What does managing and measuring the impact of pests on Crown land over a 20-year period look like?
For Glenelg Ark, it's a story that's told through more than 3.12 million photos and 450,000 kilometres of driving on state forest and national park tracks.
The pest management project in the state's far south-west is marking 20 years of striving to bolster endangered mammal populations such as the Southern brown bandicoot and Long-nosed potoroo.
Since 2005, Glenelg Ark has been delivering a landscape-scale fox-baiting program, using camera monitoring across the 90,000-hectare project area to assess effectiveness of reducing foxes and increasing numbers of small mammals.
Monitoring cameras placed across the project area evaluate the types and numbers of animals in treated versus untreated areas. The cameras are pivotal to assessing the program's effectiveness in reducing fox numbers and increase in small mammal numbers.
Glenelg Ark Project Officer Ethan Le Duc said the project is unique, in that 20,000 hectares within the project area is left untreated to provide a comparison as a 'control' area.
