Download Program - Australasian Vertebrate Pest Conference

Program
Monday 1st May 2017
17:30
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19:30
Registration desk opens
Welcome reception / Icebreaker
Ostani Bar, Hotel Realm
Tuesday 2nd May 2017
7:30
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Registration desk opens
Welcome: Bruce Christie – Chair of the Invasive Plants and Animals Committee
Welcome to Country
Official opening: TBC
Plenary 1: Andreas Glanznig – Invasive Animals CRC
Topic Australian developments and outlook
Plenary 2: A pest-free NZ by 2050
Dan Tompkins – Landcare Research – Manaaki Whenua, New Zealand
Plenary 3: The US perspective: challenges and directions in invasive and overabundant animal
research
Kurt VerCauteren - National Wildlife Research Center, USDA
10:30 – 11:00 Morning tea break
11:00 – 12:30 Concurrent sessions
Concurrent session 1A
Concurrent session 1B
Prevention / incursions
Control: biocontrol
Chair: Andrew Bengsen
Chair: Tanja Strive
Community-based invasive species
11:00 Cyprinid herpesvirus 3: a potential biological
surveillance- bringing innovation to
control for carp in Australia
information sharing and improved
Ken McColl
management
Peter West
Frontiers and lessons in island eradications:
11:15
the case of foxes on Phillip Island
Duncan Sutherland
Making inference from wildlife collision data:
11:30 Gene Drive and the potential to control
inferring predator absence from prey strikes
vertebrate pests
Peter Caley
Mark Tizard
Advanced remote acoustic surveillance
11:45
technology at a “real-time” invasion front
Susan Campbell
Using wildlife camera for invasive turtle
12:00 Immune response of common carp, Cyprinus
surveillance
carpio, to cyprinid herpesvirus 3 infection:
Ryan Melville
implications for viral control
Matthew Neave
Development of a NSW tilapia incursion
12:15 Trojan Y genetic control for Gambusia
response plan: failure to plan is a plan to fail
holbrooki: rationale, progress and challenges
Victoria Greentree
Jawahar Patil
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00 Concurrent sessions
Concurrent session 2A
Concurrent session 2B
Prevention / incursions
Control: biocontrol
Chair: Michelle Christy
Chair Tanja Strive
The application of DNA to wildlife surveillance 13:30 The release and tracking of RHDVs in
Stephen Sarre
Australia’s rabbit population
Tarnya Cox
Program
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From faeces to foxes: using genetics to
manage an invasive predator for wildlife
conservation
Anna MacDonald
Sensitive invasive species surveys using
environmental DNA
Elise Furlan
Impact of environmental variables in eDNA
detection
Rheyda Hinlo
Optimizing sampling protocols for fish
community assessments through
environmental DNA metabarcoding
Jonas Bylemans
13:45
Maximising the impact of RHDV K5 in
Victoria
John Matthews
14:00
Fly traps as a tool for monitoring RHDV
Amy Iannella
14:15
RHDV2 in the Australian landscape: 20152016
Robyn Hall
14:30 Recovering the epidemiology of wildlife
disease from viral sequence data: the
phylodynamics of the rabbit haemorrhagic
disease virus
Carlo Pacoini
Targeting ‘gen one’: a scalable strategy for
14:45 The different roles of Myxomatosis and RHD
detecting and responding to rat incursions in
in the suppression of the Turretfield rabbit
predator-free landscapes
population
Helen Nathan
David Peacock
15:00 – 15:30 Afternoon tea break
15:30 – 17:00 Concurrent sessions
Concurrent session 3A
Concurrent session 3B
Control: tactical tools
Institutions/program management
Chair: Bruce Warburton
Chair: Julie Quinn
Development of the rat specific toxin
15:30 National wild dog action plan
Norbormide
Jane Littlejohn
Charles Eason
Feral pig control and secondary poisoning
15:45 Integrating ecological research and human
risks from using Pigout®
dimensions: improving feral pig
Peter Adams
management by fostering innovative
community engagement
Darren Marshall
Anticoagulant rodenticides in the
16:00 Facilitating the strategic management of wild
environment: excretion as a residue transfer
dogs throughout Australia: how are we
pathway
tracking after ten years
Penny Fisher
Greg Mifsud
Target specificity of Felixer grooming traps
16:15 Shared problem shared solution: a review of
John Read
pest animal management in New South
Wales
Bryce Wilde
Catastrophic cat predation and the 1080
16:30 What is in the national pest management
implant that should stop it dead
datasets
Maria-Olga Bargsted Aravena
Nyree Stenekes
Developing an aerial PAPP bait for landscape
16:45 Assessing the extent and abundance of pest
stoat control in New Zealand
animal populations across NSW through
Elaine Murphy
expert knowledge
Alyssa Trotter
17:00 – 17:10 Break
17:10 – 17:40 Speed Talk Session 1
17:40 – 18:10 Poster session 1
18:10 – 18:45 Change for dinner
18:45 – 19:30 Invasive Animals CRC Celebration and Thank You event
19:30 – 23:00 Conference Dinner
Program
Wednesday 3rd May 2017
8:30
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13:45
Welcome and housekeeping
Plenary 4: Why won’t they just listen to us?
