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Session Precis">APDT Session Precis</a><br> <a href = "aiam08bios.html" title="AIAM 08 Keynote biographies">AIAM 08 Keynote biographies</a><br> <br><P>This conference program is also available for download from the front page of the site.  <BR><BR><STRONG>DISCLAIMER:</STRONG>  The committee reserves the right to change or alter the program as it sees fit, dependent on the availability of speakers and other influences that might arise.<BR><BR> <TABLE class=MsoNormalTable style="MARGIN: auto auto auto 4pt; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in; mso-table-layout-alt: fixed" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0> <TR style="HEIGHT: 4.25pt; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: windowtext 1pt solid; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; BACKGROUND: black; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 4.25pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid black 1.0pt; mso-shading: windowtext; mso-pattern: solid black" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><FONT face="NewsGoth BT" color=#ffffff>TUESDAY JUNE 10</FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 1"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .75pt" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><EM><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">Plenary: Pest Animal Outlook </FONT></FONT></EM></P> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">09:00  <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Diana Leeder</B>: Welcome<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">09:15  <B>Tony Peacock</B>: Over the horizon pest animal management<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">09:40  <B>Andy Sheppard</B>: Stronger invasive animal management key to strategic climate change adaption<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">10:05  <B>Jim Thompson</B>: Australian pest animal strategy – what is it and how will it help?</FONT></FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 2"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid black 1.0pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid black .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt; mso-diagonal-down: .75pt solid black; mso-diagonal-up: .75pt solid black" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">10:30-11:00  Morning tea</FONT></FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 4.9pt; mso-yfti-irow: 3"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 4.9pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><STRONG><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">Concurrent Sessions</FONT></FONT></STRONG></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 4"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 261.3pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=348> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><EM>Managing Incursions </EM>Charlie Zammit<EM> <BR></EM></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">11:00  <B>Alan Johnston</B>: Foxes in Tasmania: an update on the eradication program<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">11:15  Shannon Troy: Foxes in Tasmania: what’s on the menu<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">11:30  <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Alison Foster: </B>Foxes in Tasmania:<B> </B>surveillance strategies<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">11:45  <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> Dave Ramsey</B>: Foxes in Tasmania: identifying success or failure<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">12:00  <B>Andrew Woolnough</B>: Managing the starling incursion in WA<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">12:15  <B>Bernice Constantin</B>: Invasive monkeys in Puerto Rico: their history, their damage and challenges to initiating management actions</FONT></FONT></P></TD> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; WIDTH: 261.5pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=349> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><EM>Prioritising and Planning Pest Control</EM>: Andrew Harrison<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">11:00  <B>Mike Braysher</B>: Capacity building for best practice pest management – a diploma course in strategic pest management<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">11:15  <B>Greg Mifsud</B>: National wild dog management: a uniform approach<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">11:30  <B>Richard Southgate: </B>Tracking Australia: development of a program to engage indigenous people in invasive and threatened species monitoring<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">11:45  <B>Bob Biddle</B>: AusBIOSEC: enhancing Australia’s biosecurity systems<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">12:00  <B>Carla Mooney</B>: Understanding landholder decision making about the control of native browsing animals  in Tasmania<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">12:15  <B>Andrew Harrison</B>: Vertebrate pest management challenges and innovation in New Zealand</FONT></FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 11.65pt; mso-yfti-irow: 5"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 11.65pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">12:30-01:30  Lunch</FONT></FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 4pt; mso-yfti-irow: 6"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 4pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><STRONG><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">Concurrent Sessions</FONT></FONT></STRONG></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 7"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 261.3pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=348> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><EM>Island Refuges and Control Programs</EM>: Elaine Murphy<EM> <BR></EM></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">01:30  <B>Mick Clout</B>: The eradication of invasive mammals from New Zealand islands: advances and challenges<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">01:45  <B>Keith Springer</B>: Macquarie Island Pest Eradication: planning a multiple species eradication project <BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">02:00  <B>Ian Wilkinson</B>: Rodent eradication on Lord Howe Island: challenges posed by people, livestock and threatened island endemics<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">02:15  <B>Jamie Mackay</B>: Learning more from mouse eradication attempts - can we increase the success rate?<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">02:30  <B>Julie Kirkwood</B>: Prioritising and protecting Australia’s islands<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">02:45  <B>Jarrad Holmes</B>: Islands as sanctuaries for the threatened mammals of northern Australia</FONT></FONT></P></TD> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; WIDTH: 261.5pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=349> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><EM>Commercial Use of Pest Species</EM>: Steve McLeod<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">01:30  <B>Kylie Singh</B>: Commercial harvesting of pest animals: a review<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">01:45  <B>Tony Pople</B>: Commercial use of feral goats and camels: has it made a difference?