Back From the Brink: Refining the Threatened Species Recovery Process
Sally Stephens and Stephanie Maxwell (Editors)
Australian Nature Conservation Agency, 1996
ISBN 0 949 32469 8
This is an evaluation of the threatened species recovery process based on material presented at a conference held by the Commonwealth Endangered Species Advisory Committee in December 1995
Contents
- Back from the Brink
- Keynote Address
- Priorities for Conservation
- Recovery action for threatened species: an Australian perspective
Bruce Male - Commonwealth and State government frameworks for recovery planning for threatened species and communities
David Papps - The New Zealand experience: legislation, priorities and recovery planning
Ian Govey and Janet Owen - Determining priorities for plant conservation: an economic necessity
Katrina Jensz - Conservation overviews for invertebrates and non-vascular plants and fungi: setting the scene for Recovery Plans
Tim R. New
- Recovery action for threatened species: an Australian perspective
- Recovery Plan Design
- Essentials of a good Recovery Plan
Andrew A. Burbidge - Incorporating science into recovery planning for threatened species
Christopher R. Dickman - Collaboration of science and management in endangered species recovery
Peter J. Jarman and Margaret A. Brock - Involving farmers in recovery programs
Ian C. McClintock
- Essentials of a good Recovery Plan
- Implementation of Recovery Plans: Case Studies
- Species recovery planning: some New Zealand case studies
Alan Saunders - Community involvement in the species recovery process: insights into successful partnerships
Stephanie Williams - Conservation of the endangered plant Grevillea caleyi (Proteaceae) in urban fire-prone habitats
Tony D. Auld and Judith A. Scott - Rediscovery program for the endangered plant Haloragodendron lucasii
Marita A. Sydes, Mark Williams, Rob Blackall and Tony D. Auld - Threatened by discovery: research and management of the Wollemi Pine Wollemia nobilis Jones, Hill and Allen
John Benson - Population changes from 1990 to 1995 and management of the endangered rainforest palm Ptychosperma bleeseri Burret (Arecaceae)
David T. Liddle, Stephen M. Taylor and Darren R. Larcombe - Threatened plant species management in National Parks and Wildlife Act reserves in South Australia
Richard J.P. Davies - Defining priorities for achieving practical outcomes from the genetic studies of rare plants
Rod Peakall and Marita A. Sydes - An area-based multiple species approach to threatened flora conservation and management in the Merredin area of Western Australia
Andrew Brown, David Coates, Mike Fitzgerald and Claire Welbon - Native grasslands and threatened species in the Australian Capital Territory: steps towards protection and recovery
Sarah B. Sharp and David J. Shorthouse - The Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat recovery program: trials and triumphs
Alan Horsup - Recovery of the Mala, Lagorchestes hirsutus: a 30 year unfinished journey
Kenneth A. Johnson, David F. Gibson, Donald G. Langford and Jeffrey R. Cole - Developing and implementing a Recovery Plan: the Mala recovery program
Geoff Lundie-Jenkins
- Species recovery planning: some New Zealand case studies
- Evaluation of Recovery Programs
- Reviewing recovery programs for endangered species: some considerations and recommendations
Gary N. Backhouse, Tim W. Clark and Richard L. Wallace - Down the track: a critique of recovery programs in Tasmania
Sally L. Bryant and Stephen Harris - Realism in response to the ecological performance of populations in recovery programs
Peter J. Jarman
- Reviewing recovery programs for endangered species: some considerations and recommendations
- Workshop Reports
How to obtain copies
Back from the Brink: Refining the Threatened Species Recovery Process edited by Sally Stephens and Stephanie Maxwell (ISBN 0 949324 69 8) is published by Surrey Beatty and Sons, and is available from technical bookshops across Australia for a recommended retail price of AUD $40.00.
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