Joint aerial shooting training takes off!
NT Parks and Wildlife Commission has recently completed a joint training course on aerial platform shooting.
The course was held at Mary River National park and resulted in qualifications of 6 staff from across NT Parks and Wildlife - Wildlife Operations and Central Australian Parks, Department of Lands and Planning - Flora and Fauna division and NT Police.
The course delivered the nationally accredited unit of competency AHCPMG311 and was delivered by INLOC – a Veteran owned and run business operating in Darwin. This qualification covered off on all safety, planning and ethical shooting of pest animals from aircraft.
For more information, go to the National Training Register website.
Feral vertebrates cost the Australian economy in excess of $866 million a year as well as driving some of the worst rates of extinction in the world. Aerial shooting is regarded as amongst the most effective and humane way to remove large numbers of vertebrate feral animals from the environment.
To find out more about the cost excess, go to the Australian Government’s Department of Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry.
To read more about the extintion species, go to the CSIRO website.
By working together, induvial costs to each agency were reduced whole of government capacity to both remove damaging feral animals from the NT environment, respond to emerging biosecurity emergencies and interagency interoperability was increased.
