NESP MaC Project 3.9 - Establishing an Indigenous led approach to coordinated vertebrate p

A 2023-2024 project by the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub, managed by the Australian Ocean Data Network, focusing on feral animal impacts on coastal ecosystems in northern Australia. It aims to develop Indigenous-led management methods and includes planned outputs such as spatial tenure maps, a technical report, and a research paper.

Use Cases

• Mapping Indigenous land management tenure across northern Australia based on the planned spatial dataset.
• Analyzing the impact of wild livestock on carbon stocks and greenhouse gas accounts as described in the project overview.
• Developing methodologies for carbon abatement and biodiversity protection markets based on the research into feral animal impacts.
• Assessing threats to cultural values and biodiversity from feral animals on Indigenous-managed lands as outlined in the project description.

Strengths

• Project is explicitly designed to support Indigenous leadership in method development, as stated in the description.
• Research focuses on multiple prominent environmental values including carbon stocks, marine turtle depredation, and sediment loads.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Research conducted in partnership with Indigenous organizations with long-term feral animal management programs.

Time Range

2023-2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-17 10:46:43.334752; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northern Australia