Dpaw 2013-14 LCI MERI Report
North-Kimberley Landscape Conservation Initiative 2013–14 Monitoring, Evaluation, Research & Improvement Report ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Department of Parks and Wildlife acknowledges the Traditional Owner groups who have enabled staff access to their country to conduct both operational land management activities and the field monitoring program under the Landscape Conservation Initiative. Parks and Wildlife acknowledges the traditional custodians and Native Title holders of Balanggarra, Dambimangari, Wilinggin and Wunambal Gaambera lands and thank them for their support and direct contributions to this program, as well as the contributions that their own Healthy Country programs have made to conservation outcomes in the North-Kimberley. Parks and Wildlife acknowledge the land management and research programs done by Australian Wildlife Conservancy in the central and north Kimberley. The contributions they have made to fire management, feral animal management and biodiversity conservation are appreciated. The authors thank the large number of Parks and Wildlife staff involved in the development, implementation and analysis of the LCI reporting program and on-ground threat management programs. This includes regional staff: Richard Fairman, Lindsay Baker, John Hayward, Greg Goonack, Richard Tunnicliffe, Paul Hyndes, Allan Thomson, Philip de Bruyn, David Chemello, Tracy Sonneman, Ed Hatherley, Nathan Connor, Jai Latham, Daryl Moncrieff and Luke Bentley; and Perth-based staff: Lesley Gibson, Norm McKenzie, Greg Keighery, Ricky van Dongen, Bart Huntley, Jane Chapman, Graeme Behn, Janine Kinloch and Georgina Pitt. Parks and Wildlife acknowledge the Department of Agriculture and Food for their contribution to large feral herbivore and weed management, and the authors thank Mick Everitt for supplying data from the Judas donkey program.
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