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... allowing the evaluation of land management actions. Here we report on the first systematic fauna surveys conducted on Edgbaston Reserve between 2018 and 2020. Data were analysed to understand mammal, reptile and amphibian species composition, richness, and abundance in relation to six habitat types...

...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...

...S.G. Kearney; P.L. Kern; A.S. Kutt ABSTRACT Arid and desert landscapes are characterised as boom-bust systems, and sometimes its fauna can remain cryptic or hidden. This short paper reports the results of baseline monitoring of the terrestrial fauna in the Bush Heritage Pullen Pullen reserve...

...Harry F. Recher, FRZS, AM ABSTRACT Australia's system of conservation reserves is inadequate to conserve continental biodiversity. Reserves are small, isolated, and unrepresentative of continental ecosystems to the extent that entire groups of organisms, such as nomadic and migratory birds...

... significant threats to the biota include: changed fire regimes; exotic predators, diseases and herbivores; and drought and climate change. Conservation reserves in the region were originally chosen on aesthetic appeal, often aligning poorly to modern CAR (comprehensive, adequate and representative) criteria...

...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...

.... The impact on native mammals of land-use changes and exotic species in the Bega district, New South Wales, since settlement Aust. J. Ecol. 13 67 92 New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, 1996. Seven Mile Beach National Park and Comerong Island Nature Reserve Draft Plan of Management...

...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...

...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...

... of Remnants of Native Vegetation ed by D. A. Saunders, G. W. Arnold, A. A. Burbidge and A. J . M. Hopkins. Surrey Beatty & Sons: Chipping Norton. WHITEHOUSE, J. F., 1990. Conserving What? - The basis for nature conservation reserves in New South Wales 1967- 1989. Aust. Zoo/. 26: 11 -21. Reserve selection...

...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...

...Garry Daly; Philip Craven; Jeff Bryant; Chris Senior; Michael Smith; Michael Mahony ABSTRACT Replicated systematic surveys were conducted for arboreal mammals in several reserves on the south coast of New South Wales between 1995 and 2023. Nine species were detected including the Yellow-bellied...

... or informal conservation reserves. State Forests which comprise 1.55 million hectares or 30% of the public estate within the coastal IFOA regions in New South Wales are managed for a variety of reasons including timber production, recreation, and conservation. While commonly associated with timber harvesting...

...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...