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Reducing feral camel impacts across remote Australia:
Australian Feral Camel Management Project
21st November 2013, Parliament House Theatre, Canberra
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
Establishing the environmental assessment framework and national network of monitoring sites Andy Bubb
Australian Feral Camel Management Project
Ninti One
Steering Committee
On-ground Monitoring Group
National Operations Group
MERI Group South Australian Operations
Group
Australian Government
Western Australian Operations Group
Feral Camel Geodatabase Group
Northern Territory Operations Group
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.
• Extensive MERI Plan at the start of the AFCMP
• Program Logic established
What improves as the feral camels are removed?
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
Feral Camel Removal
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13Aerial cull MusterPetmeat Total Removal
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Environmental Impact
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Unbrowsed Browsed
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2 m tall / 1 m wide = 2
stunted
1 m tall / 2 m wide = 2
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Sensitive species Predators Species with gills
Camels absent Camels present
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Environmental Impact
86
• Number of land managers adopting new conservation measures
• Area of land managed by landholders adopting new conservation measures
87
Land Management
• 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
Capacity building and public support
Infrastructure damage
90
Compliance with SOP
91
• Number of Written Products
• Number of Media articles
• Number training sessions
Communication and extension
www.feralcamels.com.au www.feralscan.org.au/camelscan
92
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
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