S5 Ep18: Ross Ainsworth, NT's escalating buffalo issues

13/06/2025 34 min Episodio 186
S5 Ep18: Ross Ainsworth, NT's escalating buffalo issues

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IN today's podcast episode, host Kerry Lonergan chews the fat with prominent live export identity and veterinarian - Katherine-based Ross Ainsworth. The pair discuss recent live export trade trends, and how the industry manages the growing population of esturine (Asian) buffalo in the NT  


Topics discussed:
 
• Escalating numbers of wild buffalo in Arnhem Land 
• The environmental problems 
• Commercial opportunities / barriers
• Feral camel and pig numbers
• Live trade out of the north
• Should Australia be worried about the boxed meat coming out of Brazil 
• Indonesian quarantine risks. LSD, FMD… and rabies. 

 
 

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