Reducing feral camel impacts across remote Australia:

Australian Feral Camel Management Project

21st November 2013, Parliament House Theatre, Canberra

Session One: From Science to Solution Speakers: Tom Calma, AO – Chair Ninti One Glenn Edwards – Northern Territory Government Quentin Hart – Ninti One, Australian Feral Camel Management Project Roger Smith – Chair Australian Feral Camel Management Project Steering Committee

Ninti One and its involvement in the AFCMP

Dr Tom Calma, AO Chair, Ninti One and CRC-REP

Ninti One

Ninti One

Vision Resilient remote communities and businesses that enrich Australia through their vigour, cultural integrity, ability to innovate and sustainable use of resources

Our Expertise • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural knowledge and its uses • Enterprise development and entrepreneurialism • Function and sustainability of communities • Governance in remote regions • IP management • Natural resource management and land issues • Remote Education • Remote service delivery • Remote tourism • Partnerships and ways to add value through them • Social and economic systems.

Involvement in the feral camel issue 2005-2008

• Desert Knowledge CRC project • Aimed to develop national management framework to reverse

population growth and resultant impacts • The resultant research project provided the information base to guide

future management

DKCRC 2008 report • The 2008 DKCRC feral camel report provided the Australian

Government with the evidence to establish a long-term density target for feral camels: <0.1 per sq km

The AFCMP • The AFCMP was established as the first step in achieving the <0.1

density target a nominated biodiversity refuges

• Project funded in 2010 over 4 years

• Partnership led by Ninti One involved 20 organisations.

The AFCMP • Ninti One established a comprehensive governance structure and sub-

contracted parts of the project to government agencies, NGOs and commercial enterprises.

• Ninti One staff and Steering Committee Chair brought extensive experience in NRM, industry development, landholder liaison and pest animal management.

The AFCMP • Ninti One was able to draw on its Aboriginal Community Researcher

network to survey Aboriginal communities about their views. • Project created training and employment opportunities in remote

Aboriginal communities.

The future • Valuable collaborations established and enhanced through AFCMP –

will benefit ongoing large feral herbivore management and other NRM • Ninti One will seek to support these collaborations to see if they can be

applied to a range of landscape-level challenges into the future

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