I read an article this week about the camel problem in the Australian Outback. I researched this issue a bit when I was in Australia in 2001 working on photo and writing projects, and now it appears the situation is becoming troublesome (from an environmental and Aboriginal-culture perspective).
Though camels are indigenous only to Asia and Africa, herds totaling over a million roam the Outback. The entire population has grown from animals abandoned by rail workers about a century ago after the trans-Australian railroad was built. I wrote a bit about this in my photo essay "Driving Australia's Nullarbor Plain."
