Interactive dashboards for adaptive predator management on APN countryPest Animal and Weed Symposium, Gold Coast, 20-23 May 2019

HEALTH AND BIOSECURITY

Jens Froese, Justine Murray, Justin Perry & Sandy Whyte

APN Cape York rangers• Aak Puul Ngantam = Our father’s father’s country

• Wik people

• Aurukun Shire Council

• Purpose • Return to country

• Look after country and culture

• Indigenous Land and Sea Ranger Program

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Source: APN

• Significant marine turtle hatchery

• Olive Ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea), nationally endangered

• Flatback turtle (Natator depressus), nationally vulnerable

Marine turtle conservation on APN country

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Source: Colin Limpus

Source: Colin Limpus

Turtle conservation on APN country• Marine turtle threats

• adults (pollution, ghost nets, boat strikes, …)

• nesting (development, disturbance, sea level rise, depredation)

• Nest to Ocean turtle protection program• improve nesting success through

active predator control

• baiting, shooting, fencing, meshing

• monitoring

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Source: AQIS

Source: Balkanu

Monitoring, evaluation and reporting (MER)

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Source: CSIRO

• External• accountability for investments

• policy formation

• Internal• planning and design

• adaptive management

• coordination

• Program logic focused onoutcomes

Monitoring on APN country

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Source: Gina Zimny

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Interactive evaluation dashboards• Tech pathway for implementing MER and adaptive management

• ‘Business intelligence’ (BI) dashboards …

• turn data into insights• real-time data integration

• quantitative/location-based analyses

• interactive visualisations

• cloud storage/sharing

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Source: Gina Zimny

Data inputs• Feral pig aerial control 2013-18

• Turtle nest depredation 2015-18

• Turtle nest meshing and hatching success 2018

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Source: Gina Zimny

Source: Gina Zimny

Participatory approach• Indicators of success (desired outcomes)

• Data sharing

• Interactive planning sessionFeb 2019

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Source: APN

Source: APN

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Evaluation summary• Feral pig aerial control:

• no clear link between aerial control, feral pig population size, and turtle nest depredation

• Turtle nest depredation:• depredation hot spots and key times identified

for each predator species

• Turtle nesting and meshing success• program achieves objectives

• meshing is only partly effective

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Conclusions and next steps• Empowering rangers

• Map-based visualizations particularly useful

• Adaptive management decisions• less aerial control or turtle nest meshing

• more targeted predator control at key times and locations

• Next steps: “closing the loop”• refine indicators

• fill information gaps

• automate workflows

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CSIRO Health and BiosecurityDr Jens FroesePostdoctoral Research Fellow

t +61 7 3833 5743m +61 432 849 952e Jens.Froese@csiro.auw https://www.csiro.au/en/Research/BF

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