Australian Feral Camel Management Project
Read the project’s Final Report (pdf 3.3MB) and Overview (pdf 2.4MB)
Background
The Australian Feral Camel Management Project (AFCMP) was a $19 million national program addressing the urgent need to significantly reduce feral camel densities to lessen their impacts in remote Australia on biodiversity, wetlands, waterholes and sites of cultural value to Aboriginal people, infrastructure and personal safety.
This project was one of the largest and most diverse nationwide collaborations ever to target an established pest species in Australia.
It brought together twenty partners, including State and Territory governments (SA, WA, Qld, NT), Aboriginal organisations across the four jurisdictions, Natural Resource Management boards, conservation groups, the pastoral industry and commercial interests to protect identified refuges for biodiversity that were under threat from feral camels.
The project was guided by the extensive information collated in the reports of the Desert Knowledge CRC research project into feral camel impacts and management.
The project was set up to reduce the feral camel densities at priority biodiversity areas.
Since a four-year agreement between Ninti One and the Australian Government’s Caring for Our Country program was signed in February 2010, the AFCMP made substantial progress based on an early realisation of the need for comprehensive collaboration processes due to the diverse range of land tenures (Aboriginal, conservation estate, pastoral and Crown) across which feral camels roam and the diverse stakeholder interests, including commercial use.
Project partners
- Alinytjara Wilurara NRM Board (South Australia)
- Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands (APY Lands)
- Australian Wildlife Conservancy
- Biosecurity SA
- Central Land Council
- CSIRO
- Department of Agriculture and Food (WA Government)
- Department of Environment and Conservation (WA Government)
- Department of Environment and Natural Resources (SA Government)
- Department of Environment and Resource Management (Qld Government)
- Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport (NT Government)
- Flinders University
- Kimberley Land Council
- Natural Resource Management Board NT Inc
- Ngaanyatjarra Council Inc
- Ninti One Ltd
- NT Cattlemen’s Association
- Rangelands (NRM WA)
- South Australian Arid Lands NRM Board
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| Managing the impacts of feral camel across remote Australia:
Final report of the Australian Feral Camel Management Project |
Managing the impacts of feral camel across remote Australia:
Overview of the Australian Feral Camel Management Project |
Australian Feral Camel Management Project 2013 |