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To feed or not to feed: a contentious issue in wildlife tourism

By David Newsome, Kate Rodger

Book: Too close for comfort: Contentious issues in human-wildlife encounters

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 2008

10.7882/FS.2008.029

EISBN: 978-0-9803272-2-9

... provisioning of food for wildlife without any form of management or structured where wildlife are deliberately fed via formal supervised arrangement. All of these situations have the potential to have both positive and negative impacts on wildlife. Recognised advantages of intentional feeding can be divided...

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Valued guest or vilified pest? How attitudes towards urban brushtail possums Trichosurus vulpecula fit into general perceptions of animals

By Sarah Wilks, Tracey Russell, Jutta Eymann

Book: Too close for comfort: Contentious issues in human-wildlife encounters

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 2008

10.7882/FS.2008.007

EISBN: 978-0-9803272-2-9

... in accordance with a dominionistic value system. Unlicensed trapping of brushtail possums was reported and the existence of a pool of privately owned traps was confirmed. Brushtail possums were reported to have been transported to nearby parks or bushland areas. Usually no provisions for food and water were...

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Journal Articles

Opinion: Missing half the picture, focus on scleractinian corals during bleaching events has left critical knowledge gaps in our understanding of reef-scale bleaching and recovery

Rosemary K. Steinberg

Australian Zoologist (2024) 43 (4): 631–637.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2024.004

Published: 09 February 2024

... composition and reef habitat and food provisioning (Emslie et al. 2011; Hempson et al. 2018; Hughes et al. 2018a; Streit et al. 2019; Fontoura et al. 2020; Froehlich et al. 2021). Unfortunately, focus on scleractianans to the exclusion of other habitat-forming groups during bleaching events has limited our...

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Journal Articles

The breeding biology of the Western Red-tailed Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus escondidus in the wheatbelt of Western Australia

Denis A Saunders

Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (2): 199–219.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2023.036

Published: 10 November 2023

... anomalous for species that lay only one egg each breeding attempt. Both species feed on a single resource. Western Red-tailed Cockatoos are not limited by food availability and can provision quickly (Saunders 2022). However, Glossy Cockatoos spend long hours feeding in order to provision their single...

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Non-legally binding authoritative statement of principles for a global consensus on the management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests

Australian Zoologist (2014) 28 (1-4): 103–107.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1992.019

Published: 17 March 2014

... to meet the social, economic, ecological, cultural and spiritual human needs of present and future generations. These needs are for forest products and services, such as wood and wood products, water, food, fodder, medicine, fuel, shelter, employment, recreation, habitats for wildlife, land- scape...

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Deaths and injuries to Grey-headed Flying-foxes, Pteropus poliocephalus shot at an orchard near Sydney, New South Wales

Anja Divljan, Kerryn Parry-Jones, Peggy Eby

Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (3): 698–710.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2011.022

Published: 20 October 2011

... poliocephalus (Chiroptera, Pteropodidae), from two maternity camps in northern New-South-Wales Wildlife Research 18 547 559 Eby, P. 1999. Low reproductive output in Grey-headed Flying-foxes associated with a short period of food scarcity. Australasian Bat Society Newsletter 14: 17-20. Low...

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Book

Too close for comfort: Contentious issues in human-wildlife encounters

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 2008

10.7882/9780980327229

EISBN: 978-0-9803272-2-9

Journal Articles

There is no Dingo dilemma: legislation facilitates culling, containment and conservation of Dingoes in New South Wales

Peter J. S. Fleming, Guy Ballard, Nathan Cutter

Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (3): 408–416.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.035

Published: 16 October 2020

.... 1963). Because these fences usually separate two or more holdings, they are subject to provisions of the Dividing Fences Act 1991. That Act makes no reference to Dingoes specifically or to livestock damage mitigation purposes. Rather, a person can potentially execute their General Biosecurity Duty...

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Professional kangaroo population control leads to better animal welfare, conservation outcomes and avoids waste

George R Wilson, Melanie Edwards

Australian Zoologist (2019) 40 (1): 181–202.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2018.043

Published: 01 January 2019

... per kilogram for carcasses to be rendered to meat-meal to supply pet food manufacturers. However, we regard this as maintaining kangaroos as a source of cheap bulk protein and a by-product of pest control. Populations rising For a number of reasons including predator control, provision of water, good...

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A preliminary investigation of the distribution of koalas and their potential habitat in the Tweed Shire, and implications for management

Judy Faulks

Australian Zoologist (2014) 27 (1-2): 1–13.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1991.001

Published: 17 March 2014

..."; and urban development strategies prepared by the local council should idenw land suitable for urban expansion which avoids environmentally sensitive areas. The Tweed LEP (DEP 1987) currently makes provisions for environ- mental protection of areas or features identified as being of particular habitat...

