Posts Tagged ‘Northern Territory’
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Starling density 2007 – Northern Territory
Map shows the density of starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) in the Northern Territory, 2007. Compiled by the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre and the National Land and Water Resources Audit, in collaboration with the Australian, State and Territory governments. Click on the thumbnail image below to open the full map file.
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2007
Fox density 2007 – Northern Territory
Map shows the density of the European red fox (Vulpes vulpes) in the Northern Territory, 2007. Compiled by the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre and the National Land and Water Resources Audit, in collaboration with the Australian, State and Territory governments. Click on the thumbnail image below to open the full map file.
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2007
Feral goat density 2007 – Northern Territory
Map shows the density of the feral goat (Capra hircus) in the Northern Territory, 2007. Compiled by the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre and the National Land and Water Resources Audit, in collaboration with the Australian, State and Territory governments. Click on the thumbnail image below to open the full map file.
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2007
Rabbit density 2007 – Northern Territory
Map shows the density of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in the Northern Territory, 2007. Compiled by the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre and the National Land and Water Resources Audit, in collaboration with the Australian, State and Territory governments. Click on the thumbnail image below to open the full map file.
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2007
Cane toad density 2007 – Northern Territory
Map shows the density of cane toads (Bufo marinus) in the Northern Territory, 2007. Compiled by the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre and the National Land and Water Resources Audit, in collaboration with the Australian, State and Territory governments. Click on the thumbnail image below to open the full map file.
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2007
Carp density 2007 – Northern Territory
Map shows the density of European carp (Cyprinus carpio) in the Northern Territory, 2007. Compiled by the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre and the National Land and Water Resources Audit, in collaboration with the Australian, State and Territory governments. Click on the thumbnail image below to open the full map file.
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2007
Feral cat density 2007 – Northern Territory
Map shows the density of the feral cat (Felis catus) in the Northern Territory, 2007. Compiled by the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre and the National Land and Water Resources Audit, in collaboration with the Australian, State and Territory governments. Click on the thumbnail image below to open the full map file.
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2007
Wild deer density 2007 – Northern Territory
Map shows the density of wild deer (Cervus spp.) in the Northern Territory, 2007. Compiled by the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre and the National Land and Water Resources Audit, in collaboration with the Australian, State and Territory governments. Click on the thumbnail image below to open the full map file.
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2007
Wild dog density 2007 – Northern Territory
Map shows the density of wild dogs (Canis lupus) in the Northern Territory, 2007. Compiled by the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre and the National Land and Water Resources Audit, in collaboration with the Australian, State and Territory governments. Click on the thumbnail image below to open the full map file.
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2007
Feral pig density 2007 – Northern Territory
Map shows the density of the feral pig (Sus scrofa) in the Northern Territory, 2007. Compiled by the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre and the National Land and Water Resources Audit, in collaboration with the Australian, State and Territory governments. Click on the thumbnail image below to open the full map file.
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2007
CaneToadsInOz.com
Cane Toads!! Just hearing those words creates fear and loathing in many Australians. These feral amphibians have become a major invasive threat to Australian biodiversity since their introduction in North Queensland. Reports that these poisonous amphibians have invaded the Northern Territory and are heading for Western Australia fuel this national sense of fear and loathing. [...]
Website
2008
Wild Dog (Canis lupus familiaris, Canis lupus dingo and hybrids)
The term ?wild dog? applies to two sub-species of canid; the dingo (Canis lupus dingo) and the feral domestic dog (C. l. familiaris) and hybrids of the two (Fleming et al. 2001). Dingoes have inhabited Australia for about 4000 years, long enough to become a functional part of the natural ecological system as a top [...]
Fact Sheet
2007
European Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)
Rabbits are recognised as Australia?s worst vertebrate pest (Williams et al. 1995). They have occurred in the more arid parts of the Northern Territory for more than a century, where they cause economic losses to pastoral production and significant environmental damage through habitat modification and direct competition with native fauna for food and shelter (Edwards [...]
