Aussies told to consume camels to save deserts

Australians were urged yesterday to eat camels to stop them wreaking environmental havoc, just months after being told to save the world from climate change by consuming kangaroos.

A three-year study has found that Australia's population of more than a million feral camels - the largest wild herd on earth - is out of control and damaging fragile desert ecosystems and water sources.

The Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Center, which produced the report, plans to serve camel meat at a barbecue for senior public servants in Canberra today to press its point.