...carring me olientar, offensive to me

i just read that in australia, the government authorizes the deaths of two million kangaroos anually. i am not really in aplace to say this an atrocity, for several reasons. first of all, i find it odd that they are willing to kill the kangaroo at all. its like their national bird. i also was not aware that there where even two million kangaroos worlwide, let alone in australia. do they outnumber people there? i could not even imagine how this i possible. plus, they must reproduce at an alarming rate to even keep up with the slaughtering demands. this would be odd as well, becuase i am fairly certain that they only reproduce with typically a single offspring. i am no zoologist thoug, so i am not a hundred percent on that fact. i will have to investigate this more when i get home.