Regional Pest Management Strategy 2012-2017: Northern Plains Region
This document is the pest management strategy for the Northern Plains Region, which stretches from Geurie and Peak Hill in the south-west to Gunnedah in the east, north to the Queensland border near Yetman, and west to the Narran River and the townships of Warren and Narromine.
Publisher: Office of Environment and Heritage
Cost: Free
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-74293-627-7 / ID: OEH20120376
File: PDF 1.08 MB / Pages 56
Name: regional-pest-management-strategy-northern-plains-region-120376.pdf
This document acknowledges that the region includes a diversity of landscapes that support a number of threatened animals, plants and communities, important cultural heritage, wilderness areas and Ramsar wetlands.
The strategy identifies:
- animal pests, weeds and diseases in Northern Plains Region and their preferred control methods
- the values and species that they threaten
- programs and priorities for pest management.
The highest priority pest control programs aim to reduce the impact of:
- feral goats and foxes on populations of brush-tailed rock-wallabies
- foxes on malleefowl
- foxes and feral pigs on ground nesting birds in wetland reserves
- weeds in endangered ecological communities (EECs) and where they impact on threatened species.