Canberra 2025 Presentations
Day 1
Dr Colin Salter - Roads and wildlife: what can we do?
Robert Leach - Integrating wildlife into emergency management
Lauren Bassett - Wildlife rehabilitators - update and next steps
Frances Carleton - What is moral injury and do I have it?
Prof Steve Garlick - Wildlife caring and learning about nature.
Peggy Rismiller - Of monotremes and monitor lizards: Two climate change survivors.
Loriann Shibish - The gathering storm: Caring for wildlife in uncertain times.
Ellen Rasidi - Survival of a wedge tailed eagle after a hallux talon amputation.
Robert Leach - Integrating wildlife into emergency management
Lauren Bassett - Wildlife rehabilitators - update and next steps
Frances Carleton - What is moral injury and do I have it?
Prof Steve Garlick - Wildlife caring and learning about nature.
Peggy Rismiller - Of monotremes and monitor lizards: Two climate change survivors.
Loriann Shibish - The gathering storm: Caring for wildlife in uncertain times.
Ellen Rasidi - Survival of a wedge tailed eagle after a hallux talon amputation.
Day 2
Greg Gordon - Implications of climate change on the wildlife rehabilitator and the need for advanced training.
Sonja Elwood – Emergency Response for Wildlife - 5 Years on from the Black Summer Fires - Where are we now?
Megan Johnston - Lorikeet Paralysis Syndrome
Joanne Connolly & Dianne Lane – Pre-Release Health & Post-Release Fate of Rehabilitated Macropods.
Peggy McDonald - The Gang-Gang
Yolandi Vermaak – Wombat Abundance: Perception vs. Reality in a Changing Climate
Panel Session
Kerryn Parry-Jones – Do Rehabilitated and Hand-reared Flying-foxes Survive in the Wild?
Fiona Ryan – Building Capacity for Assessing Native Wildlife within General Practice Veterinary Professionals
Sonja Elwood – Emergency Response for Wildlife - 5 Years on from the Black Summer Fires - Where are we now?
Megan Johnston - Lorikeet Paralysis Syndrome
Joanne Connolly & Dianne Lane – Pre-Release Health & Post-Release Fate of Rehabilitated Macropods.
Peggy McDonald - The Gang-Gang
Yolandi Vermaak – Wombat Abundance: Perception vs. Reality in a Changing Climate
Panel Session
Kerryn Parry-Jones – Do Rehabilitated and Hand-reared Flying-foxes Survive in the Wild?
Fiona Ryan – Building Capacity for Assessing Native Wildlife within General Practice Veterinary Professionals
Day 3
Vicky Wilkinson and Rosie Stott – H5 bird flu prevention and preparedness using the Wildlife Health Australia risk mitigation toolbox for wildlife care providers.
Rebecca Millsteed – Human activity in the urban environment impacts habitat choice and survival of Tiliqua rugosa rugosa within the Perth Metropolitan Area.
Joanne Connolly – Diseases in Marsupials.
Zara Bennett – Victorian Wildlife Rehabilitation Guidelines.
Jacqui Marlow and Jess Crauss – Urban Owls – giving a hoot about outcomes.
Dr Rosemary Austen & Prof Steve Garlick – Macropod Fence Hangers: Questions remain regarding successful treatment; especially in relation to stress.
Fiona Ryan – Preparedness for and Response to Wildlife During Disasters.
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.
Rebecca Millsteed – Human activity in the urban environment impacts habitat choice and survival of Tiliqua rugosa rugosa within the Perth Metropolitan Area.
Joanne Connolly – Diseases in Marsupials.
Zara Bennett – Victorian Wildlife Rehabilitation Guidelines.
Jacqui Marlow and Jess Crauss – Urban Owls – giving a hoot about outcomes.
Dr Rosemary Austen & Prof Steve Garlick – Macropod Fence Hangers: Questions remain regarding successful treatment; especially in relation to stress.
Fiona Ryan – Preparedness for and Response to Wildlife During Disasters.
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.
