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• Coordinated input from industry and community representatives and • Thamarrurr rangers for biodiversity surveys of the Macadam Range technical expertise through the Weed Risk Management Reference area (upper Daly land trust area). Group and Technical Working Group in the development and • Consulted pastoral and Aboriginal landholders on the management adoption of the Weed Risk Assessment process. of feral camels in central Australia and collaborated with rangers and • Developed the Tindall Limestone (Katherine) draft Water Allocation Traditional Owners of Uluru Kata-Tjuta National Park on the impacts of plan through advice from the Katherine Water Advisory Committee camels on waterholes. and the Daly River Management Advisory Committee, and invited • Engaged the pastoral industry in monitoring and targeted surveys of public comment on the draft Plan. threatened plants and animals in central Australia. This included working • Established the Alice Springs Water Advisory Committee, tasked with on Andado, New Crown, Umbearra, Henbury, Undoolya, Tempe Downs providing advice regarding the implementation of the Alice Springs and Love’s Creek pastoral properties and species such as brush-tailed Water Allocation Plan. mulgara, crest-tailed mulgara, kultarr, plains mouse, Slater’s skink, • Established and enhanced collaborative projects with Indigenous Acacia peuce, Acacia pickardii, Acacia undoolyana, Acacia latzii. landowners and ranger groups including: • Worked with the Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation to develop a • Tiwi rangers for research and management of threatened plants conservation plan for the Oenpelli python, a threatened species that is and animals restricted to the Arnhem Land plateau. • • Anindilyakwa rangers for research and management of Compiled Indigenous knowledge of mammals, and their decline, across threatened mammals (in particular the northern hopping-mouse Top End Aboriginal communities, using a comprehensive collection of (Groote Eylandt) mammal specimens as catalysts for engagement with older Aboriginal people in informal workshop settings. • Dhimurru rangers for research and management of the Gove • crow butterfly Worked with community groups and non-government conservation organisations, such as the Top End Native Plant Society, on monitoring • Adjumarllarl and Jawoyn rangers for research and management of threatened species and evaluations of areas for acquisition for of threatened Boronia plants (west Arnhem Land plateau and non-government reserves (e.g. Bush Heritage, Australian Wildlife Nitmiluk areas) Conservancy). • Jawoyn rangers for research and management of the threatened • Hosted a community workshop in Darwin on Coastal, Estuarine and northern shrike-tit Marine research priorities and indicators, which provided critical inputs • Gumurr Marthakal rangers for translocation of the threatened for major conservation policies being developed for the Northern northern quoll and golden bandicoot (Wessel and English Territory, including the Coastal and Marine Biodiversity Conservation Company Islands, NE Arnhem Land) Strategy, Marine Research and Development Strategy, and the • Wardekken rangers for biodiversity surveys of the East Alligator development of a Natural Resource Management Coastal Estuarine area; and and Marine Monitoring, Reporting and Evaluation Framework for the Darwin region.

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