<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">02:00  <B>Bruce Warburton</B>: The possum fur industry of New Zealand - Can it contribute to managing this pest?<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">02:15  <B>Matt Gentle</B>: Can feral pig harvesting and co-ordinated control reduce damage to grain crops?<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">02:30  <B>Jason Tyrer</B>: Release of animals from failed commercial enterprises and impacts on community and environment<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">02:45  <B>Steve McLeod</B>: Under what circumstances can commercial use effectively manage pest animals?</FONT></FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 8"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">03:00-03:30  Afternoon tea</FONT></FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 11.65pt; mso-yfti-irow: 9"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 11.65pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><STRONG><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">Concurrent Sessions</FONT></FONT></STRONG></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 10"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 261.3pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=348> <P><EM><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">Island Refuges and Control Programs (continued) <BR></FONT></FONT></EM><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">03:30  <B>Steve Sarre</B>: The application of genetics to island pest management<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">03:45  <B>Tim Bloomfield</B>: The Phillip Island experience: 100 years of foxes from culling to the potential of eradication<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">04:00  <B>John Parkes</B>: Eradication of feral pigs (<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Sus scrofa</I>) from Santa Cruz Island, California<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">04:15  <B>Daniel Vice</B>: Chemical control of invasive brown tree snakes in Guam<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">04:30  <B>Craig Gillies</B>: DOC New Zealand mainland islands<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">04:45  <B>Anna Gsell</B>: “The call of the wild”. The use of scent and olfaction in conservation<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">05:00  <B>James Reardon</B>: Eradication vs control: outcomes of a multi-predator management trial for management of critically endangered species<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">05:15  <B>Charlie Eason</B>: 1080 alternatives for Tasmania<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">05:30  <B>Gary Witmer</B>: Efficacy of commercially available rodenticide baits for the control of Norway rats and house mice</FONT></FONT></P></TD> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; WIDTH: 261.5pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=349> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><EM>Welfare, Urban Pests and Human Conflict:</EM>: Barry Kay <EM> <BR></EM></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">03:30  <B>John Hadidian</B>: Urban wildlife control: concepts and ethics<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">03:45  <B>John Griffin</B>: Operating a ‘humane’ wildlife control business: challenges and opportunity<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">04:00  <B>Bidda Jones</B>: Models for assessing humaneness of pest control<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">04:15  <B>Penny Fisher</B>: Welfare aspects of poisoning for feral pig control: preliminary evaluation of cyanide<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">04:30  <B>Andrew Glover</B>: 15 Years later the eradication of rabbits from Centennial Park<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">04:45  <B>David Hodges</B>: Examples of community driven animal pest control projects in Waikato Region, North Island, New Zealand<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">05:00  <B>Jessica King</B>: Investigating the role of wildlife and wild canids in transmission of neospora caninum<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">05:15  <B>Damian Byrne</B>: Post capture necrosis of the feet caused by soft-catch traps - incidents cause and prevention (Rapid Report)<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">05:25  <B>Hayley Pearson</B>: Survey of domestic pig and wildlife interactions on commercial piggeries in Australia (Rapid Report)<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">05:35  <B>James Ross</B>: An evaluation of  WaxTags® as a monitoring technique for low-density possum (<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Trichosurus vulpecula</I>) populations in New Zealand (Rapid Report)</FONT></FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 11; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">07:30   WELCOME RECEPTION ~ SKY CITY </FONT></FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE></P><BR> <TABLE class=MsoNormalTable style="MARGIN: auto auto auto 4pt; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in; mso-table-layout-alt: fixed" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: black 1pt solid; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; BACKGROUND: black; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-shading: windowtext; mso-pattern: solid black" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><FONT face="NewsGoth BT" color=#ffffff>WEDNESDAY JUNE 11</FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 1"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><EM>Plenary: The Future of Conservation Pest Management</EM>: Dave Choquenot<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><BR>08:55  <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Dave Choquenot</B>: Introduction<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">09:00  <B>Wendy Ruscoe</B>: An experiment to evaluate the consequences in a New Zealand context<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">09:15  <B>Andrea Byrom</B>: When is a ferret like a falcon? Managing vertebrate pests to restore indigenous ecological processes<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">09:30  <B>Grant Norbury</B>:: Multiple interacting species in dryland ecosystems: predicting biodiversity outcomes of pest control<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">09:45  <B>Roger Pech</B>: Exploiting predation processes to protect native fauna and control vertebrate pests<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">10:00  <B>Dave Choquenot</B>: TBA<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">10:15  <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Matt Rayner</B>: Seabirds, predators and island restoration: is the cat out of the bag?