Red sand blasted my neck and face as winds relentlessly swirled across Australia’s Outback. Sitting atop a small, rocky outcropping, I pressed the binocular into my eye sockets to block the stinging ...

These 1,000-pound creatures travel in large herds and can smell water miles away. Now, the race is on to stop them from inundating Australia’s fragile ecosystems—one camel burger at a time. Weighing ...

CANBERRA, Australia — Kill a camel, earn cash for cutting greenhouse gases: That offer may be coming soon in Australia, where vast numbers of the nonnative, methane-belching animals have been ...

There are many exotic species native to Australia: The kangaroo, the koala, the kookaburra. But the camel is not among them. Australia is now home to more wild camels than any other country on earth.

Ten years ago, Australian cattle grazier Paul Martin decided that he couldn’t stand to see another camel shot. In the 1800s, camels were shipped to Australia from the Middle East, India and ...