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Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (2): 160–165.
Published: 14 October 2011
...A. Pople; S. Cairns; S. McLeod Wildlife harvesting has a long history in Australia, including obvious examples of overexploitation. Not surprisingly, there is scepticism that commercial harvesting can be undertaken sustainably. Kangaroo harvesting has been challenged regularly at Administrative...
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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2012
10.7882/FS.2012.051
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-8-1
... A recent publication from the Think Tank for Kangaroos (THINKK) in the Institute of Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney evaluates the idea that eating wild harvested kangaroo meat is environmentally beneficial, compared to other meats produced on rangelands (Ben-Ami et al...
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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2002
10.7882/FS.2002.004
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-3-4
... Over the last twenty years, kangaroo harvesting has gained much greater public acceptance and risen in monetary value. However, most landholders still regard kangaroos mainly as pests, and are a long way from making enough money from kangaroos to encourage any shift away from their focus...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 33 (3): 398–409.
Published: 17 March 2014
...Peter Ampt; Alex Baumber The role of landholders in kangaroo harvesting is an issue that has been revisited often over time as circumstances continue to change within the kangaroo industry, within rural communities and within national and international conservation frameworks. It is again time...
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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2002
10.7882/FS.2002.015
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-3-4
... justifiable to kill wild animals, not for survival, but in order to profit from their meat and skins”. Supporters of kangaroo harvesting must engage with this argument if there is to be any meeting point for debate with Singer and the animal liberation cause. The central proposition put by Archer, Grigg...
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Australian Zoologist (2019) 40 (1): 181–202.
Published: 01 January 2019
... with their conventional livestock. The kangaroo harvesting industry is declining and has been ineffective in reducing populations, partly due to animal rights campaigns. In recent years less than half the annual quota has been taken, and is currently only 20 %. Consequently, graziers are erecting kangaroo-proof fences...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (1): 275–279.
Published: 17 March 2014
...S. C. Cairns Accuracy, or bias, is the closeness of a measured value to its true value. It can be of secondary importance in relation to repeatability and precision in a sampling programme, but where management decisions, such as the setting of kangaroo harvest quotas, are involved, accuracy...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 26 (3-4): 144–148.
Published: 17 March 2014
....., woodchippinq, ranking first (with 77% of respondents ranking this subject as interesting), with theme issues, e.g., kangaroo harvesting, ranking a close second at 74%. The next two highly ranked articles were those with an ecological outlook (67%) and editorials on contemporary issues (64%). Collectively...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 25 (3): 88–90.
Published: 17 March 2014
... is required. The results also have important implications for the management of kangaroo populations in that they showed that both female and male animals of a wide range of ages are likely to be acceptable for human con- sumption thereby allowing a balanced harvest of animals. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors...
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Australian Zoologist (2017) 39 (1): 146–153.
Published: 01 December 2017
... goats kangaroos as a resource sustainable harvesting wild dogs 146 2017 To make things worse for rangelands, some unsettling changes are underway I have been involved with the RZS for a long time, and have much admiration for the Forums and their subsequent publications and other Society...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (1): 309–316.
Published: 17 March 2014
...H. I. McCallum The fundamental reason for counting kangaroos is to ensure that harvests are demonstrably sustainable. Given this goal, it is essential that the survey method should be able to detect broad scale trends in population size. Aerial counts will detect trends only if the constant...
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Australian Zoologist (2012) 35 (4): 979–982.
Published: 29 January 2012
... Cooney, R., Archer, M., Baumber, A., Ampt, P., Wilson, G., Smits, J., Webb, G., 2012 (in press). THINKK again: getting the facts straight on kangaroo harvesting and conservation. In Science under siege: zoology under threat edited by P. Banks, D. Lunney, C. Dickman. Royal Zoological Society of New South...
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Australian Zoologist (2017) 38 (3): 395–407.
Published: 01 June 2017
... harvesting (i.e., culling) is considered a successful management option (e.g., Caughley et al. 1987; Arnold 1988; Grigg 1988, 1995), although the program has had detractors (e.g., Arnold 1988; Stacker 1988; Hale 2004). In contrast to the lack of successful intervention in macropod culling on Kangaroo Island...
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Australian Zoologist (2017) 39 (1): 31–38.
Published: 01 December 2017
... on the Table: Plenary 1 these French researches that have studied geographical in that way. There s no pride in terms of the practice of indication. So, if you take the case of kangaroo, at the harvesting kangaroos. There s no building the economic moment when you eat a kangaroo in the supermarket you resource...
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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2002
10.7882/9780958608534
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-3-4