Bush tucker, bush pets, and bush threats: Cooperative management of feral animals in Australia's Kakadu National Park

Conservation Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1385-1391

  Robinson, Catherine J ^a   Smyth, Dermot ^b   Whitehead, Peter J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Bush pets; Bush tucker; Co management; Feral animal damage; Indigenous ecological knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FERAL ORGANISM; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; KAKADU NATIONAL PARK; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

ANIMALIA; BUBALUS BUBALIS; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 28344431707     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00196.x     Document Type: Article

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