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Australian Zoologist (2017) 39 (1): 52–56.
Published: 01 December 2017
... mammals. In general this occurs under governance regimes that fail to provide any practical incentives to users to limit their exploitation and develop sustainable management. However, use of wild species for food alongside other values can underpin successful models of robust and sustainable management...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2003
10.7882/FS.2003.005
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-6-5
... the case for a marine implementation of multiple use management characterised by a core component of highly protected reference or sanctuary sites within a larger ecosystem-scale area managed for verifiably sustainable use and providing effective buffering for highly protected coresites. ...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 33 (3): 398–409.
Published: 17 March 2014
... to assess the state of play. The kangaroo industry has, after more than 30 years of operation, a legitimate claim to being sustainable. But where does it stand in relation to current international thinking on sustainable use and in relation to the broader conservation goals for Australia's rangeland...
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Australian Zoologist (2019) 40 (1): 181–202.
Published: 01 January 2019
... and its strategy to be carbon neutral by 2030. In 2017 Australia's 40 million kangaroos were almost exclusively on the properties of MLA and wool industry ratepayers. This paper discusses the benefits of sustainable use of kangaroos and asserts a need for them to be realised. Changing the status...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2002
10.7882/FS.2002.004
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-3-4
... number of landholders are benefiting from kangaroos, either by selling access to shooters/processors or through direct involvement as licensed operators. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has supported the concept of achieving conservation benefits from the sustainable use...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (2): 383–430.
Published: 14 October 2011
... of population density and that the current harvest strategy (15-17%) appears to be achieving its current twin goals of sustainable use of natural resources and the maintenance of viable populations of the four harvested species. Thus the debate continues. However, this history of the debate on the commercial...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2002
10.7882/FS.2002.003
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-3-4
... catastrophically. Environmental and economic necessity urges us to consider all potential strategies that could turn this around, whether or not they fly in the face of conservative or minority group prejudices. Sustainable use of native wildlife, in urban as well as rural Australia, has the potential to increase...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (2): 181–187.
Published: 01 January 2018
... and the Sargasso Sea. Finally it reviews global initiatives in the United Nations to develop a more integrated and cross sectoral framework for conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in ABNJ including the designation of a representative network of MPAs in these largely neglected areas of the ocean...
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Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (2): 214–227.
Published: 01 January 2018
... assessing their interplay with newer concerns. This experience illustrates that society can design management systems to conserve biodiversity and ensure long–term sustainable use of renewable resources, but that the political will is often lacking. 214 2017 Introduction The south western corner...
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Australian Zoologist (2019) 40 (1): 218–229.
Published: 01 January 2019
...) - The role of the IUCN in sustainable use of wildlife for conservation and livelihoods. Stephanie Hing (RSPCA), Jordan O. Hampton, and Troy. J. Gibson - Animal welfare and the killing of wildlife by captive bolt in Australia. (Paper included post forum.) Denis A Saunders (CSIRO) and Alison Doley - Culling...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1999
10.7882/RZSNSW.1999.007
EISBN: 0-9586085-1-2
... The conservation of biological diversity is a foundation of ecologically sustainable management. To assess sustainability with regard to biodiversity conservation, forest managers are using forest type as a surrogate for ecosystem and species diversity. This paper investigates the applicability...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1999
10.7882/RZSNSW.1999.069
EISBN: 0-9586085-1-2
... for insect specimens for use in research, education, natural history documentaries, personal interests and various other applications. The farm operates under recognized and approved ecologically sustainable principles and practices. The Australian Insect Farm is essentially a conservation-based approach...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (2): 160–165.
Published: 14 October 2011
... in fine tuning that strategy and is most usefully incorporated as adaptive management where it can address the key questions on how populations respond to harvesting. harvest management Macropus rufus sustainable use demography Bilton, A.D. Croft, D.B. 2004. Lifetime reproductive...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2002
10.7882/FS.2002.007
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-3-4
... to conservation if undertaken in an ecologically sustainable manner. Bioprospecting can provide financial benefits, but these are unlikely to advance natural resource management unless contractual agreements granting access to biodiversity specify that a percent of the fees and royalties must be used to fund...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (1): 309–316.
Published: 17 March 2014
... not be overconfident about our ability to manage harvests sustainably, particularly when social and political issues are important. There is, however, one very significant difference between managing fish populations and managing populations of large terrestrial vertebrates, such a s kangaroos. Most of the data used...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 28 (1-4): 88–103.
Published: 17 March 2014
..., cultural, sharing equitably benefits arising from the use recreational and aesthetic values of biological of traditional knowledge, innovations and diversity and its components, oractices relevant to the conservation of bio- logical diversity and the sustainable use of its Conscious also of the importance...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2007
10.7882/FS.2007.048
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-0-5
... is critical to the development of long-term initiatives for the sustainability of rivers and their dependent wetlands and biota. The power and influence of policy functions of conservation bureaucracies is contrasted with the importance of scientific information but relative ineffectiveness of science. I...
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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2002
10.7882/9780958608534
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-3-4
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2003
10.7882/FS.2003.007
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-6-5
... being mainly dominated by government to a government-community partnership. It has resulted in the need to reassess the ways in which scientific findings and technical information are communicated to, and understood by, members of these committees to achieve sustainable outcomes. Two examples from...
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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2012
10.7882/FS.2012.046
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-8-1
... Past research on dingoes Canis lupus dingo indicated that ‘pure’ populations were threatened by hybridisation with domestic dogs, C. l. familiaris. Other work showed that methods of control affected their social systems. Understanding the ecology of dingoes can help to engender the use...