Now Australia's burping buffalo is accused of global warming!!!

Northern Australia has long been home to herds of roaming buffalo, but an academic is now calling for the feral animals to be culled in a scheme that would reduce greenhouse gases and could allow local communities to sell carbon credits.

An estimated 150,000 buffalo roam remote areas in the country's north, in a seemingly unobtrusive manner. But their tendency to burp out vast amounts of methane is making a significant contribution to global warming, according to Charles Darwin University professor Stephen Garnett.

"Each adult buffalo produces the equivalent of about a tonne of carbon dioxide each year and they live quite a long time," he told ABC News over the weekend. "So that is a reasonable amount of carbon dioxide they are producing." More...

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