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<![CDATA[WILD SCIENCE - 20 pages - News]]>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 09:59:25 +0930Weebly<![CDATA[Landcare Grants]]>Sat, 11 Nov 2017 14:00:00 GMThttps://www.wildscience.com.au/news/november-11th-2017Landcare Grants for Smart Farming are now open - for use in protecting & improving soil, vegetation & biodiversity

Smart Farms Small Grants: CLOSING DATE 7 December 2017
The Department of Agriculture & Water Resources has announced Smarter Farming Small Grants are now open. These grants are available to support farmers and regional communities to improve the protection and productive capacity of our soils, water and vegetation and to improve biodiversity.

Feral animals can cause have a detrimental impact on the nevironemnt through soil degradation ,such as erosion, reduced water quality and affect our biodiversity througb destruction of habitat of native fauna. The Smart Farms program has three components:

Smart Farming Small Grants - $5,000-$100,000
Smart Farming Partnerships
Building Landcare Community & Capacity

To read an overview of the 2017 Smart Farms Program, visit Department of Agriculture and Water Resources.
The Natural Resource Management website also has useful information about the Smart Farming Program and the National Landcare Program.
To access the application forms and relevant documents for the Smart Farms grants, go to Grant Connect website.

If you'd like to apply for grant funding to address feral animal impacts on your property and would like help with estimated project costing please contact us to discuss your needs.

]]><![CDATA[Territory NRM 2017 Conference & Wild Science Workshops]]>Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:00:00 GMThttps://www.wildscience.com.au/news/territory-nrm-2017-conference-wild-science-workshopsWild Science Workshops at the Territory NRM 2017 Conference

Wild Science's Brett Ottley & Stu Barker will be co-presenting two workshops at the upcoming TNRM Conference running from 21-24 November. Don't miss these informative workshops:

Fighting Ferals - Managing feral herbivores in the NT for long term outcomes - 21 November
Sky Country - Managing the land from the air - 23 November

For more information and the conference program visit the TNRM website.

]]><![CDATA[EIANZ National Flying Fox Forum]]>Tue, 24 Oct 2017 14:00:00 GMThttps://www.wildscience.com.au/news/eianz-national-flying-fox-forum

EIANZ National Flying-Fox Forum

Wild Science recently attended the National Flying-Fox Forum hosted by the Environment Institute of Australia & NZ. Government agencies, land managers and others met to explore issues around flying-fox management and conservation.

Updates were delivered by state environment departments from Queensland, NSW, Victoria and South Australia as well as a national update delivered by Ross Rowe from Department of Environment and Energy. Dr David Westcott from CSIRO provided a progress report on the Flying-fox ecology and managing human-flying-fox conflict project. Further topics and discussions centred around managing community perceptions of flying-fox camp management, education to mitigate human/flying-fox conflict and other current research.

]]><![CDATA[Wild Science - WINNER - 2015 Territory NRM Award - Small Business Initiative]]>Wed, 11 Nov 2015 14:00:00 GMThttps://www.wildscience.com.au/news/wild-science-winner-2015-territory-nrm-award-small-business-initiativeWild Science - WINNER - 2015 Territory NRM Award - Small Business Initiative

]]><![CDATA[Wild Science - Finalist in 2015 Territory NRM Awards]]>Sun, 08 Nov 2015 14:00:00 GMThttps://www.wildscience.com.au/news/wild-science-finalist-in-2015-territory-nrm-awardsWild Science - Finalist in 2015 Territory NRM Awards

]]><![CDATA[Brett Ottley Presents at 2014 Territory NRM Conference - Aspects of the Planning for a Control Program]]>Thu, 27 Nov 2014 14:00:00 GMThttps://www.wildscience.com.au/news/brett-ottley-presents-at-2014-territory-nrm-conference-aspects-of-the-planning-for-a-control-program

]]><![CDATA[ABC Rural News Matt Bran Interviews Brett Ottley]]>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:00:00 GMThttps://www.wildscience.com.au/news/abc-rural-news-matt-bran-interviews-brett-ottley

Click above to hear Matt Bran interviewing Brett Ottley.

Matt Bran & Brett Ottley:

The key to feral animal control is easy!

"Make sure you find out how big the problem is before you start controlling them" says Brett Ottley from ABS Scrofa, a Northern Territory based wildlife and feral animal management business.

Speaking at today's Territory NRM conference in Darwin, Mr Ottley encouraged pastoralists and land managers to firstly conduct an aerial survey to map the animals and estimate the numbers before creating a feral animal control plan.

"You then need to work out how many animals are there, so you can efficiently work out how much time you're going to need and the cost of the control."

"If you have a feral pig problem, you need to know how many pigs you have to cull so that the animal numbers don't regenerate faster to fill the void and explode due to a lack of competition for food," he said.

"You need to be more strategic about the effort needed to actually reduce the population level, and that might mean a target of getting rid of 70 per cent."

"You need to start with that basic understanding so you have a target and you can monitor and assess the success of the control program."

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