Lyndee Severin: 'Pastoralist views on feral camel impacts and management'. Reducing feral camel impacts across remote Australia: Australian Feral Camel Management Project Session 3 - Achievements and outcomes
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Lyndee Severin: 'Pastoralist views on feral camel impacts and management'. Reducing feral camel impacts across remote Australia: Australian Feral Camel Management Project Session 3 - Achievements and outcomes
- 1. Reducing feral camel impacts across remote Australia: Australian Feral Camel Management Project 21st November 2013, Parliament House Theatre, Canberra
- 2. Session Three: Achievements and Outcomes Speakers: Mark Lethbridge, Ecoknowledge Jayne Brim Box, Northern Territory Government Sam Rando, Central Land Council Karl Hampton, Ninti One Lyndee Severin, Curtin Springs Station Jan Ferguson, Ninti One
- 3. Pastoralist views on feral camel impacts and management Lyndee Severin
- 4. Curtin Springs Station is located on the Lasseter Highway in the Northern Territory 100km east of Ayers Rock • 1,028,960 acres, approx • 40km x 100km. • Running – 3500 – 4000 head of cattle. 2008 feral camel densities
- 5. Summer 2007/2008 These Mulga trees have all been mown off at grazing height. Damaged mulga trees on Curtin Springs 28th February 2007.
- 7. Pastoral industry in 2008 • wanted “immediate action rather than more talking about, planning to deal with, and monitoring of the problem”. • Camels were coming onto pastoral land in large numbers, from non-pastoral land • We knew there were lots of camels, there was little benefit to be gained by trying to count them – again…
- 8. Opportunistic Commercial Use • Camels CAN be trained to use the water traps, like cattle, but they must first be caught and trained • Not every animal is saleable • The cost of putting feral camels into a yard is more than the payment for them
- 9. Options for ‘control’ on the ground • Exclusion fencing • 3 strands of 3.8 tonne breaking strain cable. • 2 heights of mesh1.7km • $42,000
- 10. Options for ‘control’ on the ground
- 11. Control ‘options’ • Ground culling – Part of everyday activities – Effective ongoing control – Requires staff training and weapons • Aerial culling – Expensive for individuals – Requires coordinated approach – Effective for big hits in a short timeframe
- 12. Emergency cull
- 14. Emergency cull
- 15. Emergency cull
- 16. 2013 Pastoral Survey • 7 million ha under management • Impacts of $20k, up t0 $60k in 2010/11 • Aerial and ground control Feral camel impacts 2009-13 Other (please specify) Road safety Loss of biodiversity Spreading of weeds Water fouling Waterpoint infrastructure damage Fence damage Competition with livestock for feed and water 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
- 17. Car vs Camel Fouling water
- 18. Flow on effects of ground or aerial culling