...Georgette Leah Burns Using Fraser Island in Queensland and Penguin Island in Western Australia as study areas, this paper examines changing management policies and practices with regards to human-animal interactions in wildlife tourism settings. In particular, the shifting relationships between...

... in a piecemeal fashion, and we provide examples of flying-foxes being represented in a range of formats, including museum and photography exhibitions, public artwork and street décor, books, preschool and school education, wildlife-based tourism and community events. However, there remains paucity in flying...

... with natural populations plus four unoccupied islands received historical translocations as early as the 1920s and 1930s as a conservation tool or to boost tourism. Currently, 7 of the 17 islands still have koalas. For future research, the paper raises the important question about whether some Queensland...

...Linda Behrendorff Canids across the world are involved in negative interactions between humans and their interests, with numerous examples of conflict management. K’gari (Fraser Island) and its dingo population are well known for the human-dingo conflict in the tourism and residential scenes...

... substantially weakened the ability to protect Leadbeater's Possum, and (5) overlooked the array of forest values beyond timber production (such as water and tourism) and which make a greater contribution to the economy. Our analyses suggest that populations of Leadbeater's Possum are undergoing a substantial...

... 2000; Chiu and Kriwoken 2003; Cessford 1995). The increasing popularity and associated economic potential for destination mountain biking tourism has been widely acknowledged. For example, US locations such as Moab (Utah) and Fruita (Colorado) each offer hundreds of kilometres of single track bike...

... the historical, social and geographical factors that gave rise to a practice that was peculiar to the holidaymakers of this time and place. Turtles Turtle-riding Great Barrier Reef Tourism History de Rougemont Anonymous ca. 1908. “Australian Ornithologists”. (Collection of black and white...

... Mammals: Fisheries, Tourism and Management Issues, edited by N. Gales, M. Hindell and R. Kirkwood. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, VIC. Marine Mammals: Fisheries, Tourism and Management Issues 62 99 Hamilton, N. and Cocks, D. 1996. Coastal growth and the environment. Pp. 182-191 in Population...

... collectors of our fossils. This makes fossils relevant in today s museum collections, not only as fossil specimens with intrinsic scientific data, but also as cultural relicts, part of our early settlement history and often particularly relevant both in cultural and tourism values to the the various regional...

... Government, Department of Environment and Heritage. Burns, G.L. 2006. The fascination of fur and feathers: managing human-animal interactions in wildlife tourism settings. Australian Zoologist. 33(4):446-457. The fascination of fur and feathers: managing human-animal interactions in wildlife tourism...

... settlement, Aboriginal people were the custodians of this rich diversity of native ecosystems. European settlement began in 1860, with present day land use varying from agriculture and grazing in the west, to a concentration of urban and tourism in the south-east centred on the townships of Tewantin...