Fact Sheet
2007
Water Buffalo (Bubalis bubalis)
Buffalo are a large ruminant herbivore weighing between 450-1200 kg. They occur in floodplain, woodland and sandstone escarpment habitats in areas where surface water is available. The range of buffaloes in the NT is restricted mainly to areas that receive greater than 1000 mm of rainfall annually (Freeland and Boulton 1990).
Fact Sheet
2007
Feral Cat (felis catus)
Feral cats are a serious treat to biodiversity conservation in Australia. Predation by feral cats is appropriately listed as a key threatening process under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. Feral cats occur across the Northern Territory and occupy all available habitats.
Fact Sheet
2007
Arabian Camel (camelus dromedarius)
Feral camels are an emerging environmental and agricultural pest. Feral camels occur over 37% of the Australian mainland, being confined primarily to the drier parts of Western Australia, South Austrlia and the Northern Territory. There are currently in excess of 300,000 feral camels and the population is doubling in size every eight years.
Fact Sheet
2007
Goats (Capra hircus)
Feral goats occur in all states and territories except on the mainland of the Northern Territory. The main concentrations are in western New South Wales, southern Queensland, central eastern South Australia and Western Australia. Feral goats occur in a wide range of habitats but are not very successful where dingoes are present. In the Endangered [...]
Fact Sheet
2007
Cane Toads
Toad busting activities and information on how to identify a cane toad. Also includes: Guide to Saving Our Suburbs; Cane toads: the facts; Making your yard a toad-free zone; Building a frog pond; Cane toad calling; Island arks overview.
Website
2007
Models for the Control of Feral Water Buffalo (Bubalus Bubalis) Using Constant Levels of Offtake and Effort
A model of population growth of feral water buffalo is presented and used as a basis for simulating buffalo control exercises. Simulations incorporated annual removal of constant numbers of buffalo, annual allocations of constant amounts of control effort, or continous application of effort until control density had been achieved. The models rely on data from [...]
Journal Article
1991
Distribution and Abundance of Feral Liverstock in the ‘Top End’ of the Northern Territory (1985-86), and Their Relation to Population Control
Feral and domestic livestock (buffalo, cattle, horses and donkeys) were censused by fixed-wing aerial survey over the ‘Top End’ of the Northern Territory (above the 16th parallel) in March-April 1985, encompassing 223 672 km2 (16.7% of the Territory). The mean sampling rate on the major coastal lowland (38 281 km2) was 7.3%, and that for [...]
Journal Article
1989
A preliminary risk assessment of cane toads in Kakadu National Park
Cane toads (Bufo marinus) entered the Northern Territory (NT) in 1980 from Queensland and are rapidly approaching Kakadu National Park (KNP), having recently been reported in the upper Mann River and Snowdrop Creek, approximately 15–30 km to the east of Kakadu National Park. Concern about the invasion of cane toads in Kakadu National Park has [...]
Report
2002
Factors affecting the success rate of traps for catching feral pigs in a tropical habitat
Factors affecting the success rate of traps for catching feral pigs inhabiting a tropical habitat in the Northern Territory, Australia, were identified by constructing a generalised linear model relating capture rates of pigs to environmental variables. Capture rates were influenced most significantly by time of year, being highest during the late dry season and lowest [...]
Journal Article
1994
Contested Realities: Feral Horses in Outback Australia
Prior to 1980, feral horse numbers in the Northern Territory of Australia were thought to be low, between 40,000 and 60,000. Based on research done by an American geographer, these estimates should have been critically scrutinized by Australian scientists. They were, however, accepted uncritically. Then in the early 1980s, helicopter censuses showed that the feral [...]
Journal Article
1994
A survey of mycobacteriosis of feral pigs in the Northern Territory
Seven hundred and fifty-one feral pigs from the subcoastal plains of the Northern Territory were examined. The sample population consisted of 52.4% females and 47.6% males. They ranged in age from newborn piglets to mature animals of over 72 months. Of the pigs examined 47.7% had macroscopic abscesses and of these 80.2% were probably caused [...]
