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Submission 009 Safer W Aterw Ays Bill 2018 Submission 009 Safer Waterways Bill 2018 Submission by Terri Irwin, Director, Australia Zoo 1638 Steve Irwin Way Beerwah Qld 4519 To: Committee Secretary Innovation, Tourism Development and Environment Committee Parliament House George Street Brisbane Qld 4000 Introduction Like its previous iteration, the Safer Waterways Bill 2018 is a misnomer in name and intent. Rather than making waterways safer for people in Queensland, this Bill will increase the risk of more crocodile attacks on people. Both the Introductory Speech and Explanatory Notes are high on emotion, anecdotes and misleading statements but short on data and research. Like the previous Bill, the Bill's authors have purported to have consulted widely but have made no contact with Queensland researchers who have carried out the world's longest continuous study of crocodilian behaviour - Australia Zoo and the University of Queensland. In this submission, I will outline why this Bill increases the risk of crocodile attacks, correct the many inaccuracies in the Introductory Speech and Explanatory Notes and make a number of recommendations. I would like to appear before the committee if my diary permits or alternatively request that another Australia Zoo representative appear before the committee hearing. Background Steve Irwin began crocodile research in the 1980s, and his capture and study techniques remain world's best practice to this day. Australia Zoo, in partnership with the University of Queensland (UQ) and Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors, now manage the largest and most successful crocodile research project in the world, utilising these very techniques. Each August, a team of crocodile experts, scientists and conservationists travel to the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve Nature Refuge on Queensland's Cape York Peninsula. Through research conducted it has been discovered that crocodiles can spend more than seven hours underwater; we've Open everyday 9.00am - 5.00pm 1638 Steve Irwin Way Phone; +61 7 5436 2000 [email protected] Ciosed Christmas Day, ANZAC Day open 1.30pm - 5.30pm Beerwah Sunshine Coast Qld 4519 Fax: +61 7 5494 8604 australlazoo.com.au AUSTRALIA ZOO OPERATIONS Pty Ltd alf. ACN 124 586 910 ABN 20 653 279 3 06 A MEMBER OF THE AUSTRALIA ZOO GROUP Safer Waterways Bill 2018 Submission 009 unlocked secrets regarding their diet, vital information on their movement patterns, and much more to aid in the conservation of these incredible apex predators. These findings have contributed significantly to the knowledge base of crocodilians, with a large focus of the project also being to educate those that share the crocodiles' habitat. This world-renowned research involves: • Tagging and tracking crocodiles in the Wenlock River with Acoustic technology, GPS Satellite transmitters-over 150 animals have been tagged • Monitoring crocodile behaviour, their movements and physiology • Vital research uncovering the distances crocodiles move, their ability to return to their home range after relocation and revolutionary findings on their ability to remain submerged, and their behaviour during flood events • Australia Zoo's longstanding partnership with UQ dates back more than 15 years. With UQ Professor of Zoology, Professor Craig Franklin, and his team at the helm of the UQ scientific research team, the collaborative annual croc research trip with the Irwin family and Australia Zoo is going from strength to strength. • Acoustic Telemetry is used to track the estuarine crocodiles in the Wenlock River. Once captured, an acoustic tag is surgically implanted into the crocodile. These acoustic tags send a signal to 50 receiving stations set up on the length of the Wenlock River and some surrounding water bodies. These signals are logged and when analysed enable us to discover how the crocodiles are using the river and interacting with each other. • Another exciting part of our research on the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve Nature Refuge is isotopic analysis. Isotopic analysis identifies markers in bloods/muscle/bone to give us an insight into what makes up the natural diet of the estuarine crocodile and just how important their roles are in their natural environment. • This is just the tip of the iceberg for us as there are many questions that remain unanswered. All this information is critical in learning how to successfully manage our wild crocodile populations, and most importantly, keep people safe. • Each research trip to the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve Nature Refuge continues to break new ground in crocodile research globally and is central to managing the co-existence of crocodiles and people. Crocodile Research Focus As we move forward with our research, we hope will see us capture new