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12 MAY 2021

OPENING PLENARY

Dr Tein McDonald and Prof Kingsley Dixon – National Restoration Standards

Restoration in Practice – Mining

Natasha Ufer, Establishing framework species in bauxite mine rehabilitation in northern Australia

Lorna Hernandez-Santin, Protocol for reference site selection

Jay Nicholson, Developing mine site closure criteria to ensure long-term ecosystem sustainability

Restoration Economics

Phoebe Stewart-Sinclair, Spatial cost-benefit analysis of blue restoration and factors driving net benefits globally

Renee Young,Towards a framework for Australia’s Restoration Economy

Anazelia Tedesco, Incentive mechanisms for promoting large-scale forest restoration through natural regeneration persistence

Human Dimensions in Restoration –

Part 2 sponsored by the City of Darwin

Clancy Hearps, Mine site restoration in Australia needs to incorporate environmental justice actions for Indigenous engagement

Damien Cook, TOs restoring wetlands in the Victorian Riverina

Todd Dudley, Acknowledging the cultural legacy of bush regeneration/ecological restoration

Barry Heydenrych, Noongar animal totems emerge in Gondwana Link – a cross-cultural vision aided by technology

Fauna Ecology in Restoration

Moderator Introduction by David Loewensteiner

Holly Bradley, Predators thriving in an anthropogenic landscape: a key threat to a culturally significant, threatened species

Ian Sluiter, Implementation of the Malleefowl Landscape Links Project in Northwest Victoria

Kristen Fernandes, DNA metabarcoding for fauna biomonitoring in ecosystem restoration projects

Mieke Van der Heyde, Evaluating restoration trajectories using DNA metabarcoding of invertebrates and their associated plant communities

Alan Andersen, Faunal standards for ecosystem restoration: rehabilitation of Ranger Uranium Mine

Applying TEK in carbon projects to enhance restoration outcomes

Moderator Introduction by Keith Taylor

Assisted Regeneration Projects – appropriate responses to the Black Summer wildfires in NSW Australia

Gerard Proust, Assisting post-fire regeneration at Yatte Yattah NR, south coast NSW

Tom Clarke, Guiding volunteers in assisting post fire regeneration at Crowdy Bay NP, NSW

Joanne Green, Post -fire dilemmas in a mixed forest edge in Wanganui NSW

Boyd Carney, Optimising postwildfire opportunities to control Scotch Broom in Barrington Tops NP World Heritage Area, NSW

Tein McDonald, Grassland assisted regeneration post-fire at Scottsdale, Bredbo NSW

Human Dimensions in Restoration

Part 3

Applying TEK in carbon projects to enhance restoration outcomes

Gillian Mayne, QLD Land Restoration Fund – Valuing Traditional Knowledge in Carbon Projects

Jonathan Green, Indigenous Carbon Project Development with ILSC

Panel discussion