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The Kangaroo Management Taskforce

Consensus in action

The Kangaroo Management Taskforce is funded by Local Land Services and works in partnership with all relevant agencies, stakeholders and industry.

Kangaroo Management Workshop

The Kangaroo Management Taskforce is funded by Local Land Services and works in partnership with all relevant agencies, stakeholders and industry.

The issues:

The Kangaroo Management Taskforce is funded by Local Land Services and works in partnership with all relevant agencies, stakeholders and industry.

NSW harvest zones - 5.5m in 2005 to 17.4 in 2016

Drought – early onset

Animal welfare – 17.4 m 2016 to 12.8m 2018

Responsibility for kangaroos?

Impacts on landscapes – including conservation areas

Productivity and enterprise viability – no return to

landholders

Disconnect between commercial and non commercial

Waste > 800 000 non commercial permits NSW 2018

No integrated approach for managing kangaroos

Social licence – communicating the issues

The Kangaroo Management Taskforce is funded by Local Land Services and works in partnership with all relevant agencies, stakeholders and industry.

Low harvest takes

Independent Chair Geoff Wise

Erlina Compton WLLS

Ken HarrisonNSW DPIE

Andrew MoselyWL Board

Russel GrantLandscape expertise

Leon ZankerWestern Landcare

Steve WolterNSW KMP

Jim MaynardWDC NSW Farmers

George WilsonKangaroo expertise

Fiona GarlandProject Officer

Rob KempHarvester

Dennis KingKIAA

Tanya StephensAVA

Julie KnightAboriginal Comms

Tanya DominguezRSPCA NSW

The Kangaroo Management Taskforce is funded by Local Land Services and works in partnership with all relevant agencies, stakeholders and industry.

Since formation….. Policy input - removal of cap on Animal Dealer Licences in

NSW MLA Social Acceptability project Agrifutures Review of Humaneness Assessment of

Kangaroo Control Raised awareness and informed Ministers and MP’s Media Research proposals – NSW Government NSW Government Inter-agency Kangaroo Working Group Project Officer Reforms to non commercial management August 2018 Hosted national symposium on kangaroos

The Kangaroo Management Taskforce is funded by Local Land Services and works in partnership with all relevant agencies, stakeholders and industry.

KMT branding Strategic PlanMarketing

Project Facebook pageWebsite Literature

Review Short films Case studies

The Kangaroo Management Taskforce is funded by Local Land Services and works in partnership with all relevant agencies, stakeholders and industry.

Identify barriers and impediments to effective kangaroo management and

control

Develop consensus supported,

evidence based approaches to

overcoming those barriers

Make policy recommendations

for improving kangaroo

management

Improve social licence regarding

kangaroo management

Increase national and international

markets for kangaroo products

Improvekangaroo

management

Strategic Plan

The Kangaroo Management Taskforce is funded by Local Land Services and works in partnership with all relevant agencies, stakeholders and industry.

Kangaroo Symposium

The Kangaroo Management Taskforce is funded by Local Land Services and works in partnership with all relevant agencies, stakeholders and industry.

What else are we doing?

New Action Plan

Projects ready for implementation

Aboriginal harvesting and working on country

Building relationships across broader jurisdictions

Building evidence

Lobbying for change

Building awareness through media and social media

We need new strategies for managing our national icon

and the best time to implement them is now.

The Kangaroo Management Taskforce is funded by Local Land Services and works in partnership with all relevant agencies, stakeholders and industry.