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...-conservation uses. However, I show that, even when all local biodiversity is protected whenever ecosystem services values create greater benefits from conservation compared to conversion, this may lead to poor outcomes for regional biodiversity conservation. I examine this dangerous idea by re-visiting early...

... of amphibian in the Shoalhaven Local Government Area, New South Wales Garry Daly1, Philip Craven2, Jeff Bryant3, Michael Smith4, Rachel Melrose5 and Michael Mahony6 1PO Box 3109, North Nowra 2541 Corresponding author: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 4msmith...

...Gary Opit ABSTRACT A citizen science project was begun on 11 February 1997 with a regular live-to-air wildlife talkback segment on ABC North Coast NSW Local Radio. Listeners were encouraged to phone in to report interesting observations. This public endeavour aimed to promote interest in wildlife...

..., if it occurs (e.g. Mac Nally 2000), at a local scale. Therefore local habitat and resource utilisation studies are still of value. One particular guild that has received little attention includes birds that forage by gleaning prey in the low vegetation, referred to as the low vegetation gleaners (Holmes...

... infrastructure. On the coast, the area where I have had most experience, local and sub-regional extinctions of populations of a number of threatened species are proceeding at an alarming rate. Species that appear to be most at risk are the small to medium-sized ground-dwelling and arboreal marsupials...

... recorded in 2005. A single The Piscicolid leech Austrobdella translucens, Badham, 1916: a new host record from Australian salmon, Arripis trutta (forster, 1801), and a new locality record for Yellowfin whiting, Sillago schomburgkii, Peters 1864, in South Australia Toby F. Bolton1, Craig J. Hayward2...

...Michael Murphy; John Turbill The Green-thighed Frog Litoria brevipalmata is known from scattered localities in northeast New South Wales and southern Queensland. A new record from Bundjalung National Park in New South Wales is documented, and its contribution to the understanding of the ecology...

... Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, PO Box 1967, Hurstville, New South Wales 2220. Sex ratio and frequency of osteological abnormalities in the Australian hylid froi Litoria au& from two apparently unpolluted localities in Sydney, New South Wales Allen E. Greer' and Maria Byme2...

..., the python Aspidites ramsayi (Macleay, 1882) and the elapid snake Diemenia ferox Macleay, 1882, now Oxyuranus microlepidotus (McCoy, 1878). The type locality of the two snakes is corrected from “near Fort Bourke” to James Ramsay's then property Tyndayrey. Further evidence is provided for a link between...

..., Australia 2 National Agriculture and Quarantine Inspection Authority, Papua New Guinea 3 Independent veterinarian, Australia 4 Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney Local Health District, 50 Missenden Road, Camperdown NSW 2050, Australia 5 The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Corresponding author...

... forest age, structural complexity, local food tree species diversity, history of prior koala occurrence and decreased past logging intensity. This relationship was driven primarily by breeding females, with the number of male koala calls weakly or uncorrelated with koala sightings and mapped habitat...

... undertaken at fine scales by radio-tracking and GPS-tracking, especially at night when koalas are actively browsing. Such studies reveal minor differences but substantial overlap in habitat use between the sexes. When analysing acoustic surveys, the environment needs to be assessed in the local landscapes...