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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1991
10.7882/RZSNSW.1991.026
EISBN: 0-9599951-5-3
... conflict within the timber industry. Forest policies developed in Victoria in the mid 1980’s in response to this conflict set new standards in the ecologically sustainable utilization of forests for timber and non timber values. The intent of these policies has, however, been largely circumvented...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.018
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-8-9
.... However, legislative and policy changes in the early 1990s have largely reversed this situation. This review documents the changes in forest management that now require closer attention be given to the requirements of forest herpetofauna. We also provide an overview of research that contributes...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.003
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-8-9
.... The National Forest Policy Statement (Commonwealth of Australia 1992) opens with the statement: “The Governments share a vision of ecologically sustainable management of Australia's forests”. The Policy Statement launched the Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) process, with its emphasis on public forests...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.1022
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-8-9
..., there were many conflicts over forest practices which obscured the great progress that had been made. There have been recent developments with government inquiries and political innovations resulting in the National Forest Policy Statement, the development of Regional Forest Agreements, and new forest...
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Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.1039
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-8-9
... in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Most recently, I have participated in the writing and development of the National Forest Policy (early 1990s), the consequent Comprehensive Regional Assessments (CRAs), and the negotiations for the resultant Regional Forest Agreements (RFA). Finally, I have participated...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1991
10.7882/RZSNSW.1991.025
EISBN: 0-9599951-5-3
... Victorian forest fauna is threatened by clearing, fragmentation and degradation of habitat. Within the last decade, the Victorian Government has reappraised policies in an attempt to develop a sustainable forest industry. A policy framework (State Conservation Strategy) and a strategic approach...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.1059
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-8-9
... and implement. Consequently, this book is as much about perception as policy, including our perception of what makes up forest fauna. Most chapters deal with vertebrates, a reflection of an early interest in vertebrates no doubt fuelled by legislation which targets threatened vertebrates, as well...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2011
10.7882/FS.2011.040
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-4-3
... The Grey-headed Flying-fox, Pteropus poliocephalus , is listed as a threatened species in NSW, Victoria and nationally. The Grey-headed Flying-fox is a key species in maintaining forest ecosystems through the pollination of native trees and the dispersal of rainforest seeds. This threatened...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1991
10.7882/RZSNSW.1991.001
EISBN: 0-9599951-5-3
... and managers powerful policy cues for action, including the urgency of funding long-term scientific studies. This review and the chapters of the book provide directions and emphases for the policies indicated by the Commission. Urgent action is required if the future of Australia’s forest fauna...
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Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2001
10.7882/FS.2001.010
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-2-7
... The management of wild-living dogs, including dingoes, in New South Wales is affected by legislation, land tenure and corporate policies of various government agencies. On land managed by State Forests, it is recognised that there is a need to develop control programs for pest populations...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (2): 214–227.
Published: 01 January 2018
... (Williamson et al. 2005; Dargavel 2008). Contemporary and later commentators praised it as a model Act (Rodger 1952; Dargavel 2008). Lane Poole initiated, continued or supported other significant policies. He resisted agricultural alienation of forested lands and established arboreta to continue trials...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 29 (1-2): 1–2.
Published: 17 March 2014
... - Forest Use. AGPS; Canberra. COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA, 1992. A new focus for Australia's forests. Draft national forest policy statement. AGPS, July 1992. EBY, P., 1991. Finger-winged night workers: managing forests to conserve the role of Grey-headed Flying Foxes as pollinators and seed...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (1): 110–117.
Published: 17 March 2014
... the need for such information is necessary to achieve the ecologically sustainable forestry objectives required by the National Forest Policy (Anon. 1982). Law (1996) reviewed the literature concerning the effects of forestry on hats, largely from studies in southern Australia. These studies yielded...
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Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (2): 643–653.
Published: 31 August 2022
...Christopher R. Dickman; Pat Hutchings; Brad Law; Daniel Lunney ABSTRACT The 2021 annual forum of the Royal Zoological Society of NSW raked over the ashes of the unprecedented “Black Summer” bushfires of 2019–2020 in eastern and southern Australia to assess how forest ecosystems...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2004
10.7882/FS.2004.029
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-8-9
... The question posed is whether current forestry practices threaten forest fauna? No confident direct answer can be given to this question. There are numerous reasons for this uncertainty. The question entails ‘proof of the negative’ which, in science, is typically a difficult task. Necessary...
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Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2011
10.7882/FS.2011.048
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-4-3
... and managers to publicise some of the pressing conservation issues facing bats. No story exemplifies these more than the recent extinction of the Christmas Island Pipistrelle Pipistrellus murrayi . In his reflective book on forest pattern and ecological process, ecologist David Lindenmayer emphasised...