... out from the harbour foreshore by the direct effects of the plague and the indirect effects arising from rat persecution to prevent plague, making the arrival of bubonic plague in the 1900s a disaster for Sydney's foreshore wildlife. If this hypothesis is correct, then future attempts to restore Bush...

.... Integrating policy and science in natural resources: why so difficult? Ecological Management and Restoration 7 (1): 37-39 Integrating policy and science in natural resources: why so difficult? Ecological Management and Restoration 7 37 39 Chapple, R. 2005. The politics of feral horse management...

..., Hoplocephalus bungaroides. Ecology 84: 2668-2679. Canopy structure, microclimate, and habitat selection by a nocturnal snake, Hoplocephalus bungaroides Ecology 84 2668 2679 Schlesinger, C. A. and Shine R. 1994. Choosing a rock: perspectives of a bush-rock collector and a saxicolous lizard...

... in agricultural landscapes to inform land management and restoration practices. We found that bushrocks were critical as overwintering retreats, and reptiles preferred higher elevation areas with minimal canopy cover. We found reptiles rapidly responded to bushrock restoration, with increases in abundance...

... attempts to re-green cities to improve environmental condition, including restoring habitat for biodiversity. However, many barriers to widespread implementation still exist, including competition for limited space, a lack of technical capacity, and a disengaged community. New approaches to urban...

.... The law of diminishing returns: woodland birds respond to native vegetation cover at multiple spatial scales and over time. Diversity and Distributions 20: 59-71. Doherty, M.D. 2013. Book Review: The Victorian Bush: Its Original and Natural Condition. Ecological Management and Restoration 14: [online...

..., prediction model DOI: httpdx.doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2015.002 The Bush Stone-curlew on the central coast of NSW 2015 295AustralianZoologist volume 37 (3) Zimmermann 2000). Habitat models can be used to aid conservation, increase or restore critical habitats and have extensive use in conservation biology...

.... Nature Conservation Council of NSW. 1997. On the brink: Your bush, their habitat, our Act. Is the Threatened Species Conservation Act working? Nature Conservation Council of NSW, Sydney, NSW. On the brink: Your bush, their habitat, our Act. Is the Threatened Species Conservation Act working? Nix...

... readily agree, but we decided to accept the paper. To us, the issue was not so much that an extinct animal might reappear, or an exotic species would have slipped into the Australian bush and not be noticed except for a caller to the ABC, but that such perceptions of strange creatures are so common...

... Reserve which has involved volunteer bush regenerators working each week, a series of grants from 1987 to 2002 (currently Natural Heritage Trust grant) employing contract bush regenerators and Ku-ring-gai Council makes an annual contribution to maintain the previously restored areas (Pallin 2000). In 1985...

... nanus , species currently listed on the Threatened Species Conservation Act (1995) and the New Holland Mouse Pseudomys novaehollandiae listed as vulnerable under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (1999). The most abundant mammals trapped were the Bush Rat Rattus fuscipes...

... for the conservation of remnant bush and desire for the restoration of degraded habitats. Sue Briggs (2002) sees this process of reconnection as no less than the instilling of a new, ecology-centred ethic in place of the human- centred ethic that has dominated modern thinking about nature since the 17th century. Yet...

... emphasis on the maintenance and restoration of Gastrolobium plants and thickets through appropriate fire regimes is likely to aid survival of native fauna through improved shelter, food supply and secondary poisoning of introduced predators. Further research is warranted to confirm toxicity of native...

... satis- factorily in the wild. We hope to accumulate information on longevity and movements, in spite of the small numbers banded. 1987-88, 19 released; 1988-89, 79 released; 1989-90, 63 released. Habitat Restoration Project The steep bushland valley surrounded by houses where the Grey-headed Flying...

... transformation into Easter bilby; it concludes as follows: Easter Bunny says, Bilby, I want you to have my job. You know about sharing and taking care. I think Australia should have an Easter Bilby. We rabbits have become too greedy and careless. Rabbits must learn from bilbies and other bush creatures...

... and habitat loss (Kock et al. 2011); (iii) poaching and consumption of bush meat (a common descriptor for wild non- domesticated animal species hunted for food), linked to population pressures, a lack of livelihood opportunities, and infectious disease (Alders 2009); and (iv) non- communicable diseases...

... that are vulnerable to black rat invasion. * corresponding author: [email protected] © 2018 Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2018 rodent commensal habitat restoration pest control movement edge dynamics dispersal 5132018 Introduction Commensal species are those species...

... committee in 1967 to advise him on the optimum sample of the various ecosystems throughout the State which should be reserved for scientific purposes from those lands still essentially in the natural state, or capable of being restored to something approximating the natural state (McMichael 1973, cited...

... Bird Observers Club Rainbow Lorikeet remnant woodland restoration threatened species © 2018 Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2018 2018 675 Australian Zoologist volume 39 (4) Theme Edition: The critical value of long-term field studies and datasets Introduction There have been...