bidda jones: 'the afcmp as a model for integrating animal welfare standards into large feral...
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Reducing feral camel impacts across remote Australia:
Australian Feral Camel Management Project
21st November 2013, Parliament House Theatre, Canberra
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Session Two: Governance and Delivery Speakers: Billy Landy, Mark Jeffries and Peter See Byron Brooks, Ethan Hansen, Troy Hansen and Peter Twigg Mike Eathorne, Meramist Pty Ltd Andy Bubb, Ninti One John Virtue, Biosecurity SA Bidda Jones, RSPCA
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The AFCMP as a model for integrating animal welfare standards into large feral herbivore management
Dr Bidda Jones, RSPCA Australia Member of the AFCMP Steering Committee
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Overview
• Humane starting point • Steps to achieving humaneness • Factors affecting humaneness • Measuring compliance and outcomes • Humaneness matrix • Benefits of integrating animal welfare
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Project vision
Biodiversity, agricultural (pastoral), cultural assets and social values of the rangelands are better protected by comprehensive, co-ordinated and humane management of feral camels. March 2010
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What does humane mean?
• Humane pest control is the development and selection of feasible control programs and techniques that avoid or minimise pain, suffering and distress to target and non-target animals.
• A totally humane control method is one where the animal experiences no pain, suffering or distress.
• Efficacy is different from humaneness • Techniques may be more or less humane depending
on the context and the way they are applied
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Steps to achieving humaneness
1. Establish agreed standards (SOPs): – Aerial-based shooting – Ground-based shooting – Mustering
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Steps to achieving humaneness
2. Ensure compliance through contractual arrangements 3. Develop extension materials & training against SOPs
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Key factors affecting humaneness
• Aerial shooting – Operator skill (shooter and pilot) – Target animal behaviour – Visibility/terrain
• Ground shooting – Operator skill – Visibility/terrain
• Removal for slaughter (multi-stage) – Operator skill at each stage – Infrastructure/equipment – Distances between stages
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Measuring compliance and outcomes
4. Auditing against the SOPs – Assessing compliance with SOPs for aerial
shooting and mustering – Feedback from assessments – Transport and slaughter not audited
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Measuring compliance and outcomes
4. Verification of animal welfare outcomes – Post-mortems – Estimates of time to death
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Humaneness assessment model
• Model developed to assess relative humaneness of different control techniques
• Two parts: A – welfare impact prior to death B – mode of death
• Scores based on duration and severity of suffering
• Assumes best practice (compliance with SOPs)
• 2010 assessments refined in 2013
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RSPCA Australia input/oversight
• Development of COP and SOPs • Humaneness assessment model • Input into assessment and verification
methodology • Sharing of outcomes • Transparency and trust:
o access to mustering operations o access to aerial shooting and verification
activities
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Benefits of ensuring humaneness
Better animal welfare outcomes Influence the methodology of other control
programs Ethical (what ought to be done) Builds public confidence Sound basis for explaining project
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