Culture and Environment
Managing wild cattle and buffalo on Country requires balancing the economic opportunities with the environmental and cultural impacts. This comes down to making decisions. Where are we happy to have feral herds and where are they causing impacts that we aren't happy with?
Knowing where wild cattle are impacting important values can help make decisions about protecting areas you care about.
Collecting baseline data for feral animal distributions and impacts and aligning with management goals and management plans will be important if your organisation wants to improve management outcomes. There are also potential car bon and biodiversity opportunities associated with feral animal management that will require rigorous accounting of management and associated impacts. The core challenge here will be the trade-off between existing economic opportunities and future opportunities that are not well established or tested and therefore have uncertain economic benefits and operational impacts.
