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Bathurst Kangaroo Project
Our goal is to develop a novel and innovative management program for kangaroos, creating a framework that other councils can look to in the future. To achieve this, we have developed a research program to complement Bathurst Regional Councils endeavours to manage kangaroos and issues of conflict. Our experience shows that by linking attitudinal and education programs for people to sound and independent scientific research on kangaroos we can contextualise the problems and identify workable solutions. By including council, the community and scientists, all stakeholders can have a say in how best to mitigate conflicts.
Monitoring of kangaroo populations
The aim is to develop a cost-effective and non-invasive protocol for accurately estimating population size in an ongoing basis. Methods for estimating kangaroo abundance have to date focussed on line transects (often flown) and sweep counts. These have been shown to suffer from observer bias and lack rigorous standard operating procedures. New technologies exist to determine animal abundance but macropods have not been formally tested with them to optimise deployment. Key criteria are identifying optimal search and deployment effort (how much technology for how long over what size area), quantifying detection probabilities (what proportion of animals can be detected - i.e. how many are missed), and how these criteria differ among species and locations.
Community engagement
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Physiological stress
We are examining the physical and psychological health of kangaroos that are experiencing varying degrees of human disturbance, such as habitat disruption due to roads and fencing, social disruption due to hunting, culling and harassment, as well as sustained injury as a result of these practices. To assess the health of individuals and populations, we intend to conduct behavioural observations and assess key physiological parameters.
Our research integrates expertise from conservation, ecology, psychology, endocrinology, ethology, and animal welfare in an effort to shift our traditional approach to wildlife towards one of more compassion. To do this we must incorporate the well being of the individual animal into our understanding of population and species health.
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