caa a22 4500 445806958 CHVBK 20180317145159.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10745-010-9365-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10745-010-9365-8 Turning Pests into Profits: Introduced Buffalo Provide Multiple Benefits to Indigenous People of Northern Australia [Elektronische Daten] [Neil Collier, Beau Austin, Corey Bradshaw, Clive McMahon] Introduced species are a major driver of negative ecological change, but some introduced species can potentially offer positive benefits to society. Asian swamp buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) were introduced to the northern Australian mainland in 1827 and have since become a serious pest. However, buffalo have also supported various profitable industries, including harvesting for hides, meat, and live export. We investigate an indigenous wildlife-based enterprise that harvests wild buffalo from indigenous-held lands in remote northern Australia. We used ecological modelling and social research techniques to quantify the buffalo dynamics and to examine their contributions to sustainable livelihoods in a remote Aboriginal community. Results suggest that the current harvest rate will not drive the species to extinction and it is thus unlikely that the population size of buffalo will be reduced enough to alleviate ecological damage. This enterprise is profitable and provides regular royalty payments to traditional land owners and wage income for employees, along with several additional non-financial capital assets. We demonstrate that the commercial exploitation of introduced species can provide additional or alternative sources of protein and income to promote economic development for indigenous people. This type of enterprise could be expanded to more communities using harvest rates above maximum sustainable yield to provide greater positive social and ecological outcomes for indigenous communities. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2010 Feral introduced species nationallicence Asian swamp buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) nationallicence Sustainable wildlife harvest nationallicence Economic development nationallicence Australia nationallicence Collier Neil School for Environmental Research, Charles Darwin University, 0909, Darwin, the Northern Territory, Australia aut Austin Beau School for Environmental Research, Charles Darwin University, 0909, Darwin, the Northern Territory, Australia aut Bradshaw Corey The Environment Institute and School of Earth Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, 5005, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia aut McMahon Clive School for Environmental Research, Charles Darwin University, 0909, Darwin, the Northern Territory, Australia aut Human Ecology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 39/2(2011-04-01), 155-164 0300-7839 39:2<155 2011 39 10745 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-010-9365-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-010-9365-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Collier Neil School for Environmental Research, Charles Darwin University, 0909, Darwin, the Northern Territory, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Austin Beau School for Environmental Research, Charles Darwin University, 0909, Darwin, the Northern Territory, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bradshaw Corey The Environment Institute and School of Earth Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, 5005, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McMahon Clive School for Environmental Research, Charles Darwin University, 0909, Darwin, the Northern Territory, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Human Ecology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 39/2(2011-04-01), 155-164 0300-7839 39:2<155 2011 39 10745 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer