They say they culled the animals because they were suffering as a result of a recent bushfire that swept through the national park in early March, after a lightning strike ignited the landscape.

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They say they culled the animals because they were suffering as a result of a recent bushfire that swept through the national park in early March, after a lightning strike ignited the landscape.