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Title
Australian Outback Camels
Artist
Chris Armytage
Medium
Painting - Digital Oil On Canvas
Description
Australian desert landscape oil on canvas, painted in digital impasto Copyright 2023 ChrisArmytage, Photographic Artist, Australia.
Feral camels are feral populations of dromedaries (Camelus dromedarius) in Australia. Imported from British India and Afghanistan during the 19th century for transport and construction during the colonisation of the central and western parts of Australia, many were released into the wild after motorised transport replaced the use of camels in the early 20th century, resulting in a fast-growing feral population.
With the departure of many Afghan cameleers in the early 20th century, and the introduction of motorised transportation in the 1920s and 1930s, some cameleers released their camels into the wild. Well suited to the arid conditions of Central Australia, these camels became the source for the large population of feral camels still existing today.
By 2008, it was [incorrectly] feared that Central Australia's feral camel population had grown to about one million and was projected to double every 8 to 10 years. Camels are known to cause serious degradation of local environmental and cultural sites, particularly during dry conditions.
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