Tasmanian Fox Hoax or Fraud

[Ian May <>]

Two relevant reports are

http://www.pestsmart.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/FoxReview_Web.pdf

http://www.pestsmart.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Fox_2009_Review.pdf

Interestingly however I cannot find another most relevant report, previously available at http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/Home/1?Open  It now does not seem to exist.  However I am pretty sure I downloaded a copy several years ago and will post it if I can find it.  It deals with the main recommendations that setup the original funding exercise.

It is interesting to note Tasmanian community reaction to this controversy.  One radio commentator was heard to say "The Great Train Robbery" netted only £2.6 million.

Ian May
St Helens, Tasmania

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Andrew Taylor wrote:

Martin Butterfield asked me privately about general availability of
the papers, some are behind paywalls with only abstracts.
As others might be interested I've listed them below.

The "review" group (Marks et al) have most of their papers here:
http://www.tasmanianfox.com/Tasmanian_Fox/Publications.html

The focus of much of their criticism was this 2012  paper from Sarre et
al, suggesting foxes were widespread in Tasmania:
http://www.abc.net.au/cm/lb/5426244/data/journal-of-applied-ecology-2012-e2809cfoxes-are-now-widespre-data.pdf

More recent papers from Sarre et al.  responding/relevant to
criticism of their work:
http://tasmaniantimes.com/images/uploads/2014_Sarre_etal_DefiningSpecificityInDNADetectionOfWildlife_ForSciIntGenet_(1).pdf
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.12407/abstract
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.12506/abstract

This is also worth a read:
https://australianmammals.org.au/articles/2014/10/18/foxes_in_tasmania__update

FWIW it loooks to me if Marks et al (the review group)  were incorrect
in at least some of their  criticisms.   But given the absence of 2011
fox observations its (thankfully) looking like Sarre et al. were also
incorrect in suggesting foxes were widespread in 2012.

Andrew

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