Kangaroo Managment Plan - Territory and Municipal Services - ACT ...

ACT KANGAROO MANAGEMENT PLAN
Contents
Acknowledgements.............................................................................................................................. vii
Ministerial Foreword............................................................................................................................ viii
Executive Summary............................................................................................................................... ix
1 INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................................................... 1
1.1 Kangaroos and wallabies in the ACT...................................................................................................2
1.2 Status of kangaroos and need for management............................................................................3
1.2.1 Overview............................................................................................................................................3
1.2.2 A comprehensive management plan......................................................................................4
1.2.3 Scientific knowledge: eastern grey kangaroos ...................................................................4
1.3 Purpose and outline of the Kangaroo Management Plan...........................................................5
1.4 Considerations and issues for the Kangaroo Management Plan..............................................6
1.4.1 Environmental considerations...................................................................................................7
1.4.2 Economic considerations ............................................................................................................9
1.4.3 Social considerations ..................................................................................................................10
1.5 Need for and intended use of the Kangaroo Management Plan............................................ 12
2 LEGISLATIVE AND POLICY FRAMEWORK.....................................................................................15
2.1 ACT Legislation.......................................................................................................................................... 16
2.1.1 Nature Conservation Act 1980 ................................................................................................ 16
2.1.2 Planning and Development Act 2007 .................................................................................. 16
2.1.3 Animal Welfare Act 1992............................................................................................................ 16
2.1.4 Pest Plants and Animals Act 2005........................................................................................ 17
2.1.5 Other legislation............................................................................................................................ 17
2.2 Categories of land in the ACT.............................................................................................................. 18
2.2.1 Territory Land managed by the ACT Government.......................................................... 18
2.2.2 National Land managed by the Commonwealth Government................................... 18
2.2.3 Leased Territory Land managed by individual and institutional land holders...... 19
2.2.4 Googong Dam Area (ACT managed)................................................................................... 19
2.3 Management plans for Public Land and for Googong Foreshores........................................ 19
2.3.1 Public Land ..................................................................................................................................... 19
2.3.2 Googong Foreshores..................................................................................................................20
2.4 Declared threatened species and ecological communities.....................................................20
2.4.1 ACT declared threatened species/ecological communities........................................20
2.4.2 Commonwealth declared threatened species/ecological communities ................20
2.5 The ACT Vertebrate Pest Management Strategy......................................................................... 21
2.6 Management plans for National Land.............................................................................................. 22
3 KANGAROO POPULATIONS AND IMPACTS.................................................................................. 23
3.1 ACT kangaroo management in context.......................................................................................... 24
3.2 Determining kangaroo densities........................................................................................................ 25
3.3 Biology and ecology of eastern grey kangaroos......................................................................... 27
3.3.1 Evolutionary history.................................................................................................................... 27
3.3.2 Social structure and movement patterns........................................................................... 27
3.3.3 Reproduction................................................................................................................................. 28
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