</FONT></FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 2"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">10:30-11:00  Morning tea</FONT></FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 3"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><STRONG><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">Concurrent Sessions</FONT></FONT></STRONG></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 4"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 261.3pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=348> <P><EM><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">The Future of Conservation Pest Management (continued); Dave Choquenot<BR></FONT></FONT></EM><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">11:00  <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Paul de Torres</B>: mesopredator release in the Jarrah forests of south-west WA<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">11:15  <B>Keith Morris</B>: Developing an effective fox control program for large nature reserves in the WA Wheatbelt<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">11:30  <B>Nick Dexter</B>: Modelling landscape level fox control and creating ecological traps through baiting<B> <BR></B></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">11:45  <B>Chris Dickman</B>: Wild dogs and biodiversity<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">12:05  <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Richard Duncan</B>: Modelling ecosystem consequences of pest management  </FONT></FONT></P></TD> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; WIDTH: 261.5pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=349> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><EM>Pest Fish Control</EM>: Tony Peacock<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">11:00 <B>Wayne Fulton</B>: A review of Pest fish control in Australia <BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">11:15  <B>Heleena Bamford</B>: Pest Fish Impacts and management in the Murray Darling Basin<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">11:30  <B>Dean Gilligan</B>: Carp reproduction hotspots in the Murray Darling Basin<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">11:45  <B>Ben Smith</B>: Development and testing of a novel pushing trap: is it time we gave common carp the finger?<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">12:00  <B>Paul Brown</B>: Population modelling for pest fish management<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">12:15  <B>John Russell</B>: Towards control of Tilapia populations in north eastern Queensland</FONT></FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 5"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">12:30-01:30  Lunch</FONT></FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 6"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><STRONG><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">Concurrent Sessions</FONT></FONT></STRONG></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 7"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 261.3pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=348> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><EM>Pest Control in Production Settings</EM>: John Burley<EM>  <BR></EM></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">01:30  <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Guy Ballard</B>: What’s stopping effective wild dog management in north-east NSW?<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">01:45  <B>John Tracey</B>: Evaluating starling management strategies <BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">02:00  <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Sean Ogilvie</B>: Non-invasive recovery of brushtail possum (<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Trichosurus velpecula</I>) DNA from bait interference devices <BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">02:15  <B>Alan Robley</B>: Modelling wild dog movement using state-space models to examine optimal bait placement<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">02:30  <B>Laurie Twigg</B>: The potential role in seed eating birds in the dispersal of weeds<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">02:45  <B>Ben Allen</B>: Home range, activity patterns, and habitat use of urban dingoes</FONT></FONT></P></TD> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; WIDTH: 261.5pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=349> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><EM>Pest Fish Control (continued): </EM>Wayne Fulton<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">01:30  <B>Ron Thresher</B>: Recombinant approaches for managing invasive fish<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">01:45  <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Jodie Van de Kamp</B>: Laboratory development of a prototype daughterless construct in Medaka, Oryzias Lapides<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">02:00  <B>Ken McColl</B>: Koi herpesvirus: a potential biological control agent for the common carp<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">02:15  <B>TBA<BR></B></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">02:30  <B>Kara Hilwig</B>: Non-native fish management plan for the Grand Canyon to protect an endangered indigenous fish species<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">02:45  <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Chris Wisniewski: </B>An integrated approach to managing carp in Tasmania</FONT></FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 8"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">03:00-03:30  Afternoon tea</FONT></FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 9"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><STRONG><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">Concurrent Sessions</FONT></FONT></STRONG></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 10"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 261.3pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=348> <P><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><FONT size=2><EM>Pest Control in Production Settings (continued)</EM>: Mark Ramsey</FONT><EM><FONT size=2> <BR></FONT></EM></FONT><FONT face="NewsGoth BT" size=2>03:30  <B>Andrew Crocos</B>:  The community involvement process in the wild dog program in Victoria:<BR></FONT><FONT face="NewsGoth BT" size=2>03:45  <B>Michelle Smith</B>: The efficacy of RATOFF® zinc phosphide bait sachets in controlling rats in banana and teak plantations<BR></FONT><FONT face="NewsGoth BT" size=2>04:00  <B>Marion Atyeo</B>: Efficacy of MOUSEOFF® to control mice in a simulated crop habitat<BR></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">04:15  <B>Ivo Edwards</B>: Advances in trapping for control of pest possums and wallabies in Tasmania, as an economic alternative to 1080 poison<BR></FONT><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">04:30  <B>Peter Fleming</B>: </FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>Feral goats, rainfall and water:  potentials for management in different ecosystems.