Call for compound bows to be banned as wildlife kills increase

The female kangaroo shot through the leg in Grafton in January Photo: P Edwards WIRES WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES Animal welfare authorities are at a loss to explain the cruelty that is injuring and killing some of Australia's native animals. For four days in January a female kangaroo struggled through the bushes of a golf course in Grafton, pushing herself on until she collapsed from the loss of blood that had trickled out of her right leg. The injuries suffered by the kangaroo in Grafton Photo: Patricia Edwards An arrow as long as her body had pierced her calf. ...