South Australia's Major Biodiversity Advocate!
"Working for our natural heritage"
The Nature Conservation Society is a major environmental group, celebrating over forty years of devoting its energies to ensuring the survival of South Australia's biodiversity.
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Our AGM is being held on Thursday 2nd September, 6.00 for 6.30pm.
Guest speaker
Kirsten Long, Fire Ecologist
Adelaide Region, Department of Natural Resources
will be speaking on
Fire ecology
This year's AGM is being held at the Benham Lecture Theatre, Benham Building, The University of Adelaide (the Benham Building is the second building along Victoria Drive from the corner of Frome Road and Victoria Drive).
Drinks and light supper provided from 6pm
All welcome
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Draft Fire Management Plan - Reserves of the Onkaparinga Valley |
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The Draft Fire Management Plan states that
it "defines objectives for ecological fire management and the protection of
life and property, particularly in relation to visitors and adjacent
landholders."
While the Plan provides comprehensive
detail for the protection of life and property, the Society believes that it
has failed to adequately cover some of the over arching principles necessary
for the ecological fire management of public reserves that are dedicated to the
conservation and protection of native species, populations, communities and
habitats. The Society has provided the following specific comments to help to improve the scientific credibility
and ecological focus of this document.
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2010 Conservation Biology Grant |
The NCSSA 2010 Conservation Biology Grant was announced at the 6th May meeting of the Society (held in conjunction with the Biology Society of SA meeting).
This grant aims to assist honours and post-graduate level student research into aspects of conservation biology.
Funds are available for research aimed at: improving understanding of the conservation status of species or ecological communities; providing recommendations for improvement of some aspect of biodiversity conservation; understanding the ecology of species or communities; and understanding threats to biodiversity and management of those threats.
2010 Conservation Biology Grant recipients are:
Scott Groom — Flinders University of South Australia ($1000)
“South Australian native bee conservation in the face of combined habitat fragmentation and climate
change”
Victoria Marshall—University of Adelaide ($1000)
“Mapping/ modelling the distribution of invasive weed, Buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris)”
The Conservation Biology Grants aim to extend the excellent work undertaken by research students on aspects of the biodiversity of South Australia. Previous grants have contributed to research into diverse topics including studies of the locally extinct Ghost Bat (Macroderma gigas) of southern Australia, Pollination biology and ecology of saltmarsh communities in S.A., Effect of the removal of exotic willows on the invertebrate communities in the River Murray, SA, and Video monitoring of nest predation events in the Superb Fairy-wrens.
This Grant is supported by donations to your Society — please consider contributing to this worthwhile cause
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Seeking a Balance: Conservation and resource use in the Northern Flinders Ranges |
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The Nature Conservation Society has grave concerns regarding the processes and scientific methodologies used to develop the document, Seeking a Balance: Conservation and resource use in the Northern Flinders Ranges. In particular the Society has concerns about the validity, transparency and accountability of the methods utilised to produce this report and the adequacy and appropriateness of the data used to determine the proposed management zones. This document has omitted a variety of critical and essential steps that form the basis of an unbiased and scientifically sound planning document.
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