The following Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are documents that provide best practice guidance for wildlife survey and monitoring activities. They are valuable tools that can be used to ensure surveys and monitoring programs are undertaken consistently, to a high standard, and importantly, address the welfare and wellbeing of animals. They help to ensure that data collected will be adequate, consistent and comparable.
SOPs are living documents. They require continual updating and regular review by the Animal Ethics Committee (AEC) as new techniques arise and/or old procedures are improved. The AEC is required to maintain existing SOPs and endorse all new standards, updates or additions as per the provisions outlined in the Australian Code for the care and use of animals for scientific purposes.
Why have Standard Operating Procedures?
Advantages of SOPs are that they:
SOP Funnel Traps for Live Capture of Terrestrial Vertebrates PDF 888KBSOP Animal Handling and Restraint using Soft Containment PDF 342KBSOP Biopsy Tissue Sample Collection for Crocodiles PDF 490KBSOP Marking of Marine Turtles Using Flipper and PIT Tags PDF 623KBSOP Permanent Marking of Mammals Using Ear Notching PDF 541KBSOP Permanent Marking of Vertebrates Using PITs PDF 500KBSOP Sampling Cetaceans Using a Remote Biopsy System PDF 906KBSOP Semi-permanent Marking of Mammals using Ear Tags PDF 661KBSOP Transport and Temporary Holding of Wildlife PDF 358KBSOP Vessel-based Cetacean Surveys Using Photo Identification PDF 761KBSOP Aluminium Box Traps for Capture of Terrestrial Vertebrates526.61 KBSOP Cage Traps for Live Capture of Terrestrial Vertebrates.pdf461.09 KBSOP Care of Ejected Pouch Young410.25 KBSOP Dry Pitfall Traps for Live Capture of Terrestrial Vertebrates417.35 KBSOP Euthanasia of Animals Under Field Conditions748.95 KBSOP Hand Capture of Wildlife367.03 KBSOP Mist Net Trapping for Birds655.78 KBSOP Nest Boxes for Monitoring Arboreal Mammals508.68 KBSOP Soft Cage Traps for Capture of Macropods533.41 KB
SOP Aluminium Box Traps for Capture of Terrestrial Vertebrates458.92 KBSOP Cage Traps for Live Capture of Terrestrial Vertebrates439.44 KBSOP Dry Pitfall Trapping for Vertebrates288.71 KBSOP Soft Cage Traps for Capture of Macropods391.26 KBSOP Animal Handling and Restraint using Soft Containment563.70 KBSOP Biopsy Tissue Sample Collection for Crocodiles596.29 KBSOP Care of Evicted Pouch Young602.87 KBSOP Euthanasia of Small Stranded Cetaceans using Firearms728.12 KBSOP First Aid for Animals585.49 KBSOP Hand Capture of Wildlife503.56 KBSOP Hand Restraint of Wildlife766.33 KBSOP Humane Killing of Animals under Field Conditions644.78 KBSOP Managing Disease Risk in Wildlife Management628.60 KBSOP Marking of Marine Turtles using Flipper and PIT tags821.19 KBSOP Mist Net Trapping for Birds898.04 KBSOP Nest Box Monitoring for Arboreal Mammals661.57 KBSOP Permanent Marking of Mammals using Ear Notching696.02 KBSOP Permanent Marking of Reptiles by Scale Marking680.95 KBSOP Permanent Marking of Vertebrates using Microchips429.25 KBSOP Semi-permanent Marking of Mammals using Ear Tags703.67 KBSOP Temporary Marking of Mammals, Reptiles and Birds543.27 KBSOP Tissue Sample Collection and Storage for Mammals670.78 KBSOP Transport and Temporary Holding of Wildlife567.48 KBSOP 8.1 Vouchering vertebrate fauna specimens1.17 MBSOP Using Artifical Nest Boxes to Monitor Little Penguins1.52 MBSOP Ethical Wildlife Photography 278 KB