The first camels in Australia arrived in the 19th century, brought from India and Afghanistan during the exploration of the most desertic regions of the continent. With the advent of new means of transport, camels went obsolete and were released into the wild. Currently, with the large number of feral camels that exist and continue to reproduce, hundreds of thousands are sacrificed each year by the officials in an effort to control their population and reduce the damage these animals cause to the environment as an alien species.

Some local entrepreneurs want to offer an alternative solution to their senseless sacrifice and their dairy farms are betting on the growing demand for camel milk and its by-products worldwide. Camel milk, although still very expensive compared to cow's milk, is a milk known and consumed for centuries in some countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, but it is still unknown in many western markets despite the multiple health benefits attributed to it.