Case Studies / Practice
Case study: A numbers game at Indiana Station
By Peter Clifton, Northern Territory Regional Landcare Facilitator
From the LandcareNT blog, posted Thursday, 02/05/2013
Last November I visited David and Liz Bird at Indiana Station and asked them about managing a cattle station in the Arid Zone.
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ABC Rural News: Credits roll in for Territory carbon project
The first savanna burning project approved under Australia's Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) is about to receive carbon credits for the first time. Located 150 kilometres south of Darwin in the Northern Territory, the Fish River project uses early-season burning practices to reduce the amount of carbon released by late-season fires. (Tuesday, 23/04/2013)
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Case Study: Fires devastating the Gulf Region
By Peter Clifton, Northern Territory Regional Landcare Facilitator
From the LandcareNT blog, posted Tuesday, 16/10/2012
Fires devastated a couple of stations in the Gulf in September, and now properties further west a copping a beating.
I spoke to the manager of McArthur River Station David Daniell a couple of days ago who estimated that two large fires, which occurred about a week apart in September, burnt 90-95% of the 7,225km2 property.
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Case Study: CFI project approved for Fish River Station
By Peter Clifton, Northern Territory Regional Landcare Facilitator
From the LandcareNT blog, posted Friday, 02/11/2012
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The Clean Energy Regulator has approved a savanna burning regime at Fish River under the Carbon Farming Initiative. The methodology reduces total...Fish River's savanna burning project will be the first Indigenous project to earn carbon credits. Links to online information about identification, issues and management.
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This blog, published by Northern Territory Landcare, aims to engage with land managers and promote discussion about sustainable management practices. It is a platform for landholders to: read about sustainable practices developed locally; have their say by providing comment and counter-comment; and to document their experiences for others to learn from.
Case Study: Rotational grazing with fire and water at Lakefield Station
By Peter Clifton, Northern Territory Regional Landcare Facilitator
From the LandcareNT blog, posted Wednesday, 12/12/2012
Garry Riggs from Lakefield Station recently told me about the importance of spelling country.
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Management Project - Fish River Fire Project
The Clean Energy Regulator has approved a savanna burning regime at Fish River under the Carbon Farming Initiative.
The methodology reduces total greenhouse gas emissions from the property, benefiting the environment and potentially earning an income stream from carbon credits for Traditional Owners.
By using methods that draw on Indigenous pattern burning and science, the area of land that had been historically burnt each year by wildfires has been reduced from 69% to 3% of the property.
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The first savanna-burning project was approved early this month under the federal government’s Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI). It is estimated that the project could generate up to 20,000 Australian carbon credit units each year. In order to determine the precise number of credits, satellite imagery of the region is used by AusCover to determine fire area and intensity of fires. (November, 2012)
Management Project - EcoFire
AWC is addressing the problem of large destructive fires in the Kimberley through a regionally coordinated fire management project called EcoFire. The project is run from AWC’s base at Mornington Wildlife Sanctuary in the central Kimberley.
EcoFire reflects AWC’s commitment to improve land management on a regional scale, outside the boundaries of its sanctuaries. The project area includes 14 central and northern Kimberley pastoral, indigenous and conservation properties (covering almost 5 million ha), including Mornington and Marion Downs Wildlife Sanctuaries.
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Legge S., Murphy S., Heathcote J., Flaxman E., Augusteyn J. and Crossman M. (2008). "The short-term effects of an extensive and high-intensity fire on vertebrates in the tropical savannas of the central Kimberley, northern Australia". <i>Wildlife Research</i> 35, 33-43.
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Legge S et al. (2012) EcoFire 2004‐2011 fire pattern analysis, central and north Kimberley. Australian Wildlife Conservancy, Perth, WA. EcoFire is a regional fire management project covering approximately 4 million hectares of the central and north Kimberley.
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This video tour The Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) developed with Google Earth visualizes the impact of high-intensity fires on Australia's savannah ecosystems and wildlife. It also shows the impact AWC's EcoFire Project has had in reducing the extent of wildfires through practical, science-based fire management.
EcoFire 2004‐2011 fire pattern analysis central and north Kimberley
Legge S et al. (2012) EcoFire 2004‐2011 fire pattern analysis, central and north Kimberley. Australian Wildlife Conservancy, Perth, WA.
EcoFire is a regional fire management project covering approximately 4 million hectares of the central and north Kimberley.
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Management Project - NAILSMA Carbon Project
The Carbon Program strives to address several key issues through sustainable carbon abatement activities:
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Management Project - The North Kimberley Fire Abatement Project
The North Kimberley Fire Abatement Project aims to get Traditional Owners involved in the carbon economy while looking after country in the Kimberley.
The project involves burning country the right way in order to reduce greenhouse gasses that cause global warming and climate change.
The Australian Government has given funding to the Kimberley land Council and other northern land councils, through NAILSMA, to prepare to start carbon trading in 2013.
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An article outlining research being undertaken by Curtin University mapping biomass for improved fire management in the north Kimberley, as part of a greenhouse gas abatement project in the area.
