. Joeys discovered in the pouch are supposed to be killed, but this is not always done. The scale of the harvest means even low failure rates represent large absolute numbers.