But then read the last sentence:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/l...c-traditional-hunts/ ________________________
(Australia)
Indigenous hunters could be jailed for up to two years if they kill wildlife in cruel ways.

The Queensland opposition says it will introduce new regulations, outlawing unnecessarily cruel traditional hunting practices, if it wins government.

The draft regulations follow the release on YouTube of a video showing a turtle having its flippers and flesh cut off while it was still alive.

Opposition leader John-Paul Langbroek said the sickening video was brought to his attention earlier this year and it was clear something needed to be done.

He said it should be illegal for anyone exercising traditional hunting rights to wound, mutilate, torture or unnecessarily prolong the death of any animal.

The regulations would close a loophole that had allowed some individuals to abuse the traditional hunting allowances and subject dugong and turtles to prolonged, excruciating deaths, Mr Langbroek said.

"This behaviour is not acceptable and new regulations could provide a stronger legal framework to discourage this practice," he said in a statement on Monday.

Opposition environment spokesman Jack Dempsey challenged the Bligh government to adopt the regulations.

"Keeping a turtle alive while it is cut up or letting a dugong bake to death in the sun is a practice that should be outlawed," he said.

"No-one is calling for a ban on all traditional hunting but we must consider the long-term survival of these species and the treatment of these animals - this cruelty is simply not necessary."

The draft regulations propose a maximum penalty of $200,000 and/or two years' jail for anyone who wounds, mutilates, tortures, abuses, or terrifies an animal, or unnecessarily prolongs its death.

They also outlaw the use of traditional or non-traditional hunting methods "of a barbaric nature that cause the animal to die slowly or in unreasonable pain".

And they make it illegal to take animals other than for immediate, non-commercial consumption.

Forget the indigenous people.... I reckon they ought to do something about those cruel sharks and crocodiles that like to chew on the turtles and dugongs!!

I've seen large Turtles , speared through a flip , turned on they backs or tied to a tree in the baking sun (to keep them fresh) till some one got around to killing them , by tossing them on a fire!
Dugongs hunted in the traditional aluminum , petrol outboard motored , boat , speared with modern spear or using Traditional 22Mag rifle !!

No need for Traditional killing of endangered animals !
worse when done cruely !