Buffel

Workshop Report Dampier

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

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

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 North Rockhampton

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. As part of this research, we (CSIRO) ran a workshop in Rockhampton in November…

Pastoralists' perceptions of the benefits and cost of buffel grass

This report is an attempt to quantify the broad spectrum of benefits and costs of buffel grass to pastoralists, and the likely pastoral response to potential changes in buffel grass management strategies that aim to minimise the environmental costs of…

Quantifying costs and benefits of buffel grass

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…

Quantifying costs and benefits of buffel grass

Buffel grass is a major environmental weed with the potential to establish in over 60% of mainland Australia.
It is also highly prized by many pastoralists as an exotic pasture grass for livestock. Within these two conflicting views there is a spectrum…

Benefits and costs of buffel grass

Buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) is a valuable introduced species for pastoral production but its invasion into arid and semi-arid rangelands represents a key threatening process for conservation values.

Introduced Perennial Species