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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 0001
10.7882/RZSNSW.1998.025
EISBN: 9780958608503
... There is growing recognition of the crucial role councils may play in biodiversity conservation. Various problems serve to thwart Local Government’s potential, including fiscal constraints, fragmentation of jurisdiction and outdated values. To date, much attention has focused on development...
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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2002
10.7882/FS.2002.055
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-4-1
...-gai Flying-fox Reserve (the Reserve) in suburban Sydney, and conducted an ongoing program of public education on the role of flying-foxes in the ecosystem. In 2001, the KBCS conducted a survey of households neighbouring the Reserve to examine the attitudes of the local residents to the flying-fox...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 33 (3): 398–409.
Published: 17 March 2014
... the kangaroo harvest with conservation in the sheep rangelands through models that can provide economic returns and a greater management role for landholders in the kangaroo industry. According to the principles of conservation through sustainable use (CSU), when local people receive direct economic returns...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 40 (4): 605–627.
Published: 01 June 2020
..., service capacity and reporting; (3) the effectiveness of the NWC, local veterinary services and government as supporters of the sector; and (4) future aspirations for wildlife rehabilitation. Individually licensed wildlife rehabilitators were not asked to assess wildlife rehabilitation groups...
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Australian Zoologist (2017) 39 (1): 52–56.
Published: 01 December 2017
... and the imposition of centralised state control, and this has been perpetuated by post-colonial governments (e.g. Walters et al. 2015). This means indigenous peoples and local communities have no individual or community stake in conserving wildlife (Bennett et al. 2007). They have no legal basis for excluding...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 28 (1-4): 103–107.
Published: 17 March 2014
... for their present and potential capacity to provide resources to satisfy human needs as well as environmental values, and as such their sound management and con- servation is of concern to the governments of the countries to which they belong and are of value to local communities and to the environment as a whole...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 26 (3-4): 153–157.
Published: 17 March 2014
... between Common- wealth, State, Territory and Local Governments and their agencies. Such a "co-operative federalist" attitude should see some of the barriers and overlaps of the past reduced, if not actually dissolved. The ANPWS is committed to in situ conservation as the optimum goal for fauna and flora...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (2): 186–193.
Published: 30 September 2020
.... Corporations donated produce to feed flying-foxes in care and provide supplementary feeding for wild populations of rock-wallabies and pygmy-possums. Local businesses and organisations also supplied resources, funding and food storage capacity to support these conservation actions. The contributions from...
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Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (2): 173–180.
Published: 01 January 2018
... to their local marine environment (Voyer et al. 2014). This conflict can largely be traced back to competing ideas over the objectives for the park. As previously mentioned the objectives of the NRSMPA focus on biodiversity protection. In keeping with these objectives the Government, conservation scientists...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 28 (1-4): 39–47.
Published: 17 March 2014
...- governmental conservation organisations, indigenous peoples' groups, relevant industries, and local resource managers. Economists, architects, and land-use planners are being invited, so as to enhance the flow of ideas between professionals concerned with pro- tected area management and those concerned...
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Australian Zoologist (1990) 26 (2): 61–62.
Published: 01 June 1990
... government funding at a Commonwealth, State or Local Government level. These are truly "community" Trusts. Their Trustees will act to ensure that grants made are for purposes that would not, in the day to day activities of any government, be addressed as part of an ordinary works or funding programme...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 29 (3-4): 157.
Published: 17 March 2014
... for Nature. Conference delegates were welcomed by the local Yamatji Aboriginal people - a first for an Australian conservation conference. Papers were presented which gave examples of the participa- tion of indigenous peoples in nature conservation in Australia, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Pakistan, Saudi...
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Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (2): 228–256.
Published: 01 January 2018
..., the direct consequences of inclusion on the Register affected the Commonwealth rather than state or local government. A Commonwealth Minister, or an agency acting under delegation, making decisions which could affect places on the Register was bound to consider the impacts, and (s30 AHC Act) ensure...
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Australian Zoologist (2024) 43 (4): 545–573.
Published: 24 January 2024
... habitat (Local Government NSW, pers. comm), and wildlife carers receiving abuse from members of the public during flying-fox rescues (NSW Wildlife Council, pers. comm). Improving public perceptions of flying-foxes is therefore imperative for progressing flying-fox conservation. 1 Over the years, the Royal...
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