...Aidan Davison; Ben Ridder Interest in urban nature has grown rapidly over recent years in Australia, and not just amongst ecologists and conservationists. Policy makers, social scientists, community groups, the media and urban residents in general have also begun to think about, represent...

... nature provides many health, wellbeing and workplace productivity benefits to city dwellers. Hence, there is an urgent need to return nature to cities not only to conserve biodiversity, but also to maintain human experiences of nature. To meet this challenge, there are currently significant global...

...David Milledge; Norman Graham; Jill Smith ABSTRACT A population of the Northern Long-nosed Potoroo Potorous tridactylus tridactylus in Tyagarah Nature Reserve on the far north coast of New South Wales was first recorded in 1985. In 1992, a cage-trapping study captured 15 individuals in the central...

.... 2014). This does not mean that reserves are not important for biodiversity conservation. Reserves are important, but need to be part of a conservation system designed following ecological principles with the goal of protecting the continental biota and integrated with comprehensive off reserve nature...

...J. F. Whitehouse With the establishment of the National Parks and Wildlife Service in New South Wales in 1967 a major programme commenced to establish a comprehensive reserve system for nature conservation as well as other purposes. As at 30 June, 1988 this system consisted of 68 National Parks...

...Steven Sass Nombinnie Nature Reserve and State Conservation Area form a large reserve system of 116,000 hectares in central western New South Wales. Systematic surveys for reptile fauna in 2003 revealed 204 individuals from 33 species from within five different vegetation communities. A review...

... knowledge of natural history and the natural environment. The book should also serve well in the armoury of more experienced biologists who may be interested or engaged on work in the Blue Mountains area. Individual species known from the area are described under the major headings: mammals, birds, reptiles...

...Klaus Henle During two herpetofaunal surveys in February and March 1985 27 species of amphibians and reptiles were found in Yathong Nature Reserve. Mallee sandridges were richer in number of specimens than mallee on flat sandy soil. Open grassland, strongly influenced by former landuse, was less...

... vegetation. Mammal survey Seven Mile Beach Comerong island Open forest Littoral rainforest Remnant vegetation Bennett, A. F., 1987. Conservation of mammals within a fragmented forest environment: the contributions of insular biogeography and autecology. Chapter 4 Pp. 41-52 in Nature...

...J. G. Garden Quanda Nature Reserve was originally established in 1963 to conserve the remnant old growth mallee vegetation and its suspected Malleefowl, Leipoa ocellata , population. This study reports on the first detailed fauna survey of the reserve since its establishment. Eleven survey...

...Allen E. Strom Whitehouse paper cuts Gordian knot Sharon Sullivan Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra My primary professional field is not nature conserva- tion, and my comments do not therefore relate to the detailed technicalities of this paper. Rather I am com- menting as someone who needs...

...J. F. Whitehouse of Lands for a couple of year and it is not difficult to under- stand why the "parks for the people" theme was dominant The tragedy seemed to me to be that in 1966 the endeavours of the Fauna Panel to set up a system of nature reserves based on the very factors which Whitehouse...

...Daniel Lunney © 1990 Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1990 EDITORIAL Nature Conservation Debate: Bats; National Parks; and State of the Nation Daniel Lunney Editor, Australian Zoologist On February 28, 1989 I listened as John Whitehouse, then the Director of National Parks...

...: a look at The Nature Conseivancy (USA). Biol. Conserv. 41: 11-37. PARKES, D. M. AND CHEAL, D. C., 1987. Vegetation. Pp. 104-41 in Report on the Ma/lee Area Review. Land Conseivation Council: Melbourne. PREssEY, R. L. AND BEDWARD, M., in press. Mapping the environment at different scales: benefits...