"Written in an informal and engaging style, Saving the Earth as a Career is an ideal resource for students and professionals pursuing a career in conservation. The book explores the major skills needed to become an effective conservation professional by offering useful advice on a range of topics. Chapters include: Is this the right career for you? Designing a program of study Designing and executing a project Attending confere ..."
"Long-term monitoring programs are fundamental to understanding the natural environment and managing major environmental problems. Yet they are often done very poorly and ineffectively. This second edition of the highly acclaimed Effective Ecological Monitoring describes what makes monitoring programs successful and how to ensure that long-term monitoring studies persist.The book has been fully revised and updated but remains concise, il ..."
"Australia’s nature is exceptional, wonderful and important. But much has been lost, and the ongoing existence of many species now hangs by a thread. Against a relentless tide of threats to our biodiversity, many Australians, and government and non-government agencies, have devoted themselves to the challenge of conserving and recovering plant and animal species that now need our help to survive. This dedication has been rewarded with so ..."
"Millions of hectares of temperate woodland and billions of trees have been cleared from Australia’s agricultural landscapes. This has allowed land to be developed for cropping and grazing livestock but has also had significant environmental impacts, including erosion, salinity and loss of native plant and animal species.Restoring Farm Woodlands for Wildlife focuses on why restoration is important and describes best practices approaches ..."
"Monitoring is integral to all aspects of policy and management for threatened biodiversity. It is fundamental to assessing the conservation status and trends of listed species and ecological communities. Monitoring data can be used to diagnose the causes of decline, to measure management effectiveness and to report on investment. It is also a valuable public engagement tool. Yet in Australia, monitoring threatened biodiversity is not al ..."
"An increasing number of Australians want to be assured that the food and fiber being produced there have been grown and harvested in an ecologically sustainable way. Ecologically sustainable farming conserves the array of species that are integral to key ecological processes such as pollination, seed dispersal, natural pest control and the decomposition of waste.Wildlife Conservation in Farm Landscapes communicates new scientific inform ..."
"Based on 19 years of long-term research in temperate agricultural south-eastern Australia, this book addresses practical questions such as what, where and how much to plant, ways to manage plantings and how plantings change over time."
"Karen Gair was instrumental in helping raise funding for our work from several
important philanthropic institutions. ... Foster, Phil Gibbons, Nicole Hansen, Karen
Ikin, Geoffrey Kay, Adrian Manning, Rebecca Montague-Drake, Alessio Mortelliti,
..."
"Funding and other support has come from the South West Conservation Council,
Shire of Augusta-Margaret River, Lower Blackwood Land Conservation District
Committee, National Threatened Species Network, South West Catchment
Council, WA State Natural Resource Management, Perth Zoo and the
Department of Parks and Wildlife. Scientific input and advice has been driven by
academic researchers such as Don Driscoll, Simon Conroy, Grant Ward ..."
"Ecology, Conservation and Management Damian Michael, David Lindenmayer ...
have been proposed to minimise the impact of agricultural activities on the land –
land sharing and land sparing.6 Land sharing aims to integrate biodiversity
conservation and food production on the same land, usually by adopting wildlife
friendly farming practices such as retaining patches of natural habitat, reducing
stocking rates and minimising the use o ..."
"Some culturally significant sites that are publically accessible include the
Finchley engravings in Yengo National Park and Bulgandry engravings in
Brisbane Water National Park. The image pictured above shows an engraving of
a small macropod etched ... In north-east Victoria, one art site depicts an image of
a Thylacine, a species that is considered to have become extinct on the mainland
~2000 years ago. Some of the most culturally ..."
"tools others field in are are some well still of established being these explored
technologies and keep (e.g. improving mesh (e.g. biosensing networks (e.g. of
radio-tracking networks). sensors). Biomedical Australia collars), is while leading
the technologies DNA Finally, barcoding, advances are also environmental in
computing being incorporated and DNA processing analysis into the and
algorithms conservation next generation furth ..."
"In particular, I acknowledge personnel from state and Commonwealth
government agencies (especially those from threatened species units and parks
and wildlife districts), local governments and regional natural resource
management. Others include World Wide Fund for Nature, BirdLife Australia,
Recovery Team members, Forest Practices Authority, Bruny Island Environment
Network, research scientists at the Australian National University ..."
"Thanks to the many colleagues who assessed monitoring adequacy for
individual or multiple species: Martin Asmus, Steve Beatty, Chris Bice, Steve
Brooks, Gavin Butler, Rhys Coleman, Brendan Ebner, Iain Ellis, Rob Freeman,
Scott Hardie, Bill Humphreys, Adam Kerezsy, Peter Kind, John Koehn, Wayne
Koster, Peter Kyne, Jarod Lyon, Dave Morgan, Luke Pearce, Tarmo Raadik, Zeb
Tonkin, Daniel Stoessel and Peter Unmack. Thanks to the ASFB Thr ..."
"PLoS One 9, e107126. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0107126 Keith H, Lindenmayer
DB, Mackey BG, Blair D, Carter L, ... Available at: https://docs.education.gov.au/
system/files/doc/other/ncris_project_reviews_final_report_web.pdf Krebs ... Lamb
EG, Bayne E, Holloway G, Schieck J, Soutin S, Herbers J, Haughland DL (2009)
Indices for monitoring biodiversity change: are some more effective than others."
"Carpet Pythons are also commonly kept as pets, and the new 'designer' morphs
of various colour variants that are being produced by breeders around the world
make them an extremely sought after species in the pet trade. Even in the wild,
Carpet Pythons vary in colour and body pattern within and between different
populations. Pythons on the southeast coast of Australia are often olive to black
with a series of white or yellow diamond ..."
"Biological Invasions 11, 171–181. doi:10.1007/s10530-008-9222-5. 85. Fischer J
, Lindenmayer DB (2002) Small patches can be valuable for biodiversity
conservation: two case studies on birds in southeastern Australia. Biological
Conservation 106, 129–136. doi:10.1016/S0006-3207(01)00241-5. 86. Manning
AD, Cunningham RB, Lindenmayer DB (2013) Bringing forward the benefits of
coarse woody debris in ecosystem recovery under different le ..."