Recovering Australian Threatened Species

Professor Stephen Garnett (Charles Darwin University) is an authority on the conservation of threatened birds. Peter Latch (Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy) has many years of experience within government protected area management, biodiversity planning and threatened species conservation agencies, and currently facilitates national recovery planning efforts for many Australian threatened species. Professor David Lindenmayer (The Australian National University) has undertaken extensive research and monitoring, and helped shaped management, to conserve many components of Australian biodiversity, including for some of Australia’s most threatened animal species. Professor John Woinarski (Charles Darwin University), has had long involvement in research, management and policy development for Australian biodiversity, with particular interest in the conservation of threatened species.

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List of contributors

1: Turning threatened species around – celebrating what we have done well

Stephen T. Garnett, Peter Latch, David B. Lindenmayer and John C.Z. Woinarski

2: Recovery of Australian subpopulations of humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae

Peter L. Harrison and John C. Z. Woinarski

3: Eradication of invasive species on Macquarie Island to restore the natural ecosystem

Keith Springer

4: Management of seabird bycatch leads to sustainable fisheries and seabird populations

Barry Baker and Graham Robertson

5: Mary’s Famous Five: a story of connection, commitment and community in the recovery of threatened aquatic species in the Mary River catchment, Queensland

Tanzi Smith and Marilyn Connell

6: Spiny rice-flower – small, unassuming but with many friends

Vanessa Craigie, Debbie Reynolds, Neville Walsh, Steve Mueck, Liz James, Dale Tonkinson and Pauline Rudolph

7: Saving the Pygmy Bluetongue Lizard

Michael C. Bull and Mark N. Hutchinson

8: Malleefowl: answering the big questions that guide all malleefowl management

Sharon Gillam, Tim Burnard and Joe Benshemesh

9: From the brink of extinction: successful recovery of the glossy black-cockatoo on Kangaroo Island

Karleah Berris, Michael Barth, Trish Mooney, Lynn Pedler, David Paton, Martine Kinloch, Peter Copley, Anthony Maguire, Gabriel Crowley and Stephen T. Garnett

10: Science, community and commitment underpin the road to recovery for the red-tailed black-cockatoo

Vicki-Jo Russell, Richard Hill, Tim Burnard, Bronwyn Perryman, Peter Copley, Kerry Gilkes, Martine Maron, David Baker-Gabb, Rachel Pritchard and Paul Koch

11: Collaborative commitment to a shared vision: recovery efforts for noisy scrub-birds and western ground parrots

Allan Burbidge, Sarah Comer and Alan Danks

12: Back from the brink – again: The decline and recovery of the Norfolk Island green parrot (Cyanoramphus cookii)

Luis Ortiz-Catedral, Raymond Nias, James Fitzsimons, Samantha Vine and Margaret Christian

13: Progress in the conservation of populations of the eastern bristlebird from central coastal New South Wales and Jervis Bay Territory

David B. Lindenmayer, Chris MacGregor and Nick Dexter

14: Tasmania’s forty-spotted pardalote: a woodland survivor

Sally Bryant

15: Broadscale feral predator and herbivore control for yellow-footed rock-wallabies Petrogale xanthopus ssp. xanthopus: improved resilience for plants and animals = Bounceback

Robert Brandle, Trish Mooney and Nicki de Preu

16: Recovering the mountain pygmy-possum at Mt Blue Cow and Mt Buller

L.S. Broome, D. Heinze and M. Schroder

17: Wild orchids: saving three endangered orchid species in southern New South Wales

Helen P. Waudby, Matt Cameron, Geoff Robertson, Rhiannon Caynes and Noushka Reiter

18: Population enhancement plantings help save the Tumut grevillea (Grevillea wilkinsonii)

John Briggs and Dave Hunter

19: The spiny daisy: the disappearance and re-emergence of a unique Australian shrub

Doug Bickerton, Erica Rees, Tim Field, Amelia Hurren and Christophe Tourenq

20: The path to recovery for the ‘extinct’ Lord Howe Island phasmid Dryococelus australis

Hank Bower, Nicholas Carlile, Rohan Cleave, C. Haselden, Dean Hiscox and L. O’Neill

21: Against the flow: The remarkable recovery of the trout cod in the Murray-Darling Basin

Jarod P. Lyon, Mark Lintermans and John D. Koehn

22: Underbelly – the tale of the threatened white-bellied frog (Geocrinia alba)

Manda Page, Kay Bradfield and Kim Williams

23: Western Swamp Tortoise Pseudemydura umbrina: slow and steady wins the race

Gerald Kuchling, Andrew Burbidge, Manda Page and Craig Olejnik

24: Twenty-five years of helmeted honeyeater conservation: a government-community partnership poised for recovery success

Dan Harley, Peter Menkhorst, Bruce Quin, Robert Anderson, Sue Tardif, Karina Cartwright, Neil Murray and Merryn Kelly

25: Bringing back Warru: return of the black-footed rock-wallaby to the APY Lands

John Read, Peter Copley, Matt Ward, Ethan Dagg, Liberty Olds, David Taggart and Rebecca West

26: Recovery of the mainland subspecies of eastern barred bandicoot

Richard Hill, Amy Coetsee (nee Winnard) and Duncan Sutherland

27: Arid Recovery; a successful conservation partnership

Katherine E. Moseby, Peter Copley, David C. Paton and John L. Read

28: Effective conservation of critical weight range mammals: reintroduction projects of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy

John Kanowski, David Roshier, Michael Smith and Atticus Fleming

29: The contribution of captive-breeding in zoos to the conservation of Australia's threatened fauna

Dan Harley, Peter R. Mawson, Liberty Olds, Michael McFadden and Carolyn Hogg

30: Mobilising resources for the recovery of Threatened Species

Samantha Vine, Linda Bell and Allan Williams

31: Reporting on success in threatened species conservation: the national policy context

Peter Latch

32: More than hope alone: factors influencing the successful recovery of threatened species in Australia

Stephen T. Garnett, Peter Latch, David B. Lindenmayer, David J. Pannell and John C.Z Woinarski

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