'Kangaroo Mob' - propaganda for wildlife trade and sadistic deviants?

Your argument is cute but ultimately hypocritical and counterproductive. The sustainable population of any species within any given environment is a variable. To allow the kangaroo to become a sacred cow would cause long term imbalance to its environment. Such damage would not some how be justified even if we were to snap our fingers and magically wipe out our environmental footprint. A romantic tit for tat solution has no place in environmental management. You are also making several false assumptions: We cannot return our environment to some ideal pre-European invasion model, any more than we can turn back time. The life of individual animals are not important in an environmental context. Life is sacred but so too is death. Life demands death. The price of all life is death. The finality of life is what makes it so precious. That humans kill animals is not unusual or even important, what is important is why they kill and how. Human values of morality and compassion are alien to most animals. Some may be cute and furry but they are not innocent angels by our romantic ideals. What we call cruel is simply a way of life to many animals. Should we be proactive in redressing environmental damage? Of course. Should we modify our behaviour to make it more sustainable? Of course. Should we control world wide human population growth? Of course. Should we use all means necessary to prevent localised wildlife overpopulation in a modified environment? Yes. Should our methods and targets be under constant review? Yes. Should we try to restore the past? No. We must attempt to build a new balance of nature, knowing that this will be a dynamic balance. Dehumanising humans as a species is pure fascism. We can choose to part of the solution or the problem, but there will always be death and destructive forces at work. Sometimes it will pay to counteract these forces if the pressure on biodiversity and sustainability becomes too great. Sometimes the damage of the past will come back to haunt us. But in an idea world there should be a balance of destructive and creative forces. Having said that, humans have a LOT of damage to repair before we have the luxury of letting things run their course. We wanted power over the planet and now we have it. Once taken, we cannot easily give it back. Life on Earth now depends on humans. It would not survive our demise because we have poisoned the planet too much. This is why we cannot drop out and turn our backs on civilisation.

I don't know how many kangaroos there are now in Australia but I imagine it would far fewer then 200 million. That kangaroos would be advantaged by the loss of habitat from land clearing, fences criss crossing where they want to go and loss of wildlife corridors and that they would be better off with increasing numbers of humans using more and more of the land for their own purposes does not make sense.

As Judge Judy says "If it doesn't make sense it is not true.