Reducing feral camel impacts through Australia's Feral Camel Management Project
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Reducing feral camel impacts through Australia's Feral Camel Management Project
- 1. Reducing feral camel impacts across remote Australia: Australian Feral Camel Management Project 21st November 2013, Parliament House Theatre, Canberra
- 2. Session Two: Governance and Delivery Speakers: Billy Landy, Mark Jeffries and Peter See Byron Brooks, Ethan Hansen, Troy Hansen and Peter Twigg Mike Eathorne, Meramist Pty Ltd Andy Bubb, Ninti One John Virtue, Biosecurity SA Bidda Jones, RSPCA
- 3. Establishing the environmental assessment framework and national network of monitoring sites Andy Bubb
- 4. Australian Feral Camel Management Project Ninti One Steering Committee South Australian Operations Group Northern Territory Operations Group Australian Government National Operations Group Western Australian Operations Group MERI Group On-ground Monitoring Group Feral Camel Geodatabase Group
- 5. Objectives Australian Govt-Ninti One contract targets: 1. Protect identified refuges for biodiversity in northern and remote Australia by reducing density of camels in ‘surrounding areas’ to <0.1 animals/sq km. 2. Protect high priority non-Ramsar high conservation value aquatic ecosystems. 3. Improve soil management on pastoral properties.
- 6. • Extensive MERI Plan at the start of the AFCMP • Program Logic established
- 7. What improves as the feral camels are removed?
- 9. MERI (Monitor, Evaluate, Review, Improvement) Monitors 26 measures across: • Camel removal • Environmental impact • Land management • Capacity building and public support • Infrastructure damage • Compliance with SOP • Communication and extension
- 10. Feral Camel Removal Sep-09 Dec-09 Mar-10 Jun-10 Sep-10 Dec-10 Mar-11 Jun-11 Sep-11 Dec-11 Mar-12 Jun-12 Sep-12 Dec-12 Mar-13 Jun-13 Sep-13 180000 160000 140000 120000 100000 80000 60000 40000 20000 0 Aerial cull Petmeat Muster Total Removal
- 12. Environmental Impact 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Sensitive species Predators Camels absent Species with gills Camels present Mulga not stunted 0.5 0.45 0.4 0.35 0.3 0.25 0.2 0.15 0.1 0.05 0 2 m tall / 1 m wide = 2 stunted Unbrowsed Browsed 1 m tall / 2 m wide = 2 10
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- 15. Land Management • Number of land managers adopting new conservation measures • Area of land managed by landholders adopting new conservation measures 87
- 16. Capacity building and public support • Number of partnerships established, supported and contributed to • Improved long term capacity to remove camels • Changing Views of landholders about the feral camel impact and management 88
- 19. Communication and extension • Number of Written Products • Number of Media articles • Number training sessions 91
- 21. Improvement • No individual has all of the questions or answers, seek many experts! • Environmental monitoring timeframes will always be tight, work with it • Continual collaboration building • Seek enduring benefit where possible, not just project specific monitoring