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 ...

Helicopter-borne marksmen killed more than 5,000 camels in a five-day cull of feral herds that were threatening indigenous communities in drought-stricken areas of southern Australia, officials said ...

Hundreds of thousands of feral camels roam Australia's outback. There are 700,000 at the latest count, doubling every 10 years. They are shiftless descendants of the hard-working dromedaries brought ...

Feral camels A new website has been developed that enables the public to help experts assess the size of Australia's feral camel population, where they are and what havoc they are creating. The ...

CANBERRA, Australia — Kill a camel, earn cash for cutting greenhouse gases: That offer may be coming soon in Australia, where vast numbers of the nonnative, methane-belching animals have been ...

Camels were first introduced to Australia in the 1840s to aid in the exploration of the continent's vast interior. [AFP] Snipers took to helicopters in Australia on Wednesday to begin a mass cull of ...

Amidst the devastating wildfires spreading across Australia, up to 10,000 camels will be shot and killed following complaints that they are drinking too much water. The cull will begin Wednesday and ...

SOUTH AUSTRALIA, Australia — The same drought that has fueled deadly wildfires across Australia will now cost thousands of wild camels their lives. However, the feral animals won’t be killed by the ...

Forget about Australia’s Got Talent or The X Factor, because the search is now on the country’s best dromedary.