Australia is I believe the only place where the camels are wild and free range. Everywhere else they are regarded as domestic stock.

In reality we should be farming them and shooting them for human consumption. Camel meat is quite nice to eat. The thing holding back hunting for human consumption is probably cost of doing it in very remote areas, and the usual crap about killing and butchering standards that infests our cotton wool modern world.

In the meantime hunting camels for trophies, sport, or culls seems to be the go

Shooting them from gov't paid helicopters seems to be a massive waste of taxpayers money when alternatives DO EXIST. But we also currently have a gov't bragging about wasting massive amounts of taxpayers money, which will take a generation to pay off, so what's the difference?