LAND MANAGEMENT PEST ANIMALS & WEEDS Eddie Madsen Animal - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

LAND MANAGEMENT PEST ANIMALS & WEEDS Eddie Madsen – Animal Management Worker WWASC

• Wujal Wujal – water fall • Eastern - Kuku Yalinji (Wujal Warra) people People and culture

• Boundary of Wet Tropics and Cape York • Between Cooktown and Cape Tribulation • Tropical climate – wet summers/dry winters • 2 ½ metres rain per year Wujal Wujal QLD Australia

• pioneers- tin miners, cedar getters • Settled around 1880 • Farming- coffee, sugar, tea, pineapple, cattle • Bloomfield River Mission • 1980 Aboriginal Council • 2004 Aboriginal Shire Council 2004 European history

European history

Natural Asset Management • Land management • Pest animals and weeds

Land management Community and partnerships

Land management Fire management

Land management Grazing and past land use

Land management Straying stock

Land management Uncontrolled dumping

Land management Corridors and easements

Land management Disturbed areas

Weed control

Weed control Weed spraying

Weed control Networking & partnerships

Weed control Making progress

Weed control Making progress

Weed control Follow up

Animal management

Animal management Roaming dogs (2008)

Animal management Roaming dogs

Animal management • Vet visits every 4 months • Adopting local laws for animal management • Registration and micro-chipping Roaming dogs (2010)

Animal management Unwanted horses

Animal management • Use lessons from the dog management program • Consulting community (door to door) Unwanted horses

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