The Kangaroo Sanctuary Project

16/10/2026

South Australia's shame. One inhumane industry feeding another. Thank you Victorian Kangaroo Alliance for sharing this new report.

"3.4 The Domestic Market: Killing Kangaroos to Feed Greyhounds
Research conducted for this report has identified a significant, previously unexamined outlet
absorbing the surplus of a collapsing industry - Australia’s greyhound racing industry. As
the international skins and meat markets that once sustained the kangaroo industry have
contracted or are on the verge of total elimination, kangaroo meat has become a cheap,
high-volume feed source for Australian racing greyhounds, tying two industries widely
regarded as inherently cruel and inhumane directly together. Society does not generally
accept the large-scale commercial killing of wild animals to feed companion animals on this
scale; it is harder still to justify killing wild animals specifically to feed dogs bred and raced
for gambling.
The connecting figure between the two industries is Ray Borda, managing director of Macro
Group Australia, a company that controls the country’s largest retail distribution of kangaroo
meat and supplies Australian supermarkets and major export markets. Borda also serves as
national president of the Australian Wild Game Industry Council (AWGIC), the peak body
representing the kangaroo industry. Borda has been involved in greyhound racing for four
decades and has, at various points, owned as many as 1,400 greyhounds, with around 300
actively racing as of 2026 under the “Aston” prefix used for his breeding operation. Borda
has, according to sources, harvested profits totaling $18 million from his greyhound racing.
The Macro Group markets kangaroo mince explicitly as high-performance bulk feed for
Australia’s racing greyhounds. One arm of Borda’s kangaroo meat business, Fresh Pet Food
Co, sponsors the Greyhound Adoption Program and greyhound races in South Australia,
and is located on the same Athol Park site as Macro Group Australia. These multiple roles,
as a kangaroo industry consultant, the largest kangaroo meat exporter, a major greyhound
owner/racer, and a meat supplier to that same industry, present direct conflicts of interest
that, to date, appear to have gone unexamined by regulators in either industry."

Read more here https://animalwellnessaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Australias-Global-Bushmeat-Trade-101026.pdf?fbclid=IwY2xjawU_H3xleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBWJyaWQRMXNndFFhQk9aRDdGdXEwY2pzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeYFyHGNTxGRF-hs2yNdVYFKKgf8M6bPkraSeHdCVCeuXPzc8GKR-GNyaaiWM_aem_qyCgoWU614A63EJCvX0b9Q

13/10/2026

World Kangaroo Day, our favourite day of the year, is just around the corner on 24 October 2026! We've been so busy with joeys that it's snuck up on us! 🦘💚

This year's theme is Revere and Respect, and the World Kangaroo Day photo competition is your chance to show what that looks like to you.

You only have two days left to enter. Entries close on 15 October!

Have a photo of a kangaroo that makes you stop and smile? Maybe one that shows just how special they are? Dig through your camera roll tonight and send it in.

📸 Enter here: https://www.worldkangarooday.org/photography

📣 Follow the World Kangaroo Day page for all the updates: https://www.facebook.com/WorldKangarooDayOct24

Tag a friend who takes great kangaroo photos so they don't miss out!

13/10/2026

Good for the soul 🦘❤️

03/10/2026

Wildlife carers have spent months begging for PPE so they can rescue birds safely. We are still begging, and the meagre support finally offered isn’t worth the fuel it will cost to drive and pick it up at the government’s chosen pick up location. Meanwhile money is being thrown at every other group and sector other than wildlife rescue. I can’t tell you how many carers have asked me why the state government hate wildlife rescuers in the last month. I’ve lost count.

Now the state government is cutting down trees in Possum Park for a golf course and a Moto GP, and carers are left taking in the native birds that lost their homes. Nobody is paying them for it. They will be feeding, cleaning and running care schedules for months, all out of their own pockets.

The government makes the decision and volunteers cover the cost. Carers should not have to beg for protective gear, and they should not have to pay to clean up after government decisions. It is unfair, it keeps happening, and we are sick of it.

27/09/2026

Alongside our love of kangaroos, we also love and advocate for wombats.

Wombats are very much maligned and commonly killed under SA government issued destruction permits, permits that are meant to require non‑lethal options first, but in practice this doesn't usually happen. They’re also regularly killed when burrows are destroyed, sometimes illegally, leaving them buried alive.

A wombat’s safe place is their burrow. When threatened, they run in and stay there. They can’t just dig out, as they try to dig out they push dirt behind, sealing themselves off from air.

Once you’ve heard a wombat scratching to get out, you never forget it. 🖤

Good morning brains trust. I really need advice/ideas please 🙏

As our long term followers would know, I've been advocating for wild wombats for a very long time...21 years.

I'm not getting anywhere.

I stopped posting about the reports we get because I had so many of you tell me you wish you hadn't seen my post, that you can't sleep and are traumatised.

I care and that is the last thing that I ever want to do.

I also had nothing to give you when you asked how to help.

The government gives stock standard replies that try to make you feel ok, the media twists the subject to me being a crazy person.

I've had every threat you can imagine including to my life and the lives of my sweethearts in care.

None of this matters because the reality is, these darlings are still being buried alive.

The laws need to be changed, no doubt but the government has less than zero interest. If I could get compelling footage of wombats running for their lives, that would change in an instant. Instead, they quietly hide underground suffering the unimaginable.

I do think it would help to put public pressure directly on the people/ company's actually doing this.

Just this week, I received a call about the council destroying wombat burrows.

I caught them out lying and I know there are wombats that have been buried alive.

The crazy thing is, there are legal ramifications for me to intervene, not against the people who are actually breaking the law. It is illegal to bury wombats alive however, it's almost impossible to prove it as the government accepts 'duty of care' which can be as simple and ridiculous as saying they thought the burrows were inactive, or they didn't see a wombat there 🤷‍♀️

I know of a lot of businesses that regularly do the wrong thing and despite my filming/confronting and providing the best evidence I can, absolutely nothing happens when I report to authorities.

I have exhausted all options. The laws have not improved and there are too many easy loopholes.

I had a thought the other day about showing you evidence then asking for your help to leave reviews on these business pages/google?
May not seem like much but it would expose what the businesses are doing. No one wants hundreds or thousands of bad reviews.
Even if they delete them, the rating stays the same.

I'm unsure about the ramifications towards this page right here. This is the wombats lifeline and I can't risk that.

Before the keyboard warriors bring on their 'you aren't doing enough' I need to remind you that I have 182 wombats in care and have not had more than 4 hours sleep at a time in decades. I'm extremely time poor but my heart and courage are with these babies, always!

Thank you for your time and please be kind and thoughtful with your responses x

26/09/2026

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