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Kangaroo populations, monitoring & harvesting

Table of Contents
  1. The Australian kangaroo industry: male only harvesting, sustainability and an assessment of animal welfare impacts
  2. The perils of being populous: Control and conservation of Abundant Kangaroo Species
  3. Commercial and Sustainable Use of Wildlife
  4. The numerical response: rate of increase and food limitation in herbivores and predators
  5. Do harvest refuges buffer kangaroos against evolutionary responses to selective harvesting?
  6. Improving the humaneness of commercial kangaroo harvesting
  7. Harvest Management of Kangaroos During Drought
  8. Kangaroo Genetics: Impacts of Harvesting
  9. Kangaroo Industry Wild Game Training Initiative
  10. A model for assessing the relative humaneness of pest animal control methods
  11. Predicting the distribution of Eastern Grey Kangaroos by remote sensing assessment of food resources
  12. A history of the debate (1948-2009) on the commercial harvesting of kangaroos, with particular reference to New South Wales and the role of Gordon Grigg
  13. Conservation benefit from harvesting kangaroos: status report at the start of a new millennium: A paper to stimulate discussion and research
  14. Commercial kangaroo harvesters handbook NSW
  15. Commercial kangaroo harvesting fact sheet
  16. Monitoring Kangaroo Populations in Southeastern New South Wales
  17. An overview of the Queensland macropod monitoring programme
  18. Repeatability of aerial surveys
  19. Potential Use of Radiometric Data for Wildlife Habitat Modelling
  20. The effect of non-sex biased shooting on some population characteristics of the Eastern Grey Kangaroo in the Murrurundi area, New South Wales
  21. Subsidized Commercial Harvesting for cost-effective wildlife management in urban areas: a case study with kangaroo sharpshooting
  22. Of sheep and rain: large-scale population dynamics of the red kangaroo
  23. Should managed populations be monitored every year?
  24. Stochastic demography and population dynamics in the Red Kangaroo (Macropus Rufus)
  25. Using spatio-temporal modelling as a decision support tool for management of a native pest herbivore
  26. Accuracy and consistency in the aerial survey of kangaroos
  27. Accounting for animal density gradients using independent information in distance sampling surveys
  28. Using kangaroo surveys to monitor biodiversity
  29. Fertility control in female eastern grey kangaroos using the GnRH agonist deslorelin.2. Effects on behaviour
  30. Population monitoring for kangaroo management
  31. Fertility control in female eastern grey kangaroos using the GnRH agonist deslorelin. 2. Effects on behaviour
  32. An assessment of the accuracy of kangaroo surveys using fixed-wing aircraft

The Australian kangaroo industry: male only harvesting, sustainability and an assessment of animal welfare impacts

(McLeod & Sharp, 2020)

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The perils of being populous: Control and conservation of Abundant Kangaroo Species

(Croft & Witte, 2021)

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Commercial and Sustainable Use of Wildlife

(Cooney, R 2008)

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The numerical response: rate of increase and food limitation in herbivores and predators

(Bayliss & Choquenot, 2002)

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Do harvest refuges buffer kangaroos against evolutionary responses to selective harvesting?

(Tenhumberg, Tyre, Pople, & Possingham, 2004)

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Improving the humaneness of commercial kangaroo harvesting

McLeod, Steven R & Sharp, Trudy MRIRDC Publication No. 13/116 (June 2014)

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Harvest Management of Kangaroos During Drought

(Pople A. R., 2003)

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This NSW report addresses concerns of overharvesting of kangaroos during  drought. A simulation model was used to assess the risk of overharvest during drough and assessed the potential indicators and thresholds for population decline and overharvesting.

Kangaroo Genetics: Impacts of Harvesting

(Hale)

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This research addressed concerns about the effect of harvesting on the genetics of kangaroo species and found that the effects of commercial harvesting were unlikely to produce genetic changes in the population.

