Australian Wildlife Services has been working with ACT Parks and Wildlife Services and TAMS to develop some maps of the new proposed Molonglo River Reserve for inclusion in the MRR Plan of Management. The reserve covers the lower Molonglo River past Scrivener Dam almost all the way to the confluence with the Murrumbidgee River. The Plan of Management is currently in draft and will be made public for consultation later in the year. …
Category: GIS and Mapping
There are extensive kangaroo population surveys undertaken in Australia throughout the kangaroo harvesting commercial zones. Population estimates from these areas are used to set yearly harvesting quotas to ensure a sustainable kangaroo population and industry. However, there are extensive areas outside of the commercial zone with kangaroos that are not included
Australian Wildlife Services partnered with the Canberra Museum and Gallery (CMAG), the ACT Environment and Sustainable Development Directorate and ACT Surveyor-Generals Office to produce a series maps depicting how the vegetation and landscape of Canberra might have been like before European settlement based on observations by early explorers and surveyors.
The maps were part of the the 2113: A Canberra Odyssey exhibition open at CMAG between Sat 13 July – Sun
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Buffel grass presence / absence surveys began in June 2012 on Angas Downs IPA. The survey can be redone next year to show how buffel is expanding or not. It will be interesting to see how quickly it takes to increase from a few plants to a dense patch. If a fast increase in plant density is
…AWS has full GIS capability in house using ArcGIS (ArcMap, ArcInfo), Mapinfo, Manifold. We interface these programs with Google Earth for easy customer viewing and use. Our mapping and GIS work ranges from digitizing hand drawn maps, complex spatial model development and producing spatial wildlife density estimates. AWS also works with Cadastral and Topographic digital databases, Landsat and SPOT imagery and can provide vegetation and fire mapping services. And our GIS analyst is reasonably priced.
