Rotting Camel Carcasses Poisoning Countless Outback Waterholes & Creeks - Native Wildlife Dying

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The rotting carcasses of thousands of wild camels who have died of thirst in Australia's desert Outback are polluting vital waterholes and sacred sites, a report said Thursday. The Central Land Council, which administers Aboriginal land in the nation's arid centre, said the corpses were poisoning water supplies, describing scenes of mass carnage.

"Some fall into waterholes and won't be able to get out so they'll rot within the water, others will chase the last remains of any water in these areas and start to compete with each other," the council's land management chief David Alexander told public broadcaster ABC. "We're ending up with these grisly scenes of camels in every stage of life, death and decay around waterholes," he said.

Thousands of pools, creeks and other water supplies for local indigenous tribes were rendered undrinkable by the decay, with a "significant health risk" when they are refilled by rain, he said. Without significant rainfall, Alexander said tens of thousands more camels in the drought-gripped region faced a similar fate, with dire environmental and cultural consequences.

"It has the capacity to change the flow of water, it changes the character of these places and some of the specific features around them have their own cultural significance, they have stories associated with them, ceremonial songs," he said. Native animals were also perishing as a result of the mass deaths, with "massive" impacts on biodiversity, he said.

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http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Rotting_camels_poisoning_Australian_water_supplies_report_999.html

[Vincardog]

1. And there are STILL a lot of Global Warming deniers down under.

[Massacure]

2. Why are camels dying of thirst by waterholes?

:wtf: