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Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (1): 47–51.
Published: 07 February 2023
... and Horsfield 1827) before and after the application of fenitrothion, an organophosphorous pesticide for locust control, in a semi-arid grassland in southwestern New South Wales and suggestions for further research Paul Story1 and Kimberly Maute2 1Australian Plague Locust Commission Department of Agriculture...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (3): 487–490.
Published: 27 October 2020
... attack livestock. This is the reality. Livestock predation has impacts that extend far beyond the animals that are attacked. It affects people. The basic tools for controlling dingoes are simple, traps, guns, fences and poison. Dingo control fails when these tools are not applied correctly, or one tool...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (3): 580–592.
Published: 09 March 2020
..., it was 21 years before Australia started the first comprehensive research trial into its efficacy in controlling the target species. The results of these tests that commenced in 1968 were an overwhelming failure. More tests in the 1970s had similar results, yet the broad-scale poisoning of pest species from...
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Australian Zoologist (2019) 40 (1): 129–139.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Justine Philip ABSTRACT This paper provides a chronological record of the history of poison in vertebrate species control in south-east Australia, since the first instance was recorded to target dingoes in 1814. Over this time, poison was employed first as a weapon against native wildlife...
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Australian Zoologist (2019) 40 (1): 181–202.
Published: 01 January 2019
... welfare, professional population control should increase not decrease. Landholders need to get involved in professional population control and regard kangaroos as assets not pests. If kangaroos were as valuable as wild goats or deer, landholders would have an incentive to co-produce kangaroos alongside...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (3): 432–442.
Published: 17 March 2014
.... This level of control effort reflects the importance of the dingo as a pest of the sheep industry. In the period between 1883 and 1930, over 280,000 bounties were paid for dingoes in New South Wales. A t the beginning of this period. dingoes appeared t o be distributed throughout New South Wales. By 1930...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (2): 363–368.
Published: 14 October 2011
... arrangement with a pulmonary artery, and a pulmonary vein that brings the oxygenated blood directly to the heart. The control systems regulating the blood flow in the dipnoan circulation are not well known. In most vertebrates, adrenergic systems - circulating catecholamines and adrenergic nerves...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 34 (3): 285–290.
Published: 14 October 2011
... a unique opportunity for investigation into its management and control. Three groups of ponds in Narawang Wetland were alternately drained in August/October each year between 2003 and 2005. Each year one pond-group was drained and left to dry for four weeks to reduce the population of Gambusia before...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2001
10.7882/FS.2001.006
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-2-7
... Dingo conservation and wild dog control have historically been seen as antagonistic. Pest animal management provisions in the new Rural Lands Protection Act 1998 will bind the crown and make it imperative that policies for agricultural protection and conservation address these historic...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2001
10.7882/FS.2001.007
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-2-7
... to or within wild dog-inhabited terrain, and this is the impetus for current policies on wild dog management. Baiting, with meat baits containing compound 1080, trapping and exclusion fencing are the major techniques used to control wild dogs. A strategic approach to the management of wild dogs, where...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2001
10.7882/FS.2001.012
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-2-7
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1999
10.7882/RZSNSW.1999.025
EISBN: 0-9586085-1-2
... A quality control procedure is described for biodiversity data compilations based on concepts of Statistical Processing Control (SPC). The technique, called process control sampling, involves continuous inspection of biological materials coupled with ongoing training. The describe d procedure...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (3): 560–568.
Published: 20 October 2011
...Paul Meek; Richard Hawksby; Athol Ardler; Matt Hudson; Kersten Tuckey Ground baiting was carried out in an operational pest control program between 1993 and 1995 aimed at eradicating Black rats Rattus rattus from Bowen Island in Jervis Bay. Rattus rattus was abundant across most of the Island...
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Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2007
10.7882/FS.2007.008
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-1-2
.... The Fire Ant Control Centre (FACC) was set up in Brisbane and the eradication program began in September 2001. This paper briefly summarises aspects of the biology of the ant, its impact and the impact of the eradication treatment on other fauna, together with additional information that has been gained...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 34 (2): 119–124.
Published: 10 October 2011
... within the town. The use of methods for dispersal, the removal of camp trees and public relations are discussed. Flying-fox pest control urban wildlife Pteropus alecto Brock, J. 2001. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed, Sydney. Native plants of northern Australia...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2001
10.7882/FS.2001.015
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-2-7
... The Rural Lands Protection Act 1998 , unlike its legislative predecessor, requires the Crown to control pest animals declared under the Act. It establishes conditions that must be met before animals can be classified as pests and before pest animal control obligations can be introduced...