Penrith 2004

The second National Wildlife Rehabilitation Conference was held in 2004 in Penrith NSW.
The theme of this conference was "Together we'll make a difference".
The conference papers were originally hosted on the Aus Fauna Care website: these were moved to this new site in early 2011. Some papers  have been compressed into ZIP files to reduce download size.
A partial list of the Organising Committee includes Audrey Koosmen, Lorraine Vass, Ilona Roberts, Gwen Parry-Jones and Master of Ceremonies Steve Amesbury.
The papers / presentations are generally in PDF format unless otherwise stated. If you have any problems accessing the files, please contact us and let us know

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Papers & Presentations

Most papers are in PDF format unless otherwise stated. You will need a PDF readers such as Adobe PDF or Foxit reader to open these files.

Note: These papers are the intellectual property of the authors and may not be copied or distributed in any way without the prior permission of the author.   

• Buckley, Peter: Let's Talk Turtle
• Caneris, Adrian: Establishing a Wildlife Rehabilitation Council in Qld
• Davis, Kathryn: Care and Release of Microbat Pups (MS Powerpoint)
• Debus, Stephen: Criteria for successful Release of Rehabilitated Raptors
• Edwards, Andrew: Parasite Control in Raptor Rehabilitation
• English, Prof A.W: Wildlife Health & Conservation Centre, Sydney University

• Firkins, Julie: Digestive Tract Problems in Ringtail Possums 
  
• Larner, Margaret: Wound Management in macropods (Zip file)
• Fowler, Dr Anne: Common Presentations of Injured Native Turtles
• Gipp, Gail: Hand Raising Orphaned Koalas
• Haight, Ruth: Flu in Bobtail Skinks (Shinglebacks)
• Hall, Elizabeth: Oiled Wildlife Treatment in South Africa & Spain
• Hall, Elizabeth: Transport, Handling & Husbandry of Seabirds
• Hogan, Ann: Removing Tar from Blue-tongue Lizards (and other reptiles)
• Koosmen, Audrey: Disaster Plan (Various supporting documents - Zip file)
• Lunney Dr Daniel et al: Post-fire survival & reproduction of rehabilitated & unburnt koalas
• Millett, Lynnette: Stress Dermatitis in Brush-tail Possums
• Moon, Chris: Using Carer Statistics for Conservation(Zip file)
• Neihoff, Margaret: Practical Management of Macropod with Toxoplasmosis

• Neilly, Brendon: Carer creching, the benefits of being together 
• Parsons, Heather: Balancing the Protein Content within a Bird’s Diet.
• Pergolotti, Deborah: The Role of Carers In Disease Surveillance and Frog Conservation 
• Ramp, Dr Daniel: Sharing the environment: Counting the cost of wildlife mortality on roads

• Spence, Julie: The importance of identification of Microchiroptera
• Stepan: Considerations for release of Wombats
• Stevenson, Lynda: Attempted relocation of Grey-headed flying foxes at Singleton, NSW- Great expectations and unexpected outcomes (large file)
• Trendler, Karen: The illegal pet trade & the wildlife industry in South Africa
• Twomey, Amanda: Management and Care of Small Marsupial
• Vella, Dr David: Wound care in reptiles
• Wood Judy: Caring for Flying-foxes - new challenges in a changing world
• Woods, Dr Rupert: Wildlife investigations and carers - an introduction to the Australian Wildlife Health Network