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Workshop Report Dampier

Economic, Environmental and Social Costs and Benefits of Buffel Grass and its Management

Buffel grass is valued in many regions for its contribution to livestock production, while also being regarded as a threat to biodiversity assets, often within the same region. In 2007 Land and Water Australia funded CSIRO to investigate the relative…

Workshop Report Port Augusta

Economic, Environmental and Social Costs and Benefits of Buffel Grass and its Management

Buffel grass is valued in many regions for its contribution to livestock production, while also being regarded as a threat to biodiversity assets, often within the same region. In 2007 Land and Water Australia funded CSIRO to investigate the relative bene

Workshop Report Alice Springs

Economic, Environmental and Social Costs and Benefits of Buffel Grass and its Management

Buffel grass is valued in many regions for its contribution to livestock production, while also being regarded as a threat to biodiversity assets, often within the same region. In 2007 Land and Water Australia funded CSIRO to investigate the relative…

Quantifying costs and benefits of buffel grass

Full Report

Buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) is an introduced pasture grass of significant commercial value but which also presents a major threat to conservation values in the rangelands. This report integrates the outcomes of regional workshops with institutional…

Evaluating the environmental benefits from managing WoNS in natural ecosystems

Weeds pose a significant threat to natural ecosystems in Australia and consequently large quantities of resources are spent each year to control them. In this project we undertook a desktop analysis to determine the current state of knowledge on how…

Adopting improved use of current water monitoring technology to manage recharge

Rising watertables are a major threat to the sustainability of irrigated agriculture in the southern Murray-Darling Basin. Future sustainability will depend on the ability of each irrigation farmer to choose paddock-crop-irrigation management combinations that control impacts on watertables on their farm. There is a perception that the technology already exists to enable farmers to manage water sustainably, and that the problem is one of adoption rather than the development of new technology. However, (more)...