Goal 8: Reducing expanding and other pest species impacts

TARGET: Deliver improved and humane approaches to reduce the production and biodiversity impacts of expanding or other overabundant and widespread pest species.

Outputs

• Leadership role in implementing welfare based invasive animal control practices
• A better understanding of the social impacts of animal invasions
• Management recommendations to reduce the impacts of Australia’s pest birds
• Management packages for improved herbivore management

Projects

• Codes of practice and standard operating procedures for humane pest animal control (5.T.5e, 9.D.7e)
• PhD: social implications of invasive animal management. Case study: deer (Adriana Ford)
• Improving the management of Australia’s pest birds (9.T.2, 9.D.3)
  • PhD: Evaluating management strategies for pest birds of horticulture (John Tracey)
• PhD: community management of Indian Mynas (Kate Grarock)
• PhD: ecology behaviour and physiology of the highly invasive lizard, Lamphropholis delicata (Scott van Barneveld)
• Oral delivery systems for herbivore management (9.T.1)
  • PhD: effects of GonaCon® vaccination on the behaviour and fertility of macropods (Melissa Snape)
• PhD: GnRH constructs for oral delivery (using ContraPest®): affects of immune responses and reproductive function (Ian McDonald)

Relevant projects included under other goals

• Socio-economic costs of invasive animals (12.D.6)
• Community Awareness Surveys (10.D.12)
• Public attitudes to invasive animals and their impacts (12.D.5)
• Public attitudes to pest animal management and control (12.D.8)
• PhD: Social aspects of feral pig management (Carla Meurk)