Harvesting Freely Roaming Public Resources: Can Property Owners Harvest Kangaroos Utilizing Their Land Without Impacting Neighbors?

Moloney, Paul; Hearne, John

doi:10.1007/s10666-013-9374-2

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“…The focus of our study relates to the mobility of the larger macropods, such as the eastern grey kangaroo, Macropus giganteus ; the red kangaroo, Macropus rufus ; and the western grey kangaroo, Macropus fuliginous . Moloney and Hearne () investigated a competitive game in which there was the possibility of a landowner attracting kangaroo from a neighboring farm and hence increasing their harvests at the expense of the neighbor. Their analysis showed the existence of a Nash equilibrium close to optimal for both properties.…”

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Cooperative considerations for a mobile resource that transcends property boundaries

Alrashidi

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McArthur

et al. 2017

Natural Resource Modeling

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There are environmental advantages to the commercial harvesting of kangaroo over domestic stock. Kangaroo, however, are able to jump fences and move among properties with ease. Consequently, questions of ownership and the equitable distribution of profits arise. We model a cooperative where two neighboring ranches experience rainfall equally but asynchronously each year. A kangaroo population roams freely among the properties to graze. Through harvesting, the population can be regarded as constant. In a cooperative, the location at which harvesting occurs is irrelevant but significant differences in the consumption of resources will affect the profit sharing arrangements between the property owners. Results indicate that the resources consumed on each property with the same total primary production may differ depending on the timing of rainfall. On average, however, the population consumption on each property is independent of the intra-annual differences in rainfall distribution and hence primary production. K E Y W O R D S cooperative enterprise, ideal free distribution, kangaroo harvesting, mobile resource, semiarid rangelands Recommendations for Resource Managers • The mobile nature of kangaroos should not be an impediment to their sustainable utilization for commercial purposes. Natural Resource Modeling. 2017;30:e12138.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/nrm

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