FUTURE GUARANTEED? VICTORIA’S THREATENED SPECIES
Thursday 2nd November 2006
A one-day conference presented by the Environment Defenders Office Victoria in conjunction with the Threatened Species Network
It is almost 20 years since Victoria’s Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 was introduced. Is the Act working? Is it up to the task of ‘guaranteeing’ threatened species in Victoria in the future?
Topics included:
- Listing criteria, uncertainty and climate change;
- Community perspectives;
- Threatened species and a vision for 2020 – the Biodiversity and Land Health White Paper
- The interaction of the FFG Act and planning schemes
- Recent developments in NSW
- Extinction in the suburbs: can we avoid it?
- DSE ‘Actions for Biodiversity Conservation’ database
- Threatened species and the big picture
Presentations (click to view PDFs of slide presentations)
- Professor Mark Burgman, School of Botany, University of Melbourne (PDF, 749KB)
- Karen Alexander, Victoria National Parks Association and “Victoria Naturally”
- Dr Sarah Bekessy, School of Global Studies, Social Science & Planning RMIT (PDF, 1.95MB)
- Georgia Garrard, RMIT
- David Baker-Gabb, Red-Tailed Black Cockatoo Recovery Team, DSE (PDF, 795KB)
- Richard Hughes, Wild Country Campaigner, The Wilderness Society (PDF, 1.20MB)
- Annette Jones, Solicitor, EDO Victoria (PDF, 97KB)
- Ray Maino, Threatened Ecosystems Network (PDF, 105KB)
- Jeff Smith, Director, EDO NSW (PDF, 117KB)
- Brendan Sydes, Principal Solicitor, EDO Victoria (PDF, 204KB)
- Andrew Walker, Lawyers for Forests, Accredited Specialist in Planning and Environmental Law
Click here to see original conference information (PDF, 56KB)