... protection measure and has serious animal welfare impacts. Exclusion netting is considered the most reliable and humane method of protecting commercial crops from flying-foxes and other animals. From 2011 to 2017, the New South Wales (NSW) Government implemented the Flying-fox Netting Subsidy Program...

...Daniel Lunney; Ben Hope; Ian Shannon Our aim in this study is to provide the first ever quantitative, historical and map–based information of what fauna has been studied and recorded both outside and inside the protected areas of New South Wales (NSW), which are principally National Parks...

...Pat Hutchings; Richard Kenchington ABSTRACT Traditionally the concepts of terrestrial protected areas have been used in designating marine protected areas. We discuss the differences between marine and terrestrial protected areas and highlight the need to consider the movement of species through...

... Australian natural history reptile conservation crocodile hunting thematic analysis Protecting the unpopular ones. Conservation themes in the writings of naturalist/herpetologist, Eric Worrell Kevin Markwell Faculty of Business, Law and Arts, Southern Cross University, LISMORE, NSW. 2480...

... speciation has contributed to endemic lineages in a range of invertebrates, including snails and sedentary arthropods, and in freshwater fish and herpetofauna. Much lower endemism occurs in birds and mammals (Rix et al. 2014). Within the jarrah forest specifically, species Protected areas, conservation...

... of these threats and the role of areas based management mechanisms such as marine protected areas (MPAs) in addressing those threats. It discusses the law and policy rationale for establishing MPAs in ABNJ and some regional examples of MPA designation in the North East Atlantic, the Mediterranean, Antarctica...

...Michelle Voyer; William Gladstone ABSTRACT Marine protected areas (MPAs) are one approach, amongst many, for the protection of marine biodiversity. Although proven to be effective at protecting biodiversity and to be supported by local and wider communities, the implementation of some MPAs has been...

... the protection that marine reserves confer, because they are not threatened by processes that can be effectively managed by marine reserves. Better conservation investments are likely to be made if researchers critically evaluate basic assumptions, and design their research to address real information needs...

... © 2017 Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2017 Plenary Session 1 on the value of protected areas for fauna conservation DOI: httpsdoi.org/10.7882/AZ.2017.039 CHAIR: Pat Hutchings (AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM) I would agree with that statement, and based on my experiences at Port Stephens, I...

... © 2017 Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2017 Plenary Session 2 on the value of protected areas for fauna conservation DOI: httpsdoi.org/10.7882/AZ.2017.040 CHAIR: Dan Lunney (Royal Zoological Society of NSW). us back before the 1960s, and guess what, their popularity has increased...

... © 2017 Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2017 Plenary Session 3 on the value of protected areas for fauna conservation DOI: httpsdoi.org/10.7882/AZ.2017.041 CHAIR: MIKE CALVER (Murdoch University) to measure what s going on with dingoes, are they present and are you getting pulses...

... © 2017 Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2017 Plenary Session 4 on the value of protected areas for fauna conservation DOI: httpsdoi.org/10.7882/AZ.2017.042 CHAIR: CHRIS DICKMAN (University of Sydney). good evidence that you should need urban vegetation for other reasons. So...

...Daniel Lunney; Pat Hutchings; Chris R. Dickman ABSTRACT The Royal Zoological Society of NSW forum on the value of protected areas for fauna conservation, held in Sydney in November 2014, comprised a series of papers interlaced with a series of plenary discussions, which can be read in full...

...-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...

... constructed as a pest to farmers, a feral animal that does not belong, and vermin to be exterminated. The latest incarnation is interesting as the donkey is once again proving ‘valuable’ as the guardian animal of choice for some farmers and pastoralists seeking to protect their flocks from wild dogs Canis...

... Parks, USA. September 18-27, 1972, Proceedings. IUCN: Morges. MCNELLY, J. A. AND MILLER, K. R. (ed), 1984. National Parks, Conservation and Development: The Role of Protected Areas in Sustaining Society. Smithsonian Institution Press: Washington, DC. National Parks, Conservation and Development...