Craig Cormick – Think Outside The and Australian Science Communicators
Plenary 5: Making shared responsibility real.
Paul Martin – University of New England
Plenary 6: Beyond the Borders: taking incursion management to the next level
Michelle Christy – Department of Agriculture and Food, WA
ACTA award
Presented by Linton Staples
10:30 – 11:00 Morning tea break
11:00 – 12:30 Concurrent sessions
Concurrent session 4A
Concurrent session 4B
control: tactical tools
institutions / program management
Chair: Elaine Murphy
Chair: Bertie Hennecke
Remotely sensed feral buffalo damage in
11:00 What impediments are you facing in periKakadu National Park: comparing drone and
urban invasive species control? Institutional
satellite based imagery for future
expectations for invasive animal
management
management in peri-urban Australia
Stewart Pittard
Vivek Nemane
An investigation into the use of thermal
11:15 Test our organisational learning: an
cameras for detecting feral pigs during aerial
empirically based T.O.O.L. for assessing
surveys of the Lowbidgee floodplain
continuous improvement in the
Suzie Holbery
management of invasive species
Katrina Dickson
Assessing the field efficacy of Hoggone® feral
11:30 Established invasive species animal training
pig bait, containing sodium nitrite, for
program – building organisational capacity
controlling feral pigs in Australia
and the next generation of EIA managers
Jason Wishart
Nigel Roberts
The economics of monitoring traps with
11:45 Threatened Species Strategy: update on feral
wireless networks
cat management.
Bruce Warburton
Sam Dutton
Uptake of feral cat baits in Eastern Australia
James Speed
12:00
Minjerribah’s most wanted: multistakeholder approaches to conservation,
prioritising actions to preserve out nature
Hernan Caceres
Separating the twitter from the chatter:
12:15 What is missing from feral pig management
monitoring and forecasting mouse plagues in
– comparisons between the USA and
Australian grain-growing regions
Australia
Steve Henry
Linton Staples and Kurt VerCauteren
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00 Concurrent sessions
Concurrent session 5A
Concurrent session 5B
Control: Tactical Tools
Community led action
Chair: Lyn Hinds
Chair: Paul Martin
Fertility control for wildlife management:
13:30 “The community won’t be ignored”: lessons
good, better, best
for community engagement from case
Douglas Eckery
studies in wild dog management
Tanya Howard
Laboratory evaluation of the effectiveness of
13:45 Has fifteen years of perseverance lead to the
the contraceptive bait, Contrapest®, on wildevolution of successful community
captured black rats (Rattus rattus)
involvement in vertebrate pest
Brandy Pyzyna
management?
Rhett Robinson
Program
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Managing macropod populations in peri14:00 Community pest control – the successful
urban situations: remote delivery of a fertility
Canberra experience with the common myna
control vaccine
Bill Handke
Claire Wimpenny
Implementing implants: efficacy and
14:15 Understanding inaction: why do landholders
efficiency of Levonorgestrel for fertility
fail to participate in pest animal
control of peri-urban grey kangaroos
management?
