Australia's National Vegetation Framework up for comment

This draft is a strategic national policy framework, aimed at guiding management decisions that affect native vegetation in all jurisdictions and all sectors of the community. When finalised, this framework will replace the 1999 National Framework for Management and Monitoring of Australia's Native Vegetation.

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VIC Wildlife Research Symposium, Deakin University 5 Feb

WILDLIFE RESEARCH AT DEAKIN A CELEBRATION

5TH FEB 2010 - DEAKIN UNIVERSITY-BURWOOD CAMPUS

You're invited to a special one-day symposium to celebrate the
contribution of research students to understanding and conserving
Australia's wildlife. This symposium recognises the outstanding
support of the Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment towards post-
graduate research.

Join us for a stimulating day of sharing new information on threatened
species, ecosystems and wildlife conservation. Topics include:
Keynote: Wildlife conservation in human-dominated landscapes: ecology
of the threatened Squirrel Glider (Rodney van der Ree)

- Conservation ecology of the endangered Mallee Emu-wren
- Large forest owls and small mammal decline
- Widespread but not immune: the Bush Rat in a fragmented landscape
- Bird conservation in agricultural environments: role of landscape pattern
- Where exactly do ground-foraging woodland birds forage?
- Apiarists reveal long-term ecological trends
- Post-fire succession of small mammals in the Anglesea region
- A blue outlook for estuarine copepods and larval fish
- DNA fingerprinting of the Powerful Owl
- Foraging behaviour in female Australian Fur Seals
- Trophic relationships of Bass Strait seabirds

Date: 9:00-16:30, Friday 5th February 2010.
Location: Deakin University, Burwood. (Lecture Theatre 12)
Lunch, morning & afternoon tea free. Onsite parking available (c $5)

Registration essential: RSVP Robyn Cook Robyn.Cook@deakin.edu.au
by 1st February 2010
Further info: Mike Weston (Mike.Weston@deakin.edu.au)
Andrew Bennett (Andrew.Bennett@deakin.edu.au)