Feral camels destroy native and stock vegetation
ABC Central Australia (Alice Springs), Outback NT Rural Report, 05/11/2008 06:17am
Haskin says millions of feral camels tramp on native vegetation, eat food for cattle and destroy watering points. She says Glenn Edwards has been researching camels for years. Edwards talks about camels’ impacts like extinction of plant species like quandong, impacts on wetlands and waterholes as they drink a lot of water and on pastoralism as camels often destroy fences, which is costing the industry about $7 million per annum. He says they are fine-tuning the final report of the Desert Knowledge CRC project, which lays the blueprint for managing camels on a national perspective. He says they are seeing the commercial use of camels like pet meat. He says culling is unpalatable to some stakeholders.
Interviewee: Emma Haskin, Rural Reporter; Glenn Edwards, Scientist, Natural Resources, Environment and the Arts
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