System and method for obtaining a carbon offset credit or emission permit based on management of a feral herbivore

摘要

#$%^&*AU2011200432A120110818.pdf#####ABSTRACT Feral herbivores such as feral camels, buffalo and pigs, cause damage to the environment, cultural sites and agriculture. However management of such animals has in the past been uneconomical. Feral herbivores also produce emissions of greenhouse gases such as methane through enteric 5 fermentation in the gut, and thus the premature death of such animals prevents the ongoing generation of methane emissions from that animal. A method for reducing carbon emissions and for obtaining valuable carbon offset credits or emission permits based on management of feral herbivores results in the premature death of the feral herbivores is described. Various methods including staged population models, Monte Carlo models, or statistically based sampling 10 techniques are described which may be used to quantify and estimate the number of years of avoided emissions resulting from a management action. This enables calculation of verifiable emission reductions which can be used to obtain carbon credits or emission permits for trading in carbon markets, thereby generating revenue from management of feral herbivores. 15100 132 110 N 150 130 112 116 142 140 114 114 Time 122 124 120 Figure 1 200 210 creating ownership of one or more feral herbivores; 220 enacting a management activity on one or more feral herbivores which leads to the untimely death of the one or more feral herbivores; 230 obtaining at least one valuable carbon offset credit or emission permit from an issuing authority for provision into a compliance or voluntary market for trading, wherein the at least one valuable carbon offset credit or emission permit is in units of calculated carbon dioxide equivalents and are issued based at least upon the number of managed one or more feral herbivores and the estimated number of years of avoided emissions. Figure 2 1/2