... and other world heritage values remain unknown. Here, we summarise the 2019/20 wildfire impacts on key sites set aside for, or identified as being important for, biodiversity, with specific reference to nationally designated protected areas, World Heritage Listings, and Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs). We...

...Melinda J. Laidlaw; Harry B. Hines; Rhonda I. Melzer; Tracey B. Churchill ABSTRACT Bushfire severity mapping and analysis for Queensland’s Gondwana Rainforests World Heritage Area properties following wildfires in 2019/20 was found to under-predict the ecological impact within closed-canopy...

...Peter Smith; Judy Smith ABSTRACT We have investigated the impact of the unprecedented drought, heatwaves and fires of 2019–20 on a threatened arboreal marsupial, the Greater Glider ( Petauroides volans ), in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, an area of over one million hectares...

... in the north (Figures 1 and 2), with the remainder currently dominated by oceanic rainforest (Keith 2004). The Lord Howe Island Group of islands, comprising the main island and small outliers, was listed on the UNESCO World Heritage Register in 1982 (DECC 2007). Removing a threatened apex predator from...

...Paul Adam ABSTRACT The thirtieth anniversary of the nomination of New South Wales rainforests for World Heritage listing provided an opportunity to reflect on the process by which the nomination came about. I discuss the development of ideas about ‘heritage’, as it applies to the natural...

... Assessment, Elura Base Metal Project, Cobar, New South Wales TIDEMANN, C. R., 1985. The mammal fauna of the Willandra Lakes World Heritage area of New South Wales. Unpublished report to the Dept. of Environment and Planning. New South Wales. WAKEFIELD, N. A., 1966. Mammals of the Blandowski...

... with the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, west of Sydney, was surveyed on foot two to four days a week, typically soon after dawn. Over the period a total of 86 reptiles that represented 20 species: 38% of the lizard and 56% of snake species known from the area were collected as road kills due...

... to understand the threat this invasion may pose to the unique biodiversity of this World Heritage Area and attempt to mitigate the threat. cane toad Bufo marinus Border Ranges World Heritage rainforest frog Alford, R.A., L. Schwarzkopf, G. Brown, B. Phillips, and Shine, R. 2006...

... of the NSW Western Plains Cunninghamia 9 383 450 Boles, W.E. and McAllan, I.A.W. 1985. An inventory of the birds of the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Region. Ornithological Section, Australian Museum, Sydney. An inventory of the birds of the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Region Breed, B...

...S.G. Kearney; P.L. Kern; A.S. Kutt ABSTRACT Arid and desert landscapes are characterised as boom-bust systems, and sometimes its fauna can remain cryptic or hidden. This short paper reports the results of baseline monitoring of the terrestrial fauna in the Bush Heritage Pullen Pullen reserve...

... Cercartetus nanus Renae Hockey¹, Lachlan Wilmott2, Lachlan Hall3 and George Madani4 ¹Office of Environment & Heritage, NSW, Australia. Email: [email protected] 2Office of Environment & Heritage, NSW, Australia 3School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW...

... field studies and datasets Four decades of research and monitoring the populations of kangaroos in New South Wales: one of the best long-term datasets in Australia Daniel Lunney1, Brad Purcell2, Steve McLeod3, Gordon Grigg4, Tony Pople5, and Steve Wolter2 1 Office of Environment and Heritage NSW...

... of the fauna records in the Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) Atlas of NSW Wildlife, and analysed the use of Scientific Licences issued by OEH for fauna research for 3.5 years to mid–2014. We found that the distribution and the number of Scientific Licences within protected areas show a heavy bias...

... layer.Office of Environment and Heritage, Hurstville. Kerle, A. 2001. ‘Possums the Brushtails, Ringtails and Greater Glider’. (University of New South Wales Press: Sydney). Possums the Brushtails, Ringtails and Greater Glider Lindenmayer, D.B. 1997. Differences in the biology and ecology...

... and Heritage: Brisbane. Buckland, S. T., Anderson, D. R., Burnham, K. P. and Laake, J. L., 1993. Distance Sampling. Chapman and Hall: London. Distance Sampling Caughley, G. J. and Grigg, G. C., 1982. Numbers and distribution of kangaroos in the Queensland pastoral zone. Aust. Wildl. Res. 9: 365...