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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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 [email protected] https://www.csiro.au/en/Research/BF
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