Australia: Research project looks to safeguard wild-harvest buffalo supply chain in Northern Territory

Buffalo grazing at Beatrice Hill research station in the Northern Territroy. Picture supplied. A new research project by AgriFutures Australia and the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia is set to examine the wild-harvest buffalo supply chain in the Northern Territory. The first-of-its-kind project, Supply Chain Best Practice to Improve the Health and Welfare of Free-Range Buffalo Harvest in Arnhem Land, aims to identify the barriers and potential opportunities to ensure the industry's sustainable growth. Since the introduction of buffalo to Australia in the 1880s, the industry has developed a free-range sector in the NT and a dairy buffalo sector which operates in most states. Buffalo herd at Beatrice Hill Research Station in the Northern Territory. Picture: Carolyn Martin Most free-range buffalo in the NT are found in unrestricted herds across Arnhem Land and other areas of Indigenous land, where they have important and often competing economic, ...