The Maranoa Kangaroo Harvesters and Growers Cooperative Ltd featured in an ABC TV Landline story on the issues constraining landholders from converting a liability into an asset and benefiting from the kangaroos on their properties. AWS has been working with the Cooperative to establish a regional approach across property boundaries to deliver more sustainable land management, biodiversity conservation and earning carbon and biodiversity credits.
…Month: October 2011
Jennifer Smits, George Wilson and Lyn Wilson spent three weeks in South Africa from 24 September 2011 learning from South African experiences and techniques of wildlife management and tourism. They were joined in the second week by a delegation of Anangu Rangers from Angas Downs
We were privileged to participate in the recovery of a White Rhinoceros and calf which had been wounded by poachers attempting to remove its horn. The horn is used as a traditional (alternative) medicine in
…Angas Downs Rangers visited South Africa in October 2011 on a training and educational trip of a lifetime. The itinerary included visits to national parks and private game reserves. Topics covered
- intensive wildlife management and techniques for increasing wildlife numbers, and catching and moving of wild animals
- importance of the dollar value of animals in both national parks and private game reserves to wildlife conservation
- Indigenous guiding and game viewing, tourism and accommodation support
- role of fire and vegetation management conservation
AWS staff and Angas Downs’ Indigenous Rangers sent a delegation to the International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, South Africa in Kimberley in October 2011. The theme of the Symposium was – The business of conservation – science, livelihoods and values. “The greatest contribution that wildlife ranching can make is in its extension to rural peoples throughout the world and the benefit from its sustainable use.”
Three papers were delivered:
George Wilson (Australian Wildlife Services) Status of wildlife ranching in Australia – an
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