National Malleefowl Forum, September 2007

The 2007 Forum was held in September at Katanning, Western Australia and hosted by the National Recovery Team. In addition to a range of presentations on the Malleefowl, three papers reviewed conservation issues in other species of megapode, from within Australia and in the adjoining Indo-Pacific region.

The proceedings are available as a complete document (176 pages).

Proceedings of the National Malleefowl Forum, September 2007 (complete) (8.4Mb)

  • Contents

  • Preface and Acknowledgements

  • Resolutions of the Forum

  • Aims of the Forum - P Sandell

  • Progess towards a national system of monitoring and adaptive Management for Malleefowl - J Benshemesh

  • Towards a national system: the power of the people - A Stokie

  • Malleefowl in New South Wales: review of past and future actions - P Ewin

  • Victorian state round-up - achievements since Mildura 2004 - P Stokie

  • Malleefowl conservation in South Australia: achievements from 2004 to 2007 - S Gillham

  • Achievements in Western Australian Malleefowl conservation sice the forum at Mildura in 2004 - C Danzi

  • Status, monitoring and management of Nganamara in the southern Alinytjara Wilurara National Resorce Management region - M Ward & K Bellchambers

  • Nganamara in South Australia's Anangu Pitanjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands - T Partridge

  • Captive breeding and management of Malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata) at Western Plains Zoo, 1989 to present - J Gillespie

  • Conservation genetics of Malleefowl - R Mulder, R Dunn & S Donnellan

  • Are we doing enough? A review of the conservation status of megapodes and the implementation of their action plans - J R Sinclair

  • Bruijn's Brush-turkey Aepypodius bruijni: field discovery and conservation of an enigmaI - Mauro

  • Megapodes in northern Australia: a summary of recent research on the Orange-footed Scrubfowl and Australian Brush-turkey - D N Jones

  • Malleefowl in the Western Australian Wheatbelt; an ecological study informed by community knowledge - B Parsons

  • How to support the recruitment of Malleefowl Leipoa ocellata in small remnants: an overview of project findings - J van der Waag

  • Post-release survival of captive-reared Malleefowl in western New South Wales - C J Coombes, R Dehaan & A L Wilson

  • Malleefowl searches at Yeelirrie Station in arid Western Australia: a valuable collaboration between industry and volunteers - J Benshemesh, S Dennings, C Danzi & A Saunders

  • Re-searching Malleefowl monitoring sites - a Victorian Malleefowl Recovery Group perspective - P Stokie

  • Does the integrity or structure of mallee habitat influence the degree of fox predation on Malleefowl? - D Priddel, R Wheeler & P Copley

  • Malleefowl at Mt. Gibson minesite - M Scheltema & P Jones

  • Little Desert Nature Lodge presentation - R W Reichelt