Animal Justice Party MP Mark Pearson is travelling to China today in a bid to stop the expansion of Australia's multi-million-dollar kangaroo meat market.

Australia exports kangaroo meat to more than 50 countries and is working on a memorandum of understanding for China to import the meat.

Mr Pearson, who represents the Animal Justice Party in the Upper House, will travel to China in an attempt to convince their government to re-evaluate the deal.

Mr Pearson said killing kangaroos is cruel, unsustainable, disrespectful to Indigenous values and unhygienic.

"This is filthy meat. It's rife with salmonella, with E. coli and other bacteria," he said.

"It is a dangerous meat to be selling and exporting to other countries."

Russia banned Australian kangaroo meat imports for the second time last year due to unacceptable levels of E. coli bacteria.

Mr Pearson also believes killing kangaroos is un-Australian.

"Here we have the kangaroo on the Australian coat of arms on the Federal Parliament and we're blasting away millions of them every year," he said.

The ACT Government has recently finished its 2015 kangaroo cull, killing 1,689 adult animals and 701 joeys.

Residents in southern NSW, particularly around the Riverina town of Moama, claim kangaroo numbers are exploding and there have been calls to kill the animals for their meat.

However, Aboriginal elder Uncle Max Dulumunmun Harrison, who is travelling to China with Mr Pearson, said the animals numbers are not as high as people think.

"Pretty soon, if this continues we would have to be looking to set up zoos, and try and put our kangaroos in zoos overseas," he said.

Uncle Max said the kangaroo is also a deeply spiritual animal for many Aboriginal people.

"When our people have totems, they never kill that totem because that totem looks after them," he said.

NSW Primary Industries Minister Niall Blair has described Mr Pearson's trip as irresponsible.

"I think it's the role of NSW MPs to be advocating for NSW," he said.

"That's NSW communities, NSW jobs and the families that rely upon those.

"What we see here is an example of a NSW MP working against the best interest of NSW communities, so I just can't understand it."

Mr Blair said kangaroo meat is viable, sustainable and regulated.

"For anyone to be going out and trying to work against those NSW businesses and the people who are employed by those NSW businesses, against that emerging market, I think is irresponsible," he said.