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Managing the Grey-headed Flying -fox

Edited by Peggy Eby & Daniel Lunney
ISBN 0 9586085 4 7

Proceedings of a special RZS forum held to debate changes to management of the Grey-headed Flying-fox following its listing as a threatened species. This volume explores the controversies surrounding flying-fox management on fruit crops and in camps, and highlights the move toward conservation management.

Dingo Symposium

Contents:

  • Foreword

  • Managing the Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus as a threatened species: a context for the debate - Peggy Eby and Daniel Lunney

  • Managing the Grey-headed Flying-fox as a threatened species in NSW: finding a balanced solution - Brian Gilligan

  • Pest, or Passenger Pigeon? The New South Wales Scientific Committee's assessment of the status of the Grey-head Flying-fox - Chris Dickman and Mike Fleming

  • Implications of listing the Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus as a vulnerable species in New South Wales under the provisions of the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 - Graham Wilson

  • Review of the NPWS policy on the mitigation of commercial crop damage by flying-foxes - Kelly Waples

  • The cost to orchardists in the management of the Grey-headed Flying- fox. Who pays? A community benefit approach - Ed Biel

  • The impact upon fruit growers of a decision to list the Grey-headed Flying- fox as a Vulnerable species under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act - Peter Comensoli

  • The increasing need for netting fruit orchards against bat and bird damage and the increasing problems in affording netting -John Gough 56 The economic and social implications of Flying-fox predation on the north coast of NSW -John Rogers

  • The need for aversion agents for managing flying-foxes on crops and the difficulties in attracting research funds -John R. Bicknell

  • To net or not to net that is the question! But is it the answer? - Lawrence Ullio

  • Management issues in minimisation of damage by flying-foxes to horticultural crops - Col Bower

  • NPWS operational management of commercial crop damage by flying- foxes - licensing in practice, a far north coast perspective - Brian McLachlan

  • Tree-planting to conserve flying-foxes and reduce orchard damage - Brad Law, Peggy Eby and Doug Sommerville

  • The reproductive biology and intrinsic capacity for increase of the Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus (Megachiroptera), and the implications of culling - L. Martin and A. P Mcllwee 91 Queensland Flying-fox Consultative Committee - formation, outcomes and future strategies – Sandy Teagle

  • First Plenary Debate: fruit and flying-foxes in the 21st  century

  • Sustainable management of the Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus - Christopher R. Tidemann

  • Flying-fox management in Queensland: is it any different? - Allan McKinnon, Jim Thompson and Greg Gordon

  • The role of Grey-headed Flying-foxes in the ecology of Hendra virus, Menangle virus and Australian bat lyssa virus - Hume Field

  • Survival, inquiry and sophistication in managing Grey-headed Flying- foxes -Julie Hughes

  • An historical perspective of changing community attitudes towards Flying-foxes in Sydney - Denise Ford

  • Community perceptions of flying-foxes in New South Wales - Daniel Lunney, Adele Reid and Alison Matthews

  • Contemporary issues in managing flying-fox camps: a publicly- documented conflict from Maclean on the north coast of NSW - Carole West

  • The development of strategies for management of the flying-fox colony at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney - G. C. Richards Management of roost sites of the Grey-headed flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus on the north coast of NSW: a National Parks &Wildlife Service perspective - Mar-tin Smith

  • Management of flying-fox camps: what have we learnt in the last twenty five years? - Leslie S. Hall

  • Neighbors of Ku-ring-gai Flying-fox Reserve: community attitudes survey 2001 - Elisabeth Larsen, Marjoie Beck, Elizabeth Hartnell and Michael Creenaune

  • Using New South Wales planning instruments to improve conservation and management of Grey-headed Flying-fox camps - Peggy Eby

  • Final plenary debate: camp management, research matters and community involvement integrated with fruit and flying-foxes in the 2 1 st century 251 The planning system in NSW and threatened species - Anne Conway..

  • Recommendations for the recovery of the Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus in New South Wales - Gemma M. O'Brien and Mary-Clare G. Fisher

  • Managing the Grey-headed Flying-Fox Pteropus poliocephalus as a threatened species in NSW: adjusting to a long time vision - Peggy Eby and Daniel Lunney

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