Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0349305
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Managing endangered Banteng in a jointly-managed national park: contested values, Indigenous aspirations and resource use. Should north Australia's huge populations of feral animals be eradicated for conservation, or exploited as a rare opportunity for Aboriginal enterprise in remote regions? We examine options for a herd of Banteng, a cattle species endangered in its native Asian range but abundant in Gurig Ganak Barlu National Park, Aboriginal land managed jointly by traditional owners and a conservation agency. In this unique cross-disciplinary study Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal stakeholders will identify Park values that may be threatened by Banteng. Those values will be incorporated in decision-support tools (bio-economic models) identifying tradeoffs between protecting values and providing incomes for Indigenous landowners.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 01-2004
End Date: 12-2006
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $144,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Aboriginal Studies | Natural Resource Management | Other Studies in Human Society | Environment And Resource Economics
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Integrated (ecosystem) assessment and management | Environmental and resource evaluation not elsewhere classified | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander development and welfare |
