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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
Planning and conducting removal operations – the SA experience
John Virtue, Paul O’Leary, Phil Gee & Nick Secomb
Removal operations have been underpinned by landholder aspirations • Consultation
– Is required to achieve the most effective and acceptable control outcomes
– Considers indigenous, cultural and social factors
– Utilises local knowledge and expertise
– Delivers on the AFCMP objectives
– Collaborative approach across government
Determining removal method
• Aerial Cull • Muster • Combination of both
• Landholder aspirations • Effectiveness • Landscapes / logistics • Congregations • Density • Cultural sites • On-ground intelligence • Environmental assets • Available resources
Operational planning • Intelligence
− satellite collars − intelligence network − aerial survey /
reconnaissance
• Logistics
• Animal welfare • Safety • Target /no go zones • Internal/external
Communications
Decision support
• Efficient, opportunistic control to address a range of impacts and resource availability
Aerial cull - rapid response • Processes were developed
to allow for quick response to threats to fragile ecosystems or community infrastructure caused by congregations
Aerial cull – landscape scale • Aerial survey & reconnaissance
‘hot spots’ • No go areas
Implementation – aerial cull
• Animal welfare audits − flight following
behind cull − verification
Implementation – aerial cull
• Remote area logistics • Working across
jurisdictional borders • Engaging a range of
stakeholders
Implementation - mustering • Removal assistance • Animal welfare audits • Verification • Training
Compliance Requirement Comment Mustering
03
Yes Noif no, add comment
Mustering must not be conducted if camels are in poor body condition (CAM003 p.75 dotpoint 1)
04
Yes Noif no, add comment
Not present to audit
Camels must never be driven to the point of collapse CAM003 p.86 dotpoint 3)
05
Yes Noif no, add comment
Not present to audit
The tail end of the mob must be used to set the pace of the muster rather than be forced to keep up with the leaders (CAM003 p.75 dotpoint 3)
Four camels at the tail end of the mob were pushed to keep up with the rest of the mob.
06
Yes Noif no, add comment
Not present to audit
Camels should be allowed to drop out of groups that are being mustered if required to protect the safety and welfare of the animals or operators (CAM003 p.86 dotpoint 6)
06b
Yes Noif no, add comment
Not present to audit
Camels identified in 6 above which are not easily mustered should be culled humanely in accordance with agreed best practise (CAM003 p.86 dotpoint 6)
Three camels were allowed to drop out of the muster but these camels were not culled. This would have been very difficult given the terrain and the effort required to conduct the muster.
06c
Yes Noif no, add comment
Not present to audit
Camels identified in 6 above which are not easily mustered are able to be culled humanely in accordance with agreed best practise (AFCMP only)
Yes, firearm present
07
Yes Noif no, add comment
Camels are provided with access to water as soon as possible after capture, either through yard watering or through succulent feed while being moved or held in open areas (CAM003 p.88 dotpoint 3)
Water trough was available to camels in holding yard.
Implementation - mustering • Targeted removal assistance
provided cow removal incentive (environmental/commercial partnership)
• Generates income and jobs (particularly indigenous)
• Flow on effects into broader local economy
• Animal welfare outcomes were improved
SA outcomes from AFCMP • Simpson Desert
• Reduced camel density by over 90% • Almost 50% of 2010 population removed
• Redeploy satellite collars and camera trapping continue to monitor/aerial shoot programs
• APY • 16,000 camels removed • Develop emergency management plan • Continue to support removal programs • Capacity building
• GVD • Rapid response to potential impacts on Yalata coast, Dog Fence and
Eyre highway • Continue to monitor satellite collars
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