Activities
Scientific Committees
As the peak professional body of Ecologists in Australia, ESA
representatives are invited to sit on a number of government and
scientific committees around the country. If this is something
you would like to be involved in, consider registering your interest
on the Member’s database. Please
contact your Regional Councillor for more
information.
Correspondence or reports from our representatives will be included on the ESA website in the Member's Only archive, and published in the quarterly ESA Bulletin.
Australian Forestry Standards Technical Reference Committee
Dr Ross Peacock
NSW Dept of Environment and Climate Change,
c/o Dept Biological Science, Macquarie University rpeacock at rna.bio.mq.edu.au
Relevant documents to the AFS Technical Reference Committee:
Download: Vegetation Clearance for Plantation Establishment - March 2006
Download: Status Report on the Review of the Australian Forestry Standard - May 2007 see also http://www.forestrystandard.org.au/
National Committee for
Plant and Animal Sciences - Australian Academy of Science
Professor Mark Westoby
Dept
of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University
mwestoby at rna.bio.mq.edu.au
Alligator Rivers Region Technical Committee
Dr Carl Grant
Alcoa World Alumina
Carl.grant at alcoa.com.au
Independent Member selected by FASTS: expertise in ecosystem
rehabilitation. Not representing the ESA.
New South Wales
Dr Doland Nichols
Environmental Science and Management, Southern Cross University
dnichols at scu.edu.au
Private Native Forestry Group
Dr Brad Murray
NSW Scientific Committee
brad.murray@uts.edu.au
The NSW Scientific Committee was established in 1996, following the enactment of the Threatened Species Conservation Act. It is an independent committee of scientists appointed by the Minister for the Environment. The Committee makes determinations about the populations, species, ecological communities and key threatening processes that are listed on the schedules of the Threatened Species Conservation Act. The current Chairperson of the Committee is Associate Professor Lesley Hughes.
Participation of ESA in the Committee’s work occurs through a member of the Society attending regular Committee meetings, and contributing to determinations. Some of the recent work we have been doing includes listing Prostanthera spinosa (family Lamiaceae), and the Red-backed Button-quail Turnix maculosa as vulnerable species. The population of Egernia whitii in the Broken Hill Complex Bioregion has recently been listed as endangered, as has the population of Acacia pendula in the Hunter catchment.
ESA members are encouraged to make nominations to the Committee not only for new listings, but also if they think that the status of any population, species or ecological community that is listed should be changed. For instance, members might recommend an increase or decrease in the threatened status (or removal) of populations, species or ecological communities from the Schedules. Members can also make nominations for Key Threatening Processes.
More information about the NSW Scientific Committee, and their determinations and publications, can be found at: http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/npws.nsf/Content/About+the+NSW+Scientific+Committee
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