<BR></FONT><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">04:45  <B>Stefan Kaiser</B>: Victoria’s good neighbour program<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">05:00  <B>Lee Allen</B>: Are we focussing wild dog control the wrong time of the year and going about it the wrong way?<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">05:15 <B>Tarnya Cox</B>: Carnivore odours as repellents: an effective pest management tool? (Rapid Report)<B> <BR></B></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">05:25 <B> Tom Newsome: </B>Activity of wild dogs, co-occuring carnivores and key prev species before and after annual strategic control in Northern NSW (Rapid Report)</FONT></FONT></P></TD> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; WIDTH: 261.5pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=349> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><EM>Rabbit Control</EM>: David Lord<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">03:30  <B>Peter Elsworth</B>: Co-evolution of Wild Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) and RHDV: Resistance and Virulence:<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">03:45  <B>Ron Sinclair</B>: Are rabbits at Turretfield Research Centre South Australia becoming resistant to RHD<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">04:00  <B>Tanja Strive</B>: Identification and partial characterisation of a new Calicivirus – impacts for RHDV biocontrol?<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">04:15  <B>Greg Mutze</B>: Effectiveness of RHDV releases for rabbit control<B> <BR></B></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">04:30  <B>Michael Brennan</B>: The value of having no wild rabbits in South East Queensland<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">04:45  <B>Dave Berman</B>: A method for mapping the distribution and density of rabbits and other vertebrate pests in Australia <BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">05:00  <B>Bill Low</B>: Review of the rabbit control program at Ularu-Kata Tjuta National Park, February 1989 to 2007<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">05:15  <B>Jason Reithmuller</B>: Where should rabbits be controlled? Using a range of tools to ensure a successful outcome</FONT></FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 11; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">07:00  CONFERENCE DINNER IN SKY CITY</FONT></FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE><BR> <TABLE class=MsoNormalTable style="MARGIN: auto auto auto 4pt; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in; mso-table-layout-alt: fixed" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: black 1pt solid; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; BACKGROUND: black; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-shading: windowtext; mso-pattern: solid black" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><FONT face="NewsGoth BT" color=#ffffff>THURSDAY JUNE 12</FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 1"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><EM>Plenary: International Pest Control Issues</EM>: Steve Lapidge<BR><BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">08:30  <B>Richard Engeman</B>: Invasive species issues and management in a global wildlife melting pot: Florida<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">08:45  <B>John Eiseman</B>: New products for vertebrate control in the U.S.<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">09:00  <B>Kathleen Fagerstone</B>: Recent developments in wildlife contraception<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">09:30  <B>Stephanie Shwiff</B>: Techniques for estimating the economic impact of vertebrate pests: a case study<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">09:45  <B>Steven Shwiff</B>: Using input-output models to measure the economic impact of vertebrate pests<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">10:00  <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Hans-Joachim Pelz: </B>Genetic background and worldwide evidence of resistance to anticoagulant rodenticides in rats and mice<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">10:15 <B>ACTA Award Winner</B></FONT></FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 2"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">10:30-11:00  Morning tea</FONT></FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 3"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><STRONG><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">Concurrent Sessions</FONT></FONT></STRONG></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 4"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 261.3pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=348> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><EM>New Tools and Methods</EM>: Damian Collopy<EM> <BR><BR></EM></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">11:00  <B>Steve Lapidge</B>: New tools for feral pig control under development at the Invasive Animals CRC<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">11:15  <B>Lyn Hinds</B>: Effect of A GnRH vaccine (GonaCon<SUP>TM</SUP>) on the fertility of male and female wallabies<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">11:30  <B>Michael Johnston</B>: Field trial of a new bait and toxicant for feral cat management on French Island, Victoria<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">11:45  <B>Elaine Murphy</B>: Developing a new toxin for the control of feral cats and stoats in New Zealand<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">12:00  <B>David Dall</B>: A sprayable formulation for lethal control of cane toads<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">12:15  <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Paul Meek</B>: For whom the Bell tolls: over-abundant Bell Miners, Lerps and the fate of east coast eucalypt forests<B> </B> </FONT></FONT></P></TD> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; WIDTH: 261.5pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=349> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><EM>Monitoring Pest Animals:</EM> Andrew Woolnough<EM> <BR></EM></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">11:00  <B>James Speed</B>: Evaluating techniques for determining Feral Cat and Fox population densities, in South Eastern Queensland:<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">11:15  <B>Tony Buckmaster</B>: Responses of feral cats to large scale fox control in East Gippsland, Victoria<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">11:30  <B>Danielle Stephens</B>: Comparison of DNA-based techniques for population estimation of wild dogs<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">11:45  <B>Alex Diment</B>: Detection of cryptic animals at low densities: finding foxes using remote cameras and forensic DNA <BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">12:00  <B>Peter West</B>: National assessment of invasive animals – project outcomes<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">12:15  <B>David Peacock</B>: feral deer distribution, abundance and impact and associated landholder attitudes: Results of an extremely successful postal survey of rural landholders in southeast South Australia</FONT></FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE class=MsoNormalTable style="MARGIN: auto auto auto 4pt; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in; mso-table-layout-alt: fixed" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 2"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">12:30-01:30  Lunch</FONT></FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 3"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><STRONG><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">Concurrent Sessions</FONT></FONT></STRONG></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 4"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 261.3pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=348> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><EM>New Tools and Methods (continued)</EM>: Matt Gentle<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">01:30  <B>Neal Finch</B>: Machine Vision Technology<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">01:45  <B>Herb Christophers</B>: Risk communication associated with the 1080 reassessment process in New Zealand<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">02:00  <B>Oliver Berry</B>: The mainland origins of foxes: The DNA evidence <BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">02:15  <B>Ray Clarey</B>: Bother in the bush: Seeds of doubt<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">02:30  <B>Alison Barrett</B>: “Vectornet” -  technology for managing a large pest control programme<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> <BR></B></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">02:45  <B>Beth Jones</B>: A new 1080 bait supply model for Victoria: making it happen</FONT></FONT></P></TD> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; WIDTH: 261.5pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=349> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><EM>Cane Toad Impacts and Control</EM>: David Peacock<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">01:30  <B>Alex Hyatt</B>: Biological control of cane toads: overview<B> <BR></B></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">01:45  <B>Jackie Pallister</B>: The immune approach to cane toad biocontrol<B> <BR></B></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">02:00  <B>Mike Letnic</B>: Invasive cane toads cause mass mortality of freshwater crocodiles in the Victorian River, Northern Territory<B> <BR></B></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">02:15  <B>Susan Crocetti</B>: Tactics, tools and techniques to tackle the toad<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">02:30  <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gordon Grigg</B>: A ten year study has revealed no long term impact of cane toads on native frogs in the Roper River district of the Northern Territory.<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">02:45  <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Rob Capon</B>: TBA</FONT></FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 5"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">03:00-03:30  Afternoon tea</FONT></FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 6"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><STRONG><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">Concurrent Sessions</FONT></FONT></STRONG></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 7"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 261.3pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=348> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><EM>Managing Pest Animals in a Biodiversity Setting</EM>: Glenn Edwards<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">03:30  <B>Ben Reddiex</B>: Biodiversity benefits of possum control in NZ<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">03:45  <B>Gordon Friend</B>: Managing foxes for biodiversity benefits in Victoria: the ‘Ark’ projects<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">04:00  <B>Andrew Murray</B>: The Southern Ark project: broadscale fox control in coastal and forested landscapes in far east Gippsland, Victoria<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">04:15  <B>Matt Kavermann</B>: Expanding the Fox TAP<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">04:30  <B>Brad Purcell</B>: Genetic characterisation of dingoes in the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">04:45  <B>Mellissa Farrelly</B>: Integrated management for pest animals in Australia’s arid lands<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">05:00  <B>Grant Morriss</B>: Weka - excluding bait stations for possum control in Weka habitat<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">05:15  <B>Glenn Edwards</B>: TBA</FONT></FONT></P></TD> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8; WIDTH: 261.5pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=349> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><EM>Landscape Control Programs</EM>: Helen Cathles<EM> <BR></EM></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">03:30  <B>Dave Algar</B>: Sustained integrated predator control in the rangelands of WA<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">03:45  <B>Catherine Davey</B>: The impact of game bird management on farmland biodiversity in the UK<B> <BR></B></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">04:00  <B>Keith Briden</B>: Deer issues and management in New Zealand<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">04:15  <B>Pip Masters</B>: Kangaroo Island pest eradication program with a focus on fallow deer<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">04:30  <B>Rob Hunt</B>: Long term survival of a cooperative pest control program<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">04:45  <B>Richard Bowman</B>: Community involvement in pest management in southern NZ:<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">05:00  <B>Ricky Spencer</B>: Bringing out the mongel in the Australian Dingoes<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">05:15  <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TBA</B>             </FONT></FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR style="HEIGHT: 3pt; mso-yfti-irow: 8; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes"> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: black 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4pt; BORDER-LEFT: black 1pt solid; WIDTH: 522.8pt; PADDING-TOP: 4pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: black 1pt solid; HEIGHT: 3pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid black 1.0pt" vAlign=top width=697 colSpan=2> <P><FONT size=2><FONT face="NewsGoth BT">07:30   MINDLE MARKETS OPTIONAL