Journal Article
1981
Predator-prey theory and feral pig control, with emphasis on evaluation of shooting from a helicopter
Models of predator-prey relationships were examined to evaluate shooting of feral pigs from a helicopter. The study site was the floodplains and surrounding woodlands of the Mary and Adelaide Rivers in the Northern Territory. The estimated kill of feral pigs was 79%. Models from predator-prey theory were fitted to the kill data and accounted for [...]
Journal Article
1990
Feral pig (Sus scrofa) rooting in a monsoon forest-wetland transition, Northern Australia
A grid of 447 cells (each 50 x 50 m) was centred on a wet monsoon forest on a gradual slope above the Adelaide River floodplain in the Northern Territory of Australia. Quarter-yearly surveys of pig rooting revealed that there was limited impact within the monsoon rainforest in both the wet and dry seasons. The [...]
Journal Article
1991
Does dingo predation or buffalo competition regulate feral pig populations in the Australian wet-dry tropics? An experimental study
Dingo (Canis familiaris dingo) predation on feral pigs (Sus scrofa) in response to experimental changes in prey populations was measured over seven years in the seasonally wet-dry tropics of northern Australia. Following the removal of feral swamp buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) from half of the 614 km2 study area, the number of pigs doubled and there [...]
Journal Article
1995
Potential cane toad short to medium term control techniques : the biological feasibility and cost of exclusion as a mitigating control strategy
Invasive cane toads Bufo marinus are spreading rapidly across northern Australia, raising serious public and scientific concerns for the long-term persistence of many potentially vulnerable wildlife populations. A number of mitigating solutions to the cane toad problem have been proposed, including direct killing of toads, biological control, or the establishment of secure areas from which [...]
Report
2004
Hunting and harvesting in the Northern Territory
Harvesting for subsistence is widespread amongst Aboriginal communities across the Northern Territory. Changes have occurred to the way hunting occurs with western foods becoming more prominent in the diet of Aboriginal people. Reliable data on Aboriginal harvesting has only recently become available. Hunting by non-Aboriginals is mainly focused on Magpie Geese. This hunting is closely [...]
Fact Sheet
2005
A successful unsuccessful feral animal management program
In June 1999 the then Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory (PWCNT) declared a “Pest Control Area” covering most of the Victoria River District (VRD), at which time the projected donkey and horse populations were estimated at 93,000 and 63,000 respectively. Control notices requiring the removal of specified numbers of donkeys and horses [...]
Conference or Workshop Proceedings
2005
The red fox – Vulpes vulpes
Foxes are a serious treat to biodiversity conservation in Australia. Predation by foxes is appropriately listed as a key threatening process under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. In the Northern Territory, foxes are largely confined to the more arid areas but appear to be expanding their range in a northerly direction. Foxes [...]
Fact Sheet
2003
Caring for Country: Feral Animal Management
A range of feral animals including large vertebrates, cane toads, insects and fish species have established themselves on aboriginal land over the past century. Although aboriginal land owners and managers are concerned about the environmental damage caused by feral animals, the situation is often more complex than that for weeds as a number of feral [...]
Fact Sheet
2003
The diets of cats, foxes and dingoes in relation to prey availability in the Tanami Desert, Northern Territory
In most areas of Australia, mammals constitute the staple diets of cats, foxes and dingoes. In central Australia the abundance of mammals is often too low to meet the dietary requirements of these carnivores and yet populations of cats, foxes and dingoes persist. To investigate alternative feeding strategies of cats, foxes and dingoes in arid [...]
Journal Article
2002
Field evaluation of four 1080 baits for dingo control
Three trials were conducted to compare the effectiveness of four 1080 dingo baits (two non-refined meat baits and two highly processed manufactured baits) in reducing dingo activity in the Northern Territory. Baits were laid at water points and dingo activity was estimated from track counts along a circular path cleared around each water point before [...]
Journal Article
2000
The short-term effect of cane toads (Bufo marinus) on native fauna in the Gulf Country of the Northern Territory
The range of the cane toad has expanded rapidly in the Northern Territory, and there is growing concern that the species may have a detrimental effect on the native fauna. The aim of this study, therefore, was to determine the short-term effects of cane toads on populations of native fauna and, specifically, to compare the [...]