Graeme Coulson
Donald Hine
Can long-term fertility control of
14:30 Improving participation through application
overabundance koala populations mitigate
of human behavioural approaches: a cat
their impacts on eucalyptus forests?
management case study
Dave Ramsay
Lynette McLeod
Evaluation of a potential fertility control bait
14:45 Use of public bird counts to assist in
for wild pigs
surveillance for exotic birds
Brandy Pyzyna
Ryan Melville
15:00 – 15:30 Afternoon tea break
15:30 – 17:00 Concurrent sessions
Concurrent session 6A
Concurrent session 6B
Open session 1
Community led action
Chair: Dave Ramsey
Chair: Don Hine
Rabbit eradication at Mulligans Flat woodland 15:30 Wild dog management groups in Australia:
sanctuary
how well are they functioning?
Mark Sweaney
Robert Kancans
Outcomes of the 2016 national workshop in
15:45 Insights into facilitating cooperative
management of wild deer impacts
approaches for rabbit management
David Forsyth
Michael Reid
Management of an expanding chital deer
16:00 Promoting community reporting of peripopulation in north Queensland
urban wild dogs. A partnership approach to
Tony Pople
behaviour change
Patty Please
What do South Australians think about feral
16:15 Wild dogs in north eastern NSW: how did we
deer and how their views influence
get here and where are we going?
management
Peter Fleming
Annelise Wiebkin
Fiddling while Rome burns- “compassionate
16:30 How late is too late? Managing the impacts
conservation” is neither
of wild deer on private land in the upper
Peter Fleming
Murray
Lyn Coulston
Implementing effective pest management
16:45 Session discussion
Mike Braysher
17:00 – 17:10 Break
17:00 – 17:10 Break
Field trip – pre booking essential
17:10 – 17:40 Speed Talk Session 2
17:20
First tour departs – returns 20:10
17:40 – 18:30 Poster session 2
18:50
Second tour departs – returns 21:40
Program
Thursday 4th May 2017
8:25
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11:00
11:15
11:30
11:45
8:25- 10:30 concurrent sessions
Concurrent session 7A
Concurrent session 7B
Open session 2
Community led action
Chair: Malcolm Kennedy
Chair: Lynette McLeod
Welcome and housekeeping
8:25
Welcome and housekeeping
Home range and habitat utilisation of feral
8:30
Wild for Taranaki – a community led
cats (Felis catus) in central Queensland
response to protecting Taranaki’s natural
Cameron Wilson
treasure
Steve Ellis
Red Fox movement at a flatback turtle
8:45
Community involvement in pest control – a
rookery in the Pilbara, Western Australia
case study of accredited volunteer shooting
John-Michael Stuart
programs
Mathew Godson
Developing a monitoring program for aerial
9:00
Who is controlling wild canids?
and ground surveys of waterfowl in NSW
Trish Fleming
Shannon Dundas
Feeding ecology of an invasive predator
9:15
Are we ready to go online? Communicating
across an urban land-use gradient
the national release of RHDV1 K5
Ben Stepkovitch
Ian McDonald
Undermining possum-centric eradication of
9:30
RHDV Boost – community preparation on a
bovine tuberculosis from wildlife: are ferrets
national scale
sometimes independent hosts?
