... reserve system within forests and to encourage more conservative land-use practices in forests outside of parks and reserves. Without the adoption of these steps in the short term, it is unlikely that the ecological integrity of many forest ecosystems will be maintained in the long term. As a consequence...

... practices are having major impacts on this temporally dynamic archipelago of unique refugia and comparatively few patches remain. These thickets are not renowned for their vertebrate faunas but are inhabited by relatively diverse invertebrate communities including many undocumented land snails. Land snails...

..., its mesic communities. The intimate association of land snails with rainforest, and vegetation types in general, suggests that they have strong predictive value in identifying moist refugia and significant areas for biodiversity conservation. While land snails have a number of practical advantages...

... for insect specimens for use in research, education, natural history documentaries, personal interests and various other applications. The farm operates under recognized and approved ecologically sustainable principles and practices. The Australian Insect Farm is essentially a conservation-based approach...

... The revolution advocated in this forum is that Australia move away from its European farming practices, as suggested by Australian Museum Director Michael Archer and others, and utilise native plants and animals on an ecologically sustainable basis. For example, developing a consumer market...

... This chapter reviews recent developments in the economics of the environment with special reference to forest fauna. While economics can make a substantial contribution to broad land-use decisions, it is less useful in day-to-day management decisions. Efficient allocation of resources...

... soils, irrespective of land tenure, if continued, will probably have the most damaging of impacts on Australia's native fauna. In that same context the evidence indicates that whilst such land clearing continues, concern over threats to our native fauna by current forestry practices would...

... of a general reduction in the extent of old-growth forest. Species targeted for management emphasis should change with each management practice, and as the requirements for high priority species are met Disputes about the adequacy of biological data to make land-use decisions should centre on whether...

... sclerophyll habitats were under-represented in National Parks in SEQ prior to the Forest Agreement (at 9% of pre-European extent) and remain so relative to other habitat types (at 20% of pre-European extent). Timber harvesting had traditionally been practised using the relatively conservative single-tree...

...-term viability of urban wetlands relies on the ability of managers to balance aesthetics and conservation on the one hand, with recreational land use issues on the other. Next to the management of human recreation, the management of problem fauna, including native species that have the potential...

... legislation, including the regulation of forestry on private lands. With the Comprehensive, Representative and Adequate reserve system now in place, and sophisticated fauna protocols in use in forest operations, we can be optimistic about the conservation of the forest fauna providing long-term research...