KILLING kangaroos for commercial harvesting will be expanded this year after the State Government increased the quota by a third.

The annual quota for the state’s Kangaroo’s Harvesting Program (KHP) under the Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions (DJPR), which began in 2019 to manage kangaroo numbers in rural areas and provide commercial pet food, will be set at 127,850 for 2022, up from 95,680 in 2021.