Journal Article
1999
The longevity and efficacy of 1080 meat baits used for dingo control in central Australia
In central Australia, most 1080 (sodium monofluoroacetate) meat baits placed on soil in predator-proof cages remained toxic to dingoes, foxes and feral cats for at least 8 months regardless of whether they were protected from rain or not. Thus, untaken baits will remain a potential hazard to non-target species, particularly farm dogs, for a considerable [...]
Journal Article
2000
The population dynamics of a tropical possum, Trichosurus vulpecula arnhemensis Collett
The population ecology of Trichosurus vulpecula has been studied extensively in temperate Australia and in New Zealand. This paper provides the results of a trapping study of a population of the northern brushtail possum (T. vulpecula arnhemensis Collett 1897) in the wet–dry tropics of Australia’s Northern Territory. Possums were readily trapped and the population had [...]
Journal Article
1998
The conservation status of rodents in the monsoonal tropics of the Northern Territory
The rodent fauna of the monsoonal tropics of the Northern Territory comprises 23 native species and two introduced species. Three species (Zyzomys maini, Z. palatalis and Pseudomys calabyi) are endemic to the area, and four species (Pseudomys hermannsburgensis, P. desertor, P. johnsoni and Notomys alexis) enter the area only on its southern (arid) fringe. The [...]
Journal Article
2000
Population trends in European rabbits and other wildlife of central Australia in the wake of rabbit haemorrhagic disease
Before the establishment of rabbit haemorrhagic disease (RHD) in central Australia in May 1996, a program was instituted to monitor its impacts at six localities broadly distributed across the region. At these sites, population trends in rabbits and other wildlife were studied over a 2.5-year period. Rabbit populations declined by approximately 85% following establishment of [...]
Journal Article
2002
An evaluation of two methods of assessing feral cat and dingo abundance in central Australia
We evaluated the efficacy of spotlight surveys and passive track surveys conducted along roads for assessing the relative abundance of feral cats and dingoes in a semi-arid rangeland environment in central Australia. Track surveys were more time-efficient than spotlight surveys and offered higher precision. We cover a range of issues that need to be considered [...]
Journal Article
2000
Movements, Activity Patterns and Habitat Use of Feral Pigs (Sus scrofa) in a Tropical Habitat
Movements, activity patterns and habitat use of feral pigs were studied in a tropical woodland habitat by radio-telemetry, live-trapping and hunter returns. The mean aggregate home-range size was 33.5 km2 for boars and 24.1 km2 for sows. Feral pigs were rather sedentary, with no tendency to disperse great distances from their initial home ranges. Pigs [...]
Journal Article
1997
Field Evaluation of Olfactory Lures for Feral Cats (Felis catus L.) in Central Australia
Field trials were conducted in central Australia to evaluate the ability of various olfactory lures to attract feral cats (Felis catus L.). Ten food-based lures, one plant extract and two scent-based lures (anal-gland preparations from male and female cats) were evaluated on the basis of visitation rates and elicited behavioural responses. A visual lure composed [...]
Journal Article
1997
Movement patterns of female feral camels in central and northern Australia
Movement patterns of female feral camels were studied over four years (February 1993 to December 1996) in central and northern Australia using satellite telemetry. Areas used over 12-month periods (calculated using the fixed kernel method) were large (449–4933 km2) and increased with increasing aridity as measured by long-term mean annual rainfall. No consistent pattern of [...]
Journal Article
2001
Population trend of feral camels in the Northern Territory, Australia
We conducted a broad-scale aerial survey between 20 August and 12 October 2001 to ascertain the distribution and abundance of feral camels in the southern part of the Northern Territory. There was a minimum of 80 533 feral camels in the Northern Territory at the time of the survey. This figure is corrected for perception [...]
Journal Article
2004
Diet of the Feral Cat (Felis catus) in Central Australia
Feral cats (Felis catus) occur throughout central Australia. In this study, we analysed the stomach contents of 390 feral cats collected between 1990 and 1994 from the southern half of the Northern Territory. Cats fed on a wide variety of invertebrates, reptiles, birds and mammals, including animals up to their own body mass in size. [...]
