... Although questionnaire responses and direct feedback from residents showed that a substantial proportion of residents from a Port Macquarie retirement community found local peri-urban kangaroos to be ‘too close for comfort’, most participants indicated a preference for kangaroos remaining...

... A milestone in community participation in environmental management in New South Wales was the introduction of the Catchment Management Act 1989. To oversee the strategic planning and implementation of natural resource management, the Act provided for a network of committees across the State...

... impacts so that any regulatory measures are effective. There is a need for sound scientific research incorporating short-term tests and long-term monitoring of the whale watching industry, participants and target species to inform and support management decisions. Research should focus on the behavioural...

... for State Forest in NSW. Over that time I participated in the Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis issues of the 1980s and 1990s in the Pacific Northwest, the rainforest debate in Queensland and NSW in the early 1980s, and establishing early work on the distribution and abundance of vertebrates in southern NSW...

... As with many public debates, the debate on climate change has a number of participants whose activities are influential, secretive and unethical. In the climate change debate, some fossil fuel corporations have funded apparently unrelated bodies which claim to have some scientific expertise...

... the need to make conservation equitable by providing incentives to encourage private landholders to retain habitat and participate more fully in conservation initiatives. In order to involve the whole community in conserving habitat for Grey-headed Flying-foxes, the community also needs to be made aware...

... the critics are private individuals or non-commercial entities. Termed SLAPPs, strategic lawsuits against public participation, are meritless defamation or damages actions designed to intimidate and punish scientists and others for speaking in opposition to commercial interests. Such cases are well known...