Karen Ikin and Laura Rayner present to ACT Govt on urban birdlife and woodland bird decline

["Woo O'Reilly" <>]

Hi Geoffrey et al

I work in the Environment and Sustainable Development Directorate so I just asked the relevant section if COG members were able to attend. They said that would be fine! Please see details below. Note RSVP is today.

ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society on bird diversity in the urban environment

 You are invited to a two part seminar from researchers at the ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society on bird diversity in the urban environment.

When:                         Friday 26 July 2013

Where:                        ESDD Dame Pattie Menzies House, Dickson  

Room:                         Ground Floor North Function Room

Times:                         9:30am to 11am

 There will be a light morning tea following the presentations

 Please RSVP Serena Farrelly, Nature Conservation Policy Unit by COB Wednesday 24 July for catering purposes.

Cheers - Woo

Woo O'Reilly

Upper Murrumbidgee Waterwatch Facilitator

Environment and Sustainable Development

ACT Government

Dame Pattie Menzies House, Challis Street, Dickson ACT

02 6207 2246 | 0413 246 761

www.act.waterwatch.org.au

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

Thank you, David

 

Are these presentations open to the public?

 

If so, time and venue?

 

If not, are the presentations published later?

 

From: David McDonald (personal) [
Sent: Tuesday, 23 July 2013 11:46 AM
To: CanberraBirds
Subject: [canberrabirds] Karen Ikin and Laura Rayner present to ACT Govt on urban birdlife and woodland bird decline

 

Info from the Environmental Decisions Group:
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Canberra: Karen Ikin and Laura Rayner present to ACT Govt on urban birdlife and woodland bird decline
Karen and Laura are presenting to the ACT Environment and Sustainable Development Directorate on Friday 26 July.

Karen is speaking on: What do birds need to survive in the city
“I'll summarise findings from a 3-year study investigating this question. I'll talk about the importance of urban trees, the relationship between vegetation complexity and bird diversity, how degraded land can be valuable and why it's important to manage it appropriately, and whether it's possible to have both urban sustainability and bird diversity. I'll also touch on what all of this means for habitat connectivity and future urban planning.”

Laura will be speaking on: “What we need to know about Australian woodland bird decline”
“In the last 50 years, reports of woodland bird decline throughout the temperate zone of Australia have flooded the conservation literature. Given the challenges associated with deriving accurate and reliable trend estimates, what inference can be drawn from this literature? We take a look at how conservation science has progressed for this threatened assemblage of species and discuss the implications for managing woodland bird populations in the A.C.T. We'll also provide a timely update on the conservation status of these species based on empirical monitoring records from the last 15 years, capturing population responses to one of the most severe droughts in Australian history.”
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