National Malleefowl Forum, August 2011

The 4th National Malleefowl Forum was organised by Sharon Gillam and held in Renmark, SA from July 29 to August 1, 2011. Keynote presentations were provided by Dr Joe Benshemesh (National Database), Dr Blair Parsons & Dr Simon Watson (Fire), Taneal Cope (Malleefowl Genetics), and Dr Joe Benshemesh & Dr Michael Bode (Adaptive Management). The full titles of their addresses, and all the other oral and poster presentations, and the contents can be found below.

The proceedings are available as a complete document (198 pages).

Proceedings of the National Malleefowl Forum, July 2011 (complete) (14Mb)

  • Contents

  • Preface

  • Acknowledgements

  • Program

  • Resolutions of the Forum

Oral Presentations

  • Welcome - P Sandell

  • Aims of the National Forum - P Sandell

  • Performance Evaluation of the National Recovery Plan for Malleefowl - P Copley

  • The national Malleefowl database: making excellence easier - J Benshemesh

  • Malleefowl Conservation in SA: activities from 2007 to 2011 - S Gillam

  • Malleefowl monitoring in the SA Murray Darling Basin: 2011 update - D & H Setchell

  • Status, monitoring and management of Nganamara in South Australia's Aboriginal Lands. A brief follow-up from 2008 - M Ward

  • Activities of WA Malleefowl Network 2009 to 2011 - S Davies

  • North Central Malleefowl Preservation Group update - S Cail

  • To Be or Not to Be: The Future of Malleefowl Conservation - S Dennings

  • New South Wales update - P Ewin

  • Malleefowl Conservation Action in Victoria 2007 to 2011 - P Stokie

  • Contemporary fire regimes in a fragmented and an unfragmented landscape: implications for persistence of the fire-sensitive Malleefowl - B Parsons

  • An overview of the Mallee Fire and Biodiversity Project - S Watson

  • Volunteering - Where would we be without volunteers, and can we keep them? - A Stokie

  • A landowner's story of Malleefowl conservation in the SA Murray Mallee and the establishment of the Brown's Well Landcare Group - L Westbrook

  • Twenty years of Malleefowl conservation by the Mantung Maggea Land Management Group - M Johns

  • Conservation genetics of Malleefowl - T Cope

  • Effects of locust control activities on Malleefowl nesting success - E Ryan-Colton

  • Adaptive management of Malleefowl - J Benshemesh

  • Distribution of Malleefowl nesting mounds and vegetation attributes in remnant habitat in western New South Wales - M Lewis

  • Tracking Malleefowl in the Little Desert National Park: A preliminary study of Malleefowl activity in the park - R Patford

  • Mallee and Malleefowl Restoration at Monarto Zoological Park - V Wilson

  • How Habitat 141 contributes to Malleefowl conservation - B Carr

  • Nganamara Maralinga: Monitoring of Nganamara (Malleefowl) in the arid zone ecosystems of Maralinga Tjarutja - H Ehmann

  • Vision Statement, Charter & Guideline for project application for Malleefowl Offset Monies - S Mitchell

Poster Presentations

  • Private landscape restoration for Malleefowl - B Fox

  • Using Remote Sensor Cameras to gather data on Malleefowl - G Tonkin

  • Landscape scale surveying by the Lachlan Catchment Management Authority for Malleefowl nest sites in western NSW - M Lewis

  • Conservation activities in the northern Murray Mallee - where do Malleefowl fit in? - C Grant

  • Wedderburn Conservation Management Network: Malleefowl Conservation Activities - W Murphy