crocodiles to provide additional data for the project and recapture crocodiles we've been following for the past 10 years. From recapturing crocodiles that have been tagged and living in the river, we're able to ascertain diet, examine environmental drivers for movement and behavioural patterns of Individual crocodiles with a focus on temperature, and deploy satellite-dlve transmitters to look at long-scale movements and diving behaviour. We also aim to continue our research with other predatory species living in the river, which involves deploying acoustic tags in animals such as bull sharks, whip-tail rays, golden catfish, spear-tooth sharks and barramundi. We aim to eventually track over 230 animals in the river, and this will allow us to monitor them for the next 7-10 years. Educating local communities Each year, the Irwin family not only take part in the conservation and research work on Cape York but they venture into local schools in Weipa to conduct talks with the children, to educate them on how to safely live alongside crocodiles. The Irwin family also conduct community talks to educate Safer Waterways Bill 2018 Submission 009 and inform the local communities, it is the Irwin family and Australia Zoo's belief that individual culling and relocation are not effective ways to manage crocodile/human co-existence; rather, research and educating people are the key. Misleading claims of Safer Waterways Bill The Explanatory Notes and Introductory Speech make unsubstantiated claims such as: • The Bill aims to eliminate from our waterways all crocodiles that pose a threat to human life, while protecting crocodiles from becoming endangered as a species. • Waterways, which people previously regularly swam in, are now infested with crocodiles. • From 1985 to 2015, the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection recorded 25 crocodile attacks in Queensland - seven of them fatal. • The Bill aims to create a significant and sustainable crocodile industry in Queensland through controlled egg harvesting. • The Bill gives power to manage crocodiles on their land and places a value on crocodiles and creates an unprecedented economic opportunity for the landholder. • The Bill allows people to pay to hunt crocodiles on private land with the landholder's consent if the landholder is a permit holder. The Bill will increase risk of crocodile attacks Through our research of crocodile movements and the probability of crocodile-human interactions, the removal of crocodiles, either through trapping or culling, will instead increase the likelihood of crocodile attacks as people become more complacent. It certainly will not eliminate them. White the removal of dangerous crocodiles which have attacked or threatened to attack humans is justified, the removal of crocodiles will not limit the chances of further attacks and will create a false sense of security for residents and tourists. Our peer-reviewed and published research, some of which is attached to this submission, notes that large male saltwater crocodiles (greater than 2.5m) can travel hundreds of kilometres in the six- month breeding season from September to February in search of unattached females. (Home Range Utilisation and Long-Range M ovement of Estuarine Crocodiles during the Breeding and Nesting Sea so n , Campbell, Dwyer, Irwin & Franklin, 2013) The dominant males tend to remain close to their breeding females which also have localised movements. Therefore, crocodiles removed from the waterways are easily and quickly replaced by roving crocodiles in search of partners. Translocating crocodiles presents even more danger of crocodile attacks - and not because relocated crocs become more dangerous as stated in the second reading speech. As our ground­ breaking experiment found in 2004 that when a 4.5 metre male crocodile, was relocated from the west coast of Cape York to the east coast of the Cape, it swam back to its original location - a distance of over 400km in under 20 days. In further research (Predicting the probability of large carnivore occurrence: a strategy to promote crocodile and human coexistence, Campbell, Dwyer, Wilson, Irwin & Franklin, 2014), the probability of human-crocodile contact increases between September to December, at night and during a high tide. Crocodiles are highly effective ambush predators and perfected this technique over millions of years of evolution. In estuarine environments, crocodiles are virtually undetectable underwater. Research Safer Waterways Bill 2018 Submission 009 [The intrinsic properties of an in situ perfused crocodile heart, Franklin & Axelsson,1994} has shown crocodiles can slow their resting heartbeat to enable them to stay underwater for periods of up to seven hours to enhance their ambush abilities. Based on the evidence provided, it is clear that simply removing crocodiles
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