Arid Lands Environment Centre proudly launch its position paper Firestorm- Understanding the risks and seizing the opportunities to better manage buffel grass across the Territory on 29 June 2024 at Name Arrwengkelthe.
Place-specific knowledges are critical in shaping how we respond to major environmental threats. Buffel has the capacity to smother 68% of the continent. The avenues presented by the paper and at the event lead the way in responding to buffel grass at both a local, landscape and national scale.
Read the position paper HERE.
We are witnessing buffel grass transform the identity of Central Australia; the red centre is turning green, then yellow before it goes up in flames.
ALEC’s position paper provides a comprehensive evidence-based strategy to turbocharge action on buffel grass across the Northern Territory. Our 10 priority actions and 54 recommendations represent the hope and opportunities that exist to conserve the plants, animals and landscapes which are so important to culture, community, health and economy.
Buffel fuelled fires are an existential threat to the arid and semi-arid lands. Decades of idleness has been a disaster economically, environmentally and for the health of Country. Further inaction will likely lead to extinctions and risks to human life.
We are proud as a community environment organisation to be providing a thorough pathway forward, to instil hope, to demonstrate care for the diversity of landscapes, species and communities impacted by buffel grass invasion and to overcome decades of government inaction.
Place-specific knowledges are critical in shaping how we respond to major environmental threats. Buffel has the capacity to smother 68% of the continent. The avenues presented by the paper and at the event lead the way in responding to buffel grass at both a local, landscape and national scale.