The kangaroo cull will no longer need an annual licence and will be cemented as a regular annual event at Canberra's nature reserves under a new kangaroo management plan.

The plan was released on Wednesday for comment.

Kangaroos at Weston this week in the government's fertility trial. The ACT government has launched a new kangaroo management plan. Credit:Rohan Thomson

Currently the Parks and Conservation service must apply to the Conservator of Flora and Fauna for a licence for the annual cull - and the licence can be appealed, an avenue for challenge that has tied up authorities in court cases most years since the cull began in 2009.

In 2015, the government issued a two-year licence, with the result that the 2016 cull went ahead without a challenge. Now it proposes getting rid of the need for a licence altogether. This week, the minister declared kangaroos a "controlled species", which allows the cull to go ahead without a licence.