Uptake of Products and Strategies

A key objective in achieving this innovation is the direct engagement of local communities through demonstration sites, which showcase new ways of looking at cross-tenure and cross-discipline pest animal control techniques.

This proactive approach is a key element in our innovation chain that brings together a mix of stakeholders and we expect it to open up markets across Australasia and beyond for delivery of new products and services. For example, a new IA CRC feral pig bait developed for the Australian market has potential markets in NZ, Pacific Islands, UK and the USA. Not only could this develop a new export industry for Australia, it will also make large-scale manufacturing and supply to Australian producers a more viable enterprise and will offer the potential in the long-term for self-sustaining projects and technical support funded from local and export sales.

Demonstration sites

Demonstration sites are a key component of IA CRC research development and implementation. Sites include:

• Western Australia: Introduced predator control and sustained fauna recovery in south-west WA
• South Australia: ‘Repel the Invaders’: a management program for deer, pigs, goats and cats on Kangaroo Island
• Tasmania: Detecting Foxes
• Victoria: ‘Southern Ark’: benefiting the biodiversity of East Gippsland through fox control
• Queensland: Controlling feral pigs in tropical rainforest
• Australian Capital Territory: Engaging community interest in the impacts of invasive animals
• New South Wales / Queensland: wild canids management

Note that demonstration sites related to pest fish are managed by the Freshwater Products and Strategies Program. They include:

• Queensland: Albert-Logan catchment
• New South Wales: Lachlan catchment
• Tasmania: Lakes Sorell and Cresent

Specific research projects associated with the Uptake Program:

• New feral pig toxins, baits and delivery systems
• Molecular ecology of wild canids in Australia
• Bluehealer antidote®
• Human dimensions of invasive animal management
• Community awareness projects (ValueMetrics Australia)
• Commercialisation management: IA offshore and intellectual property management

Program newsletter:

The ‘Uptake Update’ newsletter is a regular series aiming to keep all stakeholders informed on project progress within this program.   Each new issue features a different demonstration site or specific aspect of the program.  Please email Keryn Lapidge if you would like to be added to the distribution list for future newsletters.

2009:

• Uptake Update, July 2009: Molecular ecology of wild canids.
• Uptake Update, August 2009: KI Demonstration site – world’s largest island goat eradication program.
• Uptake Update, November 2009: TAS demonstration site – detecting foxes in Tasmania.
• Uptake Update, December 2009: WA demonstration site – introduced predator control & sustained fauna recovery.

2007/2008:

• Uptake Update No1, March 2007: 10.U.1 Western Australian ‘Western Shield’ demonstration site.
• Uptake Update No2, May 2007: 10.U.2 Kangaroo Island demonstration site.
• Uptake Update No3, June 2007: 10.U.3 Tasmanian demonstration site.
• Uptake Update No4, July 2007: 10.U.8 Queensland carp demonstration site.
• Uptake Update No5, August 2007: 10.U.9 New South Wales carp demonstration site.
• Uptake Update No6, September 2007: 10.U.4 Victorian demonstration site ‘Southern Ark’.
• Uptake Update No7, October 2007: 10.U.5 New South Wales wild dog demonstration site.
• Uptake Update No8, November 2007: 10.U.6 Queensland Daintree demonstration site.
• Uptake Update No9, December 2007: 10.U.14 Commercialisation and IA CRC offshore activities.
• Uptake Update No10, March 2008: 2.U.1 Feral pig control solutions.