A Model for Assessing the Relative Humaneness of Pest Animal Control Methods

Under the Australian Animal Welfare Strategy, the NSW Department of Primary Industries’ Vertebrate Pest Research Unit, have developed a model for assessing the relative humaneness of pest animal control methods. 

ISBN: 978-1-921575-26-6 (Second edition June 2011) 

• Preface to the second edition
  
• Foreword and acknowledgements
  
• Executive Summary
  
• Part A: Review of humaneness assessment
  
• Part B: A model for assessing the humaneness of pest animal control methods
  
• Section 2 - Assessing the humaneness of commonly used invasive animal control methods
  
• Appendixes
  
• • Ground shooting of feral donkeys PDF [95kb]
    
  • Cage trapping of feral cats followed by killing PDF [78kb]
    
  • Cage trapping of feral cats (with transport) followed by killing PDF [79kb]
    
  • Mustering of feral camels  PDF [53kb]
    
  • Aerial shooting of feral goats  PDF [92kb]
    
  • Trapping of feral goats PDF [65kb]
    
  • Aerial shooting of feral horses  PDF [95kb]
    
  • Baiting of foxes with 1080  PDF [95kb]
    
  • Trapping of pest birds using net traps  PDF [105kb]
    
  • Rabbit warren destruction by explosives  PDF [92kb]
    
  • Trapping of wild dogs using padded jaw traps followed by killing  PDF [96kb]
    
  • Humaneness matrices  PDF [158kb]