Biodiversity Extinction Crisis Conference - A Pacific Response

Session Details

Community partnerships for effective conservation

Thursday, 12 July 2007 14:05 -15:35

Bio-Med Theatre A

Chairperson Carolyn J Lundquist National Institute of Water & Atmospheric ResearchNew Zealand

Successful conservation requires the integration of biodiversity conservation with the human dimension: the social and political processes that are necessary to achieve conservation strategies and goals. Conservationists in practice realise the importance of managing human interactions with the environment, as well as educating and enlightening the generic public as to the value of the natural environment and the species within. Conservation interactions include small scale community-based efforts such as the efforts of local communities to conserve local habitats or ecosystems, to large scale conservation projects by NGOs that seek large scale conservation through identification of hot spots of biodiversity, or lands imperative for biodiversity conservation. The talks in this symposium will illustrate efforts to include communities (from local to global) in conservation projects, and successful approaches to bridge the barrier between biodiversity objectives and human needs.


How are the Pacific Islands Addressing Regional Taxonomic Challenges?
  • Gilianne D Brodie, BioNET-PACINET, Fiji
  • The importance of long-term monitoring projects in community-based conservation efforts in the insular SW Pacific
  • Gunnar Keppel, University of Queensland, Australia
  • Narrative-Based-Indicators to evaluate co-management effectiveness
  • Dr Cathy Robinson, CSIRO Sustainable Ecoystems, Brisbane, Australia
  • A community-based biodiversity conservation program in the Torricelli Mountains, north-west Papua New Guinea
  • Chris B Banks, Zoos Victoria, Australia
  • The Threatened Species Network: A link between conservation science and the Australian community
  • Samantha Vine, Threatened Species Network, Australia
  • Australian Wildlife Conservancy by Atticus Fleming
  • Atticus Fleming, Australian Wildlife Conservancy, Australia
  • Published on Thursday, 5 July 2007 by the Professional Conference Organiser