Werribee 2003

The first national wildlife conference was held in the grounds of the University of Victoria, Werribee from Monday 30th June to Wednesday 2nd July. This conference was entitled "Coming Together" a National Conference on Wildlife Rehabilitation.
The Organising Committee was Greg Gordon (also Master of Ceremonies), Peter Myroniuk, Gayle Chappell and Jon Rowdon.
At this point we only have a few of the papers posted on this site, but we are currently endeavoring to track more of them down, and will add them to this site as they become available.

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Presentations

The following is the list of  presentations made at the first conference . We don't have copies for many of the presentations, but will post all that are available:
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.  

• Apgar, Marra: Overview of a successful wildlife rehabilitation group
• Butcher, June: Bilby magic - Kanyana style
• Chappell, Gayle: How wildlife care informs conservation knowledge base
  
• Clumpner, Curt: Considerations for release criteria
• Clumpner, Curt: Rehabilitation of Northern Gannets during Prestige oil spill
• Clumpner, Curt: Waterproofing in aquatic animals
• Coupland et al: A revision of artificial husbandry techniques od Vombatus ursinus tasminiensis and a new school of thought for hand raising wombats at Trowunna Wildlife Park
  
• Curtis,  Lee: Far North Queensland Wildlife Rescue
• Daniell, Dr Andrew: "Pandora Box" Artificial homes for wildlife
• Fowler, Dr Anne: Reptile Care

• Fowler, Anne: Advanced first aid techniques (workshop) 
  
• Fuller, Margaret: Back to the wild in the top end
  
• Gell, Robert: Wildlife Rehabilitation - an institutional perspective
• Gillespie, Wendy: Proactive vs reactive waterbird rescue
  
• Gipp, Gail: Wildcare Australia: practices and policies
• Gordon, Greg: An online course in rehabilitation of Australian native wildlife
• Gordon, Tehree: Helping hands
  
• Hanger, John & Tribe, Andrew: Animal welfare and wildlife care
  
• Healy, Marg & Jessop, Ros: Is Little Penguin rehabilitation worthwhile?
• Janssen, Tina: Prevention, clinical signs & treatment of common diseases in macropods
• Levy. Laurie: Winning for wildlife
• Lloyd, Chris: Accreditation of trainers
  
• Lumsden, Lindy: Microbats
• Middleton et al: Rehabilitation of wild birds - a veterinary perspective
  
• Miller, Dr Kelly: Human dimensions of wildlife management & rehabilitation
  
• Mustoe et al: Development of the Victorian Cetacean Strandings Network
• Myroniuk, Peter & Tomlin, Judith: Notheast Victoria bush fires: Wildlife Victoria response (Abstract) (PowerPoint) (Warning PPT is 5MB)
  
• Myroniuk, Peter & Tomlin, Judith: Wildlife rehabilitation training programs
  (Abstract) (PowerPoint)
  
• Neihoff, Margaret & McCarthy, Renee: Genetic Purity - to do or not to do
  
• Nottige et al: Monitoring rehabilitated Koalas at 2 Gold Coast release sites
• Perkins, Stephen & Creece, Jane: Wildlife rehabilitation at Barwon Prison
  
• Pollock, Dr Jim: Fractures in macropods
• Pope, Lawrence: The bat that got away
  
• Tribe, Andrew and Brown, Peter: Human side of wildlife care
  
• Waters, Ron: Rescue and rehabilitation of wildlife in Victoria: Regulatory considerations
• Wirth, Dr Hugh: Wildlife as pets
• Wood, Colleen: Koala (Workshop)
  
• Young & Bellamy: Caecal stasis in Ringtail Possums
• Zabinskas, Manfred & Donna: Wildlife rescue equipment and techniques