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Journal Articles

United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity

Australian Zoologist (2014) 28 (1-4): 88–103.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1992.018

Published: 17 March 2014

... among States and intergovern- mental organizations and the non-governmental sector for the conservation of biological diversity and the sustainable use of its comDonents. Acknowledging that the provisions of new and additional financial resources and appropriate access to relevant technologies can...

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Journal Articles

Mollusc conservation and the New South Wales Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 :the Recovery Program for Mitchell's Rainforest Snail Thersites mitchellae

Michael Murphy

Australian Zoologist (2014) 32 (1): 1–11.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2002.001

Published: 17 March 2014

... provision for the listing of key threatening processes, which are responsible for adversely affecting threatened species or causing additional species to become threatened, and for the identification of areas of habitat critical for the survival of threatened species. With respect to molluscan conservation...

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Journal Articles

Breeding by Barn Owls Tyto alba in artificial nest hollows established for an endangered black cockatoo in the northern wheatbelt of Western Australia

Peter R Mawson, Rick Dawson, Denis A Saunders

Australian Zoologist (2024) 44 (1): 26–34.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2024.019

Published: 26 April 2024

... been addressed by the provision of artificial nest boxes (Klein et al. 2007; Charter et al. 2010; Lambrechts et al. 2012; Wendt and Johnson 2017; Sudarmaji et al. 2021) with varying success. While the published literature includes numerous small-scale studies into the use of artificial nesting...

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Journal Articles

Australia's coastal fisheries and farmed seafood: an ecological basis for determining sustainability

Trevor J. Ward, David J. Booth, Peter G. Fairweather, John R. Ford, Gregory I. Jenkins ...

Australian Zoologist (2017) 39 (1): 3–16.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2016.016

Published: 01 December 2017

... fished for aquaculture feed and pet food. In contrast, there has been a substantial increase in farmed Australian seafood over the last 10 years, principally farmed Atlantic Salmon from Tasmania and Southern Bluefin Tuna from South Australia, although other farmed products have been either steady...

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Journal Articles

Factors influencing predation on eggs and tadpoles of the endangered Green and Golden Bell Frog Litoria aurea by the introduced Plague Minnow Gambusia holbrooki

Graham Pyke, Arthur White

Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (3): 496–505.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2000.011

Published: 17 March 2014

... aurea by Gambusia is influenced by the presence of rocks (as potential shelter), the presence of other frog species (as alternative food) and a number of variables that reflect the ratio of the number of prey available to the amount of food that would be required to satiate the fish. These experiments...

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Journal Articles

Food and movements of the Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus banksi escondidus in the Western Australian wheatbelt

Denis A. Saunders

Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (4): 960–971.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.040

Published: 21 October 2022

... in the early morning and again in the evening. In doing so, they passed over available food, to join large, non-breeding, foraging flocks. Once the birds finished breeding they foraged widely in large flocks of over 1000 birds, up to 200 km from their breeding area. The dependence on the seed...

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Journal Articles

Diet of the Lace Monitor Lizard (Varanus vadus) in south-eastern Australia

Brian Weavers

Australian Zoologist (2014) 25 (3): 83–85.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1989.007

Published: 17 March 2014

... of them (e.g. cattle, horses, rabbits and probably sheep) have become food for the lace monitor, but the provision of grazing land for these exotic animals has dramatically reduced the mature forest available in south-eastern Australia for % varius and its native prey. As well as this, there has been...

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Journal Articles

Marine Protected Areas – Developing Regulatory Frameworks for Areas beyond National Jurisdiction

Robin Warner

Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (2): 181–187.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2015.016

Published: 01 January 2018

... on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) (OSPAR 2012). Some management provisions are contained in OSPAR Recommendations for each of these areas, however, to date no cross sector management plans have been put in place although collective arrangements have been developed to consult between OSPAR, NEAFC...

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Journal Articles

Response to Comments on Bat Conservation in Australia

Leslie S. Hall

Australian Zoologist (1990) 26 (2): 46–47.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1990.107

Published: 01 June 1990

... in a bat. Nature 313: 477-79. CROME, F. H. J. AND RICHARDS, G. C., 1988. Bats and gaps: Micro- chiropteran community structure in a Queensland rain- forest. Ecology 69: 1960-69. JANZEN, D. H., 1983. Food webs: Who eats what, why, how and with what effects in a tropical forest? Pp. 167-82 in Eco- systems...

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Journal Articles

Designing marine infrastructure to restore native shellfish

D A Damodaran

Australian Zoologist (2024) 43 (4): 663–675.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2024.012

Published: 02 April 2024

..., etc.) and biotic (e.g., larval supply, food supply, and reasonable predation) conditions (Beukema and Dekker 2005). For example, when choosing sites for horse mussel (Modiolus modiolus) restoration in Europe, modelling was used to estimate larval transport capability for potential new bed sites...

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