Draft National Feral Camel Action Plan Executive summary

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ANNEX A

Draft National Feral Camel Action Plan

Executive summary

There are currently over one million camels in the rangelands of Australia and this population will double in the next 8-10 years. At this population level feral camels are having significant negative impacts across their extensive range and are expanding into new areas. The impacts are environmental, social, cultural and economic.

Management of camels across the rangelands is a complex issue that has two significant challenges:

the rapid reduction of the currently over-abundant feral camel population, and
building a legacy that will sustain on-going protection of assets and values of the rangelands.

In order to achieve significant reduction of the negative impacts of the camel population all governments, landowners and holders, communities and individuals will have to work together towards a common goal. That goal is:

Comprehensive, coordinated management of camels and their impacts that maintains and promotes the biodiversity, agricultural assets and social values of the rangelands for all Australians.

The national Feral Camel Action Plan has been developed to meet this need by providing a strategic and risk based approach upon which local, regional and state based management can be undertaken. The substantial number of stakeholders who will need to be involved in the implementation of the Action Plan may have some conflicting interests, especially when seeking to generate economic returns from removing camels from the landscape where markets to help do so are limited.

Aboriginal communities are concerned about religious as well as aesthetic, practical and physical dimensions of camel impacts. Attitudes to camels are not homogenous even within communities and many Aboriginal people value the potential they believe camels might provide for meaningful and productive activity.

The four key outcomes identified for this plan are the:

development of the Australian and international community’s understanding of and support for the management of feral camels and their impacts
amelioration of the negative impacts of feral camels by addressing the current over-abundance of feral camels through the immediate and substantial reduction in their numbers across the rangelands
adoption of a platform for the on-going long-term management of camels, and
development of partnerships and social capacities for camel management into the future.

Detailed actions are summarised on page 20 and detailed in the following section.

This Action Plan has been developed as a plan for an Existing Pest Animal of National Significance (EPANS) under the Australian Pest Animal Strategy (APAS). The Action Plan has been based on the APAS principles and will be implemented by the Feral Camel Working Group of the Vertebrate Pest Committee.

Section		Page
1	Vision	4
2	Challenge	4
2.1	Why a national plan	5
2.2	What are the impacts of feral camels?	6
2.3	Primary stakeholders	7
2.4	Secondary stakeholders	11
3	Key outcomes	12
4	Process to be followed	12
4.1	Draft plan endorsement	12
4.2	Public comment	12
4.3	Implementation	12
5	Background	13
5.1	Camel ecology and biology	13
5.2	History of spread	15
5.3	Annotated bibliography of camel related research in Australia	15
5.4	Control methods	16
5.5	Socio-economic factors affecting management	17
6	Action Plan	17
	Summary matrix	20
6.1	Goal 1 – The Australian public and international community understands and supports the management of feral camels	21
6.2	Goal 2 – The negative impacts of the overabundance of feral camels have been mitigated	28
6.3	Goal 3 – Adoption of platform for ongoing long-term management of camels	36
6.4	Goal 4 – Partnerships and social capacity for camel management are in place	40
	Appendices	45
A1	Camel management stakeholders	46
A2	Australian Pest Animal Strategy – key principles	48
A3	Feral camel control methods	49
	Consulted references	54

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Draft National Feral Camel Action Plan Executive summary

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