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Australian Zoologist (2014) 28 (1-4): 28–36.
Published: 17 March 2014
...). Biodiversity Legislation, Vegetation, Habitat Environmental and Planning Law Journal 7 175 80 COLE, D. N., 1992. Wilderness management: has it come of age? Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 45(3): 360-64 (May-June 1990). Wilderness management: has it come of age? Journal of Soil and Water...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 32 (1): 139–149.
Published: 17 March 2014
... conservation. Chpt. 11 in A Natural Legacy: Ecology in Australia (2nd edition), edited by H. F. Recher, D. Lunney and I. Dunn. Pergamon Press, Rushcutters Bay NSW. Mackey, B. G., Lesslie, R. G., Lindenmayer, D. B. and Nix, H. A. 1998. Wilderness and its place in nature conservation in Australia. Pacific...
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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1999
10.7882/RZSNSW.1999.053
EISBN: 0-9586085-1-2
... The Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area is one of largest and least inhabited of the world heritage areas where natural processes and ecological systems can continue to occur in a relatively undisturbed state. It provides important habitat for 13 invertebrate species listed under...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1993
10.7882/RZSNSW.1993.043
EISBN: 0-9599951-8-8
... Areas declared as wilderness provide an opportunity for biological conservation through their large size, lack of modification, restriction of access and management with the primary aim of maintaining natural systems and genetic diversity. Wilderness areas may be impacted by global change...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 26 (3-4): 130–141.
Published: 17 March 2014
... favoured a route which would have divided the two major wilderness areas of the Gippsland forests in Victoria by creating a fenced impenetrable barrier to some wildlife. Planning authorities need to address the impacts of fragmentation of natural habitats by such developments. Although it is difficult...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2013
10.7882/FS.2013.004
EISBN: 978-0-9874309-1-5
..., and on wilderness, threatened species, and alien (exotic) species. The result is a fragmented reserve system that cannot conserve continental biodiversity in the long-term, and inadequate funding for less charismatic species or preventing common species from becoming threatened. A whole-of-landscape approach...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2010
10.7882/FS.2010.013
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-3-6
... Heritage Wilderness. Sydney Harbour alone has a fish fauna of nearly 600 species. Almost all of the free-living vertebrates found in the Region are native to Australia, with fewer than 40 species being introductions to the continent. To a considerable extent, the Region owes the biological richness of its...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2002
10.7882/FS.2002.010
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-3-4
... and wilderness, these are limited options which will achieve little in the way of conserving Australia's flora and fauna. It is far more important to end land clearing and habitat fragmentation in terrestrial environments and to cease building dams, diverting rivers and trawling for fish in aquatic environments...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1999
10.7882/RZSNSW.1999.015
EISBN: 0-9586085-1-2
... Epigaeic (active above the ground) arthropods were collected in late summer from 27 Buttongrass moorland sites of different ages. The sites formed a chronosequence ranging from one month to 64 years since the last fire and were located in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. Sampling...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1999
10.7882/RZSNSW.1999.044
EISBN: 0-9586085-1-2
... and behaviours. Yet the natural landscape is rapidly changing to one of a patchwork mosaic. At one extreme of triage, it is essential to maintain wilderness as a habitat source. At the other extreme, there are landscapes that are so degraded physically and genetically that they must be left for later attention...
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2014) 28 (1-4): 37–38.
Published: 17 March 2014
... A commentary on Larry Carter's paper Sue Walker NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Grafton, NSW 2460 Larry Carter has excelled in outlining wilderness and biodiversity from a legal, and international and Australian viewpoint. He also provides a useful map of wilderness in New South Wales. I provide some...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 32 (1): 112–138.
Published: 17 March 2014
... speaker address to the NSW NCC AGM on 28 October 2001(attached is a slightly modified version suitable for AZ). His priorities for nature conservation and, in particular, his view that wilderness is an impediment to conserving biodiversity, generated strong reactions. It is a debate that has many...
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Australian Zoologist (2013) 36 (3): 321–331.
Published: 14 March 2013
... IUCN UNESCO National Parks idea wilderness nature conservation World Heritage Convention [Addison Report] [UK] Report of the National Parks Committee Parliamentary Papers 1930-31, Cmd 3851, xvi, 283-414. Anon. 1904.Emu, 4(2) (October 1904), 84. Australia 2012a. Department...
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Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (2): 257–271.
Published: 01 January 2018
... efforts. National parks New South Wales Biodiversity conservation politics ideology New South Wales National Parks Advisory Council Scientific Committee advising the Minister for Lands Wilderness Long–term ecological research reserve selection WildCountry 2017 257 Introduction A large body...
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Australian Zoologist (2012) 35 (4): 973–976.
Published: 29 January 2012
...: an Analysis of its incidence and review of the pathology and management of crocodilian attacks in general. Wilderness Environ Med, 16(3):143-159. Crocodile attack in Australia: an Analysis of its incidence and review of the pathology and management of crocodilian attacks in general Wilderness Environ Med...
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Australian Zoologist (2013) 36 (2): 201–208.
Published: 07 February 2013
... 2003). Owing to the lack of comprehensive assessment of its impacts, especially over long term use (White et al. 2006), mountain biking remains restricted and/or banned in some ecologically fragile areas, such as parts of the Cairngorm Mountains in Scotland (Hanley et al. 2002) and wilderness zones...
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Australian Zoologist (2012) 35 (4): 1005–1010.
Published: 29 January 2012
... process, for by being out of touch with nature, we risk destroying it. The author considers the role that the environment movement has had in separating humans and wilderness by idealising the latter as authentically pristine or untouched . She argues that this separation is founded on a dichotomy...
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Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (2): 371–396.
Published: 01 January 2018
... contested, and even excluded when other values, such as a wilderness designation, present a reason to limit access to researchers (e.g. Recher and Lunney 2003). This paper presents my interpretation of the history of this contested ideal. Specifically, I argue that protected areas are a magnificent place...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 28 (1-4): 10–15.
Published: 17 March 2014
..., the case of a dispute over the proposed construction of a dam designed for power generation and that will flood a valley at presently partly wilderness area and partly devoted to agricultural uses. Confronting any dispute resolution mechanism will be a host of diffuse and debatable issues...