Paul McCartney is being urged to help save hundreds of kangaroos from being killed in Australia, animal rights activists said Monday.
The campaigners are hoping the former Beatle, who is a member of an animal rights group that has opposed the cull, will help fund a plan to relocate the kangaroos instead of killing them.
The government says it is necessary to kill about 400 kangaroos because they are damaging defense department land near the capital Canberra.
Australian authorities initially said they would move the kangaroos, but now insist the $3.29 million cost to do so is not a good use of taxpayers’ money.
A spokesman for the National Kangaroo Protection Coalition said the group would ask the multimillionaire music legend to help pay for the animals to be moved.
The spokesman says, “Defense says cost is an issue, but experts have told us that it could cost as little as 750,000 dollars.
“We have had a lot of offers of donations.”
The cull is expected to begin soon and take a few weeks, but protesters said they would do all they could to save the kangaroos.
Animal Liberation spokesman Bernard Brennan said his group was determined to prevent the slaughter.
“We’ll do whatever it takes, I’ve made a promise to these kangaroos,” he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
The animals will reportedly be shot with tranquilizing darts and then euthanized with a lethal drug.
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