DINNER</FONT></FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE><BR><BR> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT face=Calibri size=3>POSTERS</FONT></P> <P class=NormalParagraphStyle style="MARGIN: 5.65pt 0in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: -17pt"><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Lee Allen</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>: Is night time wind direction important to best practice wild dog trapping and baiting</SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=NormalParagraphStyle style="MARGIN: 5.65pt 0in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: -17pt"><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Dave Berman</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>: Control of rabbits in arid <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>: destroying the drought refuge</SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=NormalParagraphStyle style="MARGIN: 5.65pt 0in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: -17pt"><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Mark Branson</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>: </SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=NormalParagraphStyle style="MARGIN: 5.65pt 0in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: -17pt"><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Ho Dang</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>: Grey headed flying foxes in the orchards of the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sydney</st1:place></st1:City> basin</SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=NormalParagraphStyle style="MARGIN: 5.65pt 0in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: -17pt"><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Simon Humphrys</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>: Assessment of PAPP as a lethal control agent for canid pests in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region></st1:place></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=NormalParagraphStyle style="MARGIN: 5.65pt 0in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: -17pt"><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Catherine Davey</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>: The effect of an exotic game-bird on native bird populations in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=NormalParagraphStyle style="MARGIN: 5.65pt 0in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: -17pt"><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Brendan Dyer</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>: The biology of the grassland melomys (<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Melomys burtoni</I>) (Rodentia: Muridae) in far north <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Queensland</st1:State></st1:place> sugarcane crops</SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=NormalParagraphStyle style="MARGIN: 5.65pt 0in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: -17pt"><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Charles Eason</SPAN></B><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=NormalParagraphStyle style="MARGIN: 5.65pt 0in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: -17pt"><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Amanda Elledge</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>: Pig rooting in lowland rainforests: where, when and what does it do?</SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=NormalParagraphStyle style="MARGIN: 5.65pt 0in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: -17pt"><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Melissa Farrelly</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>: Integrated management of pest animals in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s arid lands </SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=NormalParagraphStyle style="MARGIN: 5.65pt 0in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: -17pt"><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Robbie Gaffney</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>: The use of video cameras to determine non-target ‘bait take’ of 1080 fox baits in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Tasmania</st1:State></st1:place></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=NormalParagraphStyle style="MARGIN: 5.65pt 0in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: -17pt"><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Anna Gsell</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>: Can lab rats help us to lure wild rats?</SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=NormalParagraphStyle style="MARGIN: 5.65pt 0in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: -17pt"><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Neville Johnson</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>: Controlling foxes on Phillip Island: what is the most efficient method?</SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=NormalParagraphStyle style="MARGIN: 5.65pt 0in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: -17pt"><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Mike Letnic</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>: Calibration of methods to estimate feral goat abundance in rangelands</SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=NormalParagraphStyle style="MARGIN: 5.65pt 0in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: -17pt"><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Nick Markopoulas</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>: <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Kangaroo</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Island</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> goat eradication program</SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=NormalParagraphStyle style="MARGIN: 5.65pt 0in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: -17pt"><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Aroha Miller</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>: Minimising the impact of vertebrate pesticides on non-target species</SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=NormalParagraphStyle style="MARGIN: 5.65pt 0in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: -17pt"><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Jim Mitchell</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>: Impacts of feral pigs in freshwater ecosystems</SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=NormalParagraphStyle style="MARGIN: 5.65pt 0in 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: -17pt"><FONT face="NewsGoth BT"><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Tom Newsome</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>: Management of Dingoes in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Tanami</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Desert</st1:PlaceType></st1:place></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=NormalParagraphStyle style="MARGIN: 5.65pt 0in 0pt 27pt; 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