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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
  • Appraising Threatened species recovery efforts: Practical recommendations
    Tim W. Clark
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• Workshop Reports
  • Workshop 1: Recovery Plan Implementation
  • Workshop 2: Community Involvement
  • Workshop 3: Monitoring and Evaluation of Recovery Programs
  • Workshop 4: Ecological Communities and Groups of Species

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.

Trade and mail order enquiries should be directed to the publisher:

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