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The Impact of Animals on the Environment: Should We Be Switching to Kangaroos and, if so, How Could We? A Paper to Stimulate Discussion
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Grigg, Gordon |
| Copyright Year | 2002 |
| Abstract | SUMMARY The long-term ecological and economic sustainability of what we now call the sheep rangelands probably depends upon finding a less damaging alternative to sheep. If you were to design the perfect grazing animal for our semi-arid rangelands, it would be one that returns a good profit at stocking rates that are ecologically benign. Neither sheep nor goats qualify but, with better marketing, I believe that kangaroos are not far from that perfection. In this paper I describe in some detail how a new generation of kangaroo growers might operate, not farming them, but taking a selective, regulated, harvest from the free range populations. I identify current problems and suggest solutions, and provide suggestions about how the increase in price for the product could be achieved. |
| Starting Page | 425 |
| Ending Page | 434 |
| Page Count | 10 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 24 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://livestocklibrary.com.au/bitstream/handle/1234/9126/grigg1A.pdf;jsessionid=50B52D3FAC80A072C44EAC11E15B3ED9?sequence=1 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
