Red sand blasted my neck and face as winds relentlessly swirled across Australia’s Outback. Sitting atop a small, rocky outcropping, I pressed the binocular into my eye sockets to block the stinging ...

A huge mob of 1,000 feral camels have been spotted rampaging through a town in the Australian outback searching for water amid record-breaking temperatures. The rural town of Mount Liebig, roughly 200 ...

Snipers took to helicopters in Australia on Wednesday to begin a mass cull of up to 10,000 camels as drought drives big herds of the feral animals to search for water closer to remote towns, ...

The Northern Territory government is calling for Commonwealth support to stop hundreds of feral camels from wreaking "havoc" in remote communities in Central Australia, with the animals damaging water ...

Reports from a recent feral camel cull estimate numbers have been reduced to 300,000 – half the population in 2008. A FERAL CAMEL CULL may have halved the population of the wild animals across ...

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - Authorities in Australia's Outback said Tuesday that they plan to shoot wild camels from helicopters because the rapidly expanding population is encroaching on ranch land — an idea ...