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Buffalo industry raises concerns about “culling for carbon” study

Northern Territory live export buffalo at the Noonamah yards. About 11,000 head are exported live each year. Photo: NT Buffalo Industry Association

THE Northern Territory buffalo industry has pushed back on a new study suggesting culling the wild Top End bovine has the potential earn millions-of-dollars in carbon credits.

A team of scientists from Charles Darwin University released the study in January, which ran 20-year simulations of feral water buffalo populations to estimate how much methane production would be avoided on a parcel of land in the South Alligator River region of Kakadu…

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