The target species approach to wildlife management: gliders and owls in the forests of southeastern New South Wales

1991 ◽  
pp. 377-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. P. Kavanagh
Keyword(s):  
Wildlife Management ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Target Species ◽  
South Wales

Market Forces and Kangaroos: The New South Wales Kangaroo Management Plan

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-304
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Mills
Keyword(s):  
Wildlife Management ◽  
Habitat Management ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Management Zones ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Economic Framework ◽  
South Wales

AbstractIn contemporary times, wildlife managers attempt to provide solutions to problems arising from conflicting uses of the environment by humans and nonhuman animals. Within the Kangaroo Management Zones of New South Wales (NSW), the commercial culling "solution" is one such attempt to perpetuate kangaroo populations on pastoral land while supporting farmers in continuing inefficient sheep farming. Because wildlife management rests on a distinction between the "nature" of humans and animals, then humanist attention to standards of individual welfare need not interrupt the process whereby individual animals are killed within an economic framework designed to improve habitat management for the conservation of their populations. Building on Thorne's (1998) discussion of the meanings scripted onto individual kangaroo bodies, this paper explores the utilitarian underpinnings of the commercialization approach and considers the ethical implications of constructing the population as resource, even if this results in an improvement in the welfare of individual kangaroos.

An analysis of bait-take and non-target impacts during a fox-control exercise

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Dexter ◽  
Paul Meek
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The Other ◽  
Target Species ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Poison Baiting ◽  
Heath Forest ◽  
Free Feeding ◽  
Fox Control ◽  
Control Exercise

The effectiveness of a fox-control exercise at the Beecroft Peninsula, New South Wales, was evaluated by examining the change in proportion of baits taken during free-feeding and after lethal baiting in four different habitats (heath, forest, coastal scrub, beach), and the change in number of radio-collared foxes alive during the course of the baiting exercise. The change in proportion of baits taken by non-target species was also examined over the course of the study. Bait take declined by 97% from the initiation of poison baiting to the final day of poison baiting eight days later with significantly more baits being taken in heath than in any other habitat. Four out of six radio-collared foxes died on the first day of poison baiting while the other two foxes died within ten days of the start of the poison-baiting session. Black rats, currawongs and ravens took a small number of baits throughout the baiting exercise.

Use of infrared digital cameras to investigate aspects of the social behaviour of cryptic species

2004 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew W. Claridge ◽  
Greg Mifsud ◽  
James Dawson ◽  
Michael J. Saxon
Keyword(s):  
Cryptic Species ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
National Park ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Digital Cameras ◽  
Target Species ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Social ◽  
Technical Details

In this paper we report on the application of infrared digital cameras to investigate aspects of the breeding biology of the spotted-tailed quoll, an endangered marsupial carnivore. Technical details are provided about the cameras, which were deployed remotely at two ‘latrine’ sites used by the target species within Kosciuszko National Park in southern New South Wales, Australia. Examples of images captured by the cameras are presented, with notes on possible application of the same technology to better understand the social behaviour of rare and cryptic species.

Influence of 1080 bait colour on acceptability by target species and removal by non-target animals.

1985 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 140
Author(s):  
AK Rathore
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Target Species ◽  
Secondary Poisoning ◽  
South Wales

Baiting trials with meat and carrot baits poisoned with Compound 1080 were carried out on the periphery of three National Parks in New South Wales. The number of meat baits removed by birds was variable, but averaged 28% (+ 11). Colouring the meat baits green significantly reduced the number takenby birds, but did not affect their attractiveness to dogs and foxes. Poisoned carrot dyed green was as effectwe as undyed carrot in controlling rabbits. Reduction in rabbit populations using quarter concentration 1080 (0.083 mg 1080/ g of carrot) was comparable to that from usmg the standard concentration 1080 (0.333 mg 1080/ g of carrot). The use of lower concentration of 1080 in poisoning rabbits is more acceptable ecologically as it may reduce the risk of primary and secondary poisoning of non-target fauna.

scholarly journals Managing the Grey-headed Flying Fox as a threatened species in NSW

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 237
Author(s):  
Dorian Moro
Keyword(s):  
Wildlife Management ◽  
Threatened Species ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Migratory Species ◽  
Zoological Society ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Pteropus Poliocephalus ◽  
Flying Fox

ONCE again the Royal Zoological Society of NSW has collated a set of informative papers on a controversial wildlife management topic: how to manage the Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus as a threatened species in New South Wales. The management of this migratory species poses a complex set of problems to government, conservation agencies, and the horticultural industry given a recent decision to upgrade this species from "protected" to "threatened".

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