Canberra 2025 Program

.The conference has now been extended to a full day Friday.
Abstracts can be read here.

All presentations were recorded and will be available to delegates at a later date.

Tuesday 5 August Evening

5:00pm

6:30pm

Registration, Drinks & Welcome – Marg Peachey, ACT Wildlife / Karen Viggers, Patron, ACT Wildlife

8:30am	9:00am	Introduction – Evan Croker, MC Welcome to Country – Wally Bell, Ngunawal Traditional Custodian Keynote Speaker – Senator David Pocock - Independent Senator for the ACT
9:00am	9:30am	Robert Leach, IFAW – Integrating wildlife into emergency management.
9:30am	10:00am	Dr Colin Salter, WIRES – Roads and wildlife: what can we do?
10:00am	10:30am	Dianna & Warwick Bisset, Rocklilly Wombats – Raising Resilient Wombats: From Rehabilitation to Release in a Changing Climate.
10:30am	11:00am	Morning Tea
11:00am	11:15am	Lauren Bassett, Wildlife Health Australia and Wildlife Rehabilitators: Update and Next Steps.
11:15am	12:00noon	Frances Carleton, WildTalk – What is Moral Injury and Do I Have It?
12:30pm	1:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm	2:00pm	Prof Steve Garlick & Rosemary Austen, Possumwood Wildlife – Wildlife caring and learning about nature revitalisation: A possible lacuna in our climate change concerns.
2:00pm	2:30pm	Peggy Rismiller, Pelican Research & Wildlife Centre – Of Monotremes and Monitor lizards: Two climate change survivors.
2:30pm	3:00pm	Loriann Shibish, Western Australian Seabird Rescue Inc – The Gathering Storm: Caring for Wildlife in Uncertain Times.
3:00pm	3:30pm	Ellen Rasidi, Australian Raptor Care and Conservation Inc – Survival of a wedge-tailed eagle after hallux talon amputation – a case report.

8:30am	9:00am	Keynote Speaker – Greg Gordon, Founder, AWRC
9:00am	9:30am	Sonja Elwood, NSW Wildlife Council – Emergency Response for Wildlife - 5 Years on from the Black Summer Fires - Where are we now?
9:30am	10:00am	Megan Johnston, RSPCA, Qld – Lorikeet Paralysis Syndrome (LPS)
10:00am	10:30am	Joanne Connolly, Charles Sturt University, Jacqui Marlow, Sydney Wildlife Rescue & Dianne Lane WIRES, Riverina – Pre-Release Health & Post-Release Fate of Rehabilitated Macropods"
10:30am	11:00am	Morning Tea
11:00am	11:30am	Peggy McDonald, Higher Ground Raptor Rehabilitation Centre – The Gang-gang
11:30am	12:00noon	Yolandi Vermaak, Wombat Support and Rescue ACT/NSW – Wombat Abundance: Perception vs. Reality in a Changing Climate
12:30pm	1:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm	2:30pm	Panel
2:30pm	3:00pm	Kerryn Parry-Jones, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney – Do Rehabilitated and Hand-reared Flying-foxes Survive in the Wild?
3:00pm	3:30pm	Fiona Ryan, Wildlife Welfare Programs, Zoos Victoria – Building Capacity for Assessing Native Wildlife within General Practice Veterinary Professionals
Drinks 6:30pm	Dinner 7:00pm	Dinner – Genevieve Jacobs, Patron, ACT Wildlife

9:00am	9:30am	Vicky Wilkinson and Rosie Stott, Wildlife Health Australia, Phillip Island Nature Parks– H5 bird ﬂu prevention and preparedness using the Wildlife Health Australia risk mitigation toolbox for wildlife care providers.
9:30am	10:00am	Rebecca Millsteed, Murdoch University and Kanyana Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre – Human activity in the urban environment impacts habitat choice and survival of Tiliqua rugosa rugosa within the Perth Metropolitan Area.
10:00am	10:30am	Morning Tea
10:30am	11:00am	Joanne Connolly, School of Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences, Charles Sturt University – Diseases in Marsupials
11:00am	11:30am	Zara Bennett – Victorian Wildlife Rehabilitation Guidelines
11:30am	12:00noon	Jacqui Marlow and Jess Crauss, Sydney Wildlife Rescue – Urban Owls – giving a hoot about outcomes.
12:00noon	1:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm	1:30pm	Dr Rosemary Austen & Prof Steve Garlick, Possumwood Wildlife – Macropod Fence Hangers: Questions remain regarding successful treatment; especially in relation to stress.
1:30pm	2:00pm	Fiona Ryan, Wildlife Welfare Programs, Zoos Victoria – Preparedness for and Response to Wildlife During Disasters.
2:00pm	2:30pm	Brendah Nyaguthii – Using Bluetooth Low Energy Tags To Estimate The Home Range And Social Structure of the White-Winged Choughs During The Non-Breeding Period.
2:30pm	3:00pm	Announcement for next conference and farewell.