Journal Article
1997
Kakadu National Park Plan of Management
The Plan of Management is presented in two parts. The first part is a ‘Description of Kakadu National Park’. This provides background to the establishment of the park and the joint management arrangement with Aboriginal traditional owners, the role of the Plan of Management and information on the importance of Kakadu to different people. This [...]
Threat Abatement Plan or Management Strategy
1998
SOIL CONSERVATION AND LAND UTILIZATION ACT
An Act to make provision for the prevention of soil erosion and for the conservation and reclamation of soil.
Legislation
Rabbit Control in Central Australia
To demonstrate the practicality of eradicating rabbits from extensive management units (pastoral leases) by warren ripping and follow-up fumigation. To quantify the economic returns arising from greater management opportunities which will result from removal of rabbits. To show through soil reclamation measures (pitting, ponding banks) and pasture regeneration (sowing perennial grasses) how to stabilise soils [...]
Project
1991
Integrated Rabbit Control in Central Australia
Rabbit control is a big issue in central Australia. Rabbits are a serious economic and environmental concern. Developing a control strategy is essential. The Centralian Land Management Association (CLMA) has devised an innovative program which takes an integrated approach to the problem. Seasonal influences on the biology and activity of rabbits are fully considered to [...]
Fact Sheet
1998
A strategy for conservation through the sustainable use of wildlife in the Northern Territory of Australia
The goal of this strategy is to enhance to conservation of Northern Territory plants and animals through the development of programs incorporating their sustainable use. To acheive the goal, six objectives are defined that fall into five broad areas- management programs, information, aboriginal use, co-operative management, and public awareness and accoutability. Various actions are identified [...]
Policy Document
1997
BIOLOGICAL CONTROL ACT
An Act to make provision for the biological control and eradication of pests in the Northern Territory, and for related purposes
Legislation
1986
EXOTIC DISEASES (ANIMALS) COMPENSATION ACT
Prohibits the introduction of certain species of exotic animals and compensates those who suffer a loss caused by disease spread as a result of such illegal introduction.
Legislation
1958
HERITAGE CONSERVATION ACT
The principal object of this Act is to provide a system for the identification, assessment, recording, conservation and protection of places and objects of prehistoric, protohistoric, historic, social, aesthetic or scientific value, including geological structures, fossils, archaeological sites, ruins, buildings, gardens, landscapes, coastlines and plant and animal communities or ecosystems of the Territory.
Legislation
1991
TERRITORY PARKS AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ACT
Provides for the declaration of land, including the sea above any part of the sea bed of the Territory, to be a sanctuary, park reserve or protected area by the Administrator. The whole or part of a park or reserve may be declared a wilderness zone. The Act also provides for the protection of animals [...]
Legislation
1977
PASTORAL LAND ACT
Makes provision for the allocation, administration, management and conservation of pastoral land. Includes specific provisions relating to land management, access land and the provision of community living areas. Provides for the licensing of certain land uses and activities such as supply of services, harvesting of timber, extraction of sand and stone, etc
Legislation
2007
Parks and Wildlife Commission Act
The Parks and Wildlife Commission Act (NT) is an Act to establish a Commission to establish and manage, or assist in the management of, parks, reserves, sanctuaries and other land, to encourage the protection, conservation and sustainable use of wildlife, to establish a land-holding corporation in connection with those purposes, and for related purposes.
Legislation
1980
NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION COUNCIL (NORTHERN TERRITORY) ACT
NT’s part in the co-operative legislative scheme to establish the National Environment Protection Council and implement the Intergovernmental Agreement on the Environment.
Legislation
1994
The short-term effect of cane toads(Bufo marinus) on native fauna in the Gulf Country of the Northern Territory
The range of the cane toad has expanded rapidly in the Northern Territory, and there is growing concern that the species may have a detrimental effect on the native fauna. The aim of this study, therefore, was to determine the short-term effects of cane toads on populations of native fauna and, specifically, to compare the [...]
Journal Article
1999