Kangaroo Industry Wild Game Training Initiative

(Mawson, 2011)RIRDC Publication No. 11/123 (2011)

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A model for assessing the relative humaneness of pest animal control methods

(Sharp & Saunders, 2011)

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Predicting the distribution of Eastern Grey Kangaroos by remote sensing assessment of food resources

(Rollings & Moss, 2016)

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A history of the debate (1948-2009) on the commercial harvesting of kangaroos, with particular reference to New South Wales and the role of Gordon Grigg

(Lunney, 2010)

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Conservation benefit from harvesting kangaroos: status report at the start of a new millennium: A paper to stimulate discussion and research

(Grigg, 2002)

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This paper explores the view that the best way to reduce grazing pressure in Australia’s rangelands is by reducing sheep through increasing the value of kangaroo production.  This would harness economic incentives in the service of ecological sustainability and rangeland rehabilitation and achieve conservation goals through the sustainable use of wildlife. Grigg advocates a strong marketing effort and provides some suggestions about the benefits of kangaroo harvesting which could feature in a marketing campaign.

Commercial kangaroo harvesters handbook NSW

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NSW Government prepared this handbook to help kangaroo harvesters meet NSW requirements for the commercial kangaroo industry.  It contains general information about the commercial kangaroo industry and serves as a guide for applying for licences and tags, harvesting kangaroos in filling in returns.

Commercial kangaroo harvesting fact sheet

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Provided by the Australian Government, this outlines the basics of kangaroo harvesting in Australia and the roles and responsibilities of state and federal governments.

Monitoring Kangaroo Populations in Southeastern New South Wales

(Pople, Cairns, & Menke, Monitoring Kangaroo Populations in Southeastern New South Wales, 2003)

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An overview of the Queensland macropod monitoring programme

(Lundie-Jenkins, Hoolihan, & Maag, 1999)

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Repeatability of aerial surveys

(Pople A. R., Repeatability of aerial surveys, 1999)

View Document

Potential Use of Radiometric Data for Wildlife Habitat Modelling

(Pert & Norton, 2010)

View Document

The effect of non-sex biased shooting on some population characteristics of the Eastern Grey Kangaroo in the Murrurundi area, New South Wales

(Shelly, 1997)

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Subsidized Commercial Harvesting for cost-effective wildlife management in urban areas: a case study with kangaroo sharpshooting

(Mawson, O’Hampton, & Dooley, 2016)

View Document

Of sheep and rain: large-scale population dynamics of the red kangaroo

(Jonzen, Pople, Grigg, & Possingham, 2005)

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Should managed populations be monitored every year?

(Hauser, Pople, & Possingham, 2006)

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Stochastic demography and population dynamics in the Red Kangaroo (Macropus Rufus)

(Jonzen N. , Pople, Knape, & Skold, 2010)

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Using spatio-temporal modelling as a decision support tool for management of a native pest herbivore

(Wiggins, Penny, Bowman, Collier, & McMahon, 2014)

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Accuracy and consistency in the aerial survey of kangaroos

(Cairns, 1999)

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This paper investigates the accuracy, bias and consistency of the methods for estimating kangaroo populations and the need to review correction factors.

Accounting for animal density gradients using independent information in distance sampling surveys

(Marques, Buckland, Bispo, & Howland, 2012)

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Using kangaroo surveys to monitor biodiversity

(Lundie-Jenkins, Pople, & Hoolihan)

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Fertility control in female eastern grey kangaroos using the GnRH agonist deslorelin.2. Effects on behaviour

(Woodward, Herberstein, & Herbert, 2006)

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Population monitoring for kangaroo management

(Pople A. R., 2004)

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Fertility control in female eastern grey kangaroos using the GnRH agonist deslorelin. 2. Effects on behaviour

(Woodward, Herberstein, & Herbert, 2006)

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An assessment of the accuracy of kangaroo surveys using fixed-wing aircraft

(Pople, Cairns, Clancy, Grigg, Beard & Southwell, 1998)

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Literature Themes

Optimum Management of Overabundant Macropods

Road mortality

Marketing kangaroo products

Social licence, humaneness and opposition to harvesting and management

Kangaroo populations, monitoring and harvesting

Kangaroo ecology and ecological impacts

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