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Human Impacts on Catchments
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Key Message 2 - We all Live and Interact in Catchments
Human Impacts on Catchments
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Topic of Study - Exotic (Pest) Animals
 
  • How has the introduction and invasion by exotic animals impacted on catchment health in Australia, including aspects of water quality and biodiversity?
  • What effect has this had on ecosystem services?
  • What costs have the introduction and invasion of exotic animals imposed on ecosystem services?
 
Type
Description
Resources Covering the Topic

Easy

- Pest animal proliferation.
- Summary of issues.
- Loss of native fish and introduction of exotic
  fish due to changed European land use in
  the Murray-Darling Basin.
- Threats to National Parks: Pest animals.
- Brief overview of issues in NSW National
  Parks.
- Introduced pest animals in Australia.
- Brief review of camels, cane toads, dingos,
  rabbits and buffalo, with good photos.
- Invasive species.
- ‘Rabbits are weeds too!’ Facts on invasive
  plants and animals.

More Comprehensive

- Invasive species - feral animals in Australia.
- An in-depth look at some invasive species,
  such as rabbits, foxes, cats, pigs etc.
- Discusses the damage they do to the
  environment.

Environment Australia Biodiversity
http://www.ea.gov.au/biodiversity/invasive/pests/
index.html

- Background to threats to biodiversity around
  the world.

Species Survival Commission
http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/pubs/policy/
invasivesEng.htm#BACKGROUND

- Introduced wild animals in Australia.
- Descriptions of a wide range of pest animals
  in Australia, how they were introduced and
  the damage they do.

Australian National University
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/student.projects/rabbits/
wildanim.html

- Marine Invaders.
- Comprehensive review of the main issues.

WA Government Fisheries
http://www.wa.gov.au/westfish/hab/broc/
marineinvader/miintro.html

More Complex
- The threat of non-indigenous species across
  the US. Thorough and comprehensive
  examination of the processes of invasion.
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