SPORTS shoe makers promoting kangaroo skin football boots are causing seven million adult kangaroos and a million baby joeys to be slaughtered each year.
These are shot to supply world markets with high-priced kangaroo skins. Many animals are badly shot and hauled on to trucks by steel hooks while still alive.
It is the biggest massacre of land wildlife known.
Demand threatens the largest species of kangaroo, the red, and has the potential to cause extinction.
SHEILA BRENNAN (Mrs), Bombay Street, Blackburn.
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