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... around groups of properties and lowering numbers through various other means. Non-commercial kill leads to poor animal welfare outcomes and considerable wastage. Regulators cannot monitor the number of kangaroos killed by amateurs, nor ensure high standards of dispatch of animals. To improve kangaroo...

... taxonomic knowledge fulfills a practical need by providing a valuable identification tool for amateurs and the general public. The objective of NudiKey is to summarise the essential diagnostic characteristics of the epibenthic Australian heterobranch families and, using the freely available Lucid v3.3...

... hunting for archaeological evidence of planning: you won t find anything (Natalie Rogers, University of NSW) Value of anecdotal reports and implications of results of amateur zoological researchers (Gary Opit, NFA) Maybe it s conservation management that s killing our wildlife (Guy Ballard, Peter...

... histories and the habits of lizards provide a fascinating field for the amateur naturalist (p.21), he rarely considered the impacts of humans on reptiles or the need for their conservation. Indeed, he failed to recognise the soon-to-be imperilled status of the Estuarine Crocodile, Crocodylus porosis...

... many naturalists. There are many taxa that are wide open for study and this can be done by amateurs as well as professionals. Many taxa are known only from the single collection event that formed the basis of their description. In many respects, with the majority of invertebrates under 3 mm in length...

... but, in 1847, another parson, the Rev. G. E. Turner, Rector of Ryde, who was a keen amateur naturalist, was appointed as (honorary) Secretary. We shall hear more of these three museum heads after I have introduced a few other men. The Botanic Gardens, established in 1816, had similar ups and downs...

... zoologists: Charles Hedley (conchologist); Alan McCullough (ichthyologist); W. J. Rainbow and W. W. Froggatt (entomologist) and T. Harvey Johnson (parasitologist). Also elected was a well-respected amateur ornithologist, A. F. Bassett Hull. Launcelot Harrison joined the Council a year later: He and Harvey...

... for professional scientists rather than the public. This also tends to make a distinction between the scientists and the amateurs whose knowledge is critical for citizen science. PAUL WILLIS: Okay. Well, let s break that down then into two points. I ll just throw it open to the panel from the last session, around...

... the sequence of development gifted amateurs seems to be a hallmark of Australian into Stages from 1 (fertilised egg) to 46 (newly- herpetology; Anstis exemplifies that tradition in truly metamorphosed frog). To avoid excessive repetition of spectacular fashion. descriptions, Anstis divides tadpoles into 23...

... observation of E. macquarii in the Greater Sydney region appears to be the discovery of three specimens by experienced amateur herpetologists in Centennial Park in the 1940s (Browne 2004). Centennial Park lies within the Sydney Coast Georges River Basin, and E. macquarii can now be found there in large...

... would be next to nothing. taxonomic status of Australian freshwater turtles, in fact, John Cann is a true champion to both the amateur it undoes much of the progress and stability achieved in and academic worlds of turtle conservation and natural the last 20 years. The IUCN Turtle Taxonomy Working...

... the mating season; females produce small litters in autumn; and juveniles may associate with the female parent for several years after birth (Arena 1986). Study site In 1982 one of us (CM), an amateur naturalist, moved to a newly-constructed house 300 m from the ocean in the small town of Peppermint Grove...