Emma Sawyers
Graham Nugent
Understanding red fox (Vulpes vulpes) habitat 9:45
Only an engaged and informed community
in urban environments
can lead the way to sustained long term
John Martin
rabbit control
Alex Thorp
A protocol for estimating dingo-wild dog
10:00 Self empowered peri-urban community led
abundance and density
planning for invasive animal management
David Forsyth
Darryl Low Choy
The influence of wild dogs, herbivores and
10:15 Community engagement for invasive species
climate on vegetation in Australian
management: take home messages from a
ecosystems
four year collaboration
Helen Morgan
Tanya Howard
10:30 – 11:00 Morning tea break
11:00 – 12:30 Concurrent sessions
Concurrent session 8A
Concurrent session 8B
Control: Strategies
Community + Transformative ideas
Chair: Peter Fleming
Chair: Peter Brown
Background to the development of Hoggone
11:00 A new paradigm for invasive species
Linton Staples
management: application of a systems
strengthening approach
Sharyn Williams
Managing pests with exclusion fences:
11:15 Feral tales that make engagement happen:
progress and potential biodiversity benefits
how stories can shape our views, our
Lee Allen
actions, our learning
Jessica Marsh
The application of genetics to improving peri- 11:30 Evaluation of the IA CRC principles-based
urban wild dog management
multi-disciplinary research program to
Matt Gentle
improve human issues of invasive species
management
Paul Martin
Population reduction is more important than
11:45 A bio-economic decision process for
limiting immigration in a proposed large wild
broadscale eradication or containment of
Program
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dog cell
Malcolm Kennedy
Do dingoes suppress feral cats? spatial and
temporal activity of sympatric feral cats and
dingoes in central Queensland
Bronwyn Fancourt
Does wild dog control alter feral cat activity?
Tracey Kreplins
invasive pests
Dean Anderson
12:00 Principles of applied ecology: a
transformative idea for vertebrate pest
management?
Jim Hone
12:15 Transforming conflict into collaboration: new
tools for old problems of stakeholder
engagement
Greg Mifsud
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00 Concurrent sessions
Concurrent session 9A
Concurrent session 9B
Control: strategies
Open session 3
Chair: Matt Gentle
Chair: Stephen Sarre
Kangaroos and conservation in the bush
13:30 Rabbits do love their veg! Rabbit impacts on
capital: not rocket science
horticulture in Queensland
Melissa Snape
Peter Elsworth
Movement of eastern grey kangaroos in
13:45 Habitat modelling of predators in Tasmania
Canberra: implications for management and
inferred by DNA-based detection of
control.
carnivore scats
Renee Brawata
Stephen Sarre / Elodie Modave
Native pest management: Kangaroo
14:00 Does the hybridisation of Tasmanian and
overpopulation
mainland Australian brushtail possums
Calista Cameron
inhibit dispersal in New Zealand?
Implications for management
Catriona Campbell
Towards a feral cat management strategy for
14:15 Maintaining the capability pipeline: IA CRC
Hattah-Kulkyne National Park: estimation of
Balanced Researcher Program
cat density, bait uptake and comparisons of
Stephen Sarre / Tony Buckmaster
management strategies
Alan Robley
Destruction of drought refuge rabbit warrens
14:30 Dung distribution: the first step for Pilliga
to control rabbits on Bulloo Downs: finishing
feral horse management
a 20 year long project
David Wurst
Dave Berman
Opportunities to improve pest species
14:45 Density-dependent effects of rabbit
mapping through the use of ultra-highbrowsing on Australian native vegetation
definition aerial survey techniques
Greg Mutze
Suzy Holbery
15:00 – 15:30 Afternoon tea break
15:30 – 17:00 Plenary sessions sessions
Discussion Panel – Future technologies in pest animal management
Host / chair: Paul Barclay – Big Ideas, ABC Radio National
Panellists
Dr Edie McDonald – Department of Conservation – Te Papa Atawhai, New Zealand
Dr Mark Tizard – CSIRO
Dr Bidda Jones – RSPCA Australia
Dr Karl Campbell – Island Conservation, Galapagos
Prizes and awards: TBC
Conference close: TBC
Program
Poster with 3 minute speed talk program
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Speed talk session 1
Tuesday 2nd May 2017
What can camera traps and hunter bags tell us about the growth and spread of deer populations?
Andrew Bengsen
Applying a standard biosecurity response tool to high risk vertebrate incursions
Jesse Miller
A strategy for effectively managing feral pig impacts in agricultural enterprises in northern
Queensland
Peter Cremasco
Creeping cats caught out! Using ultrasonic deterrents to keep cats our of urban backyards
Heather Crawford
Directed experimental evolution of rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus
Robyn Hall
The IAP2 spectrum of public participation: a useful tool for communication and engagement
activities in the pest animal world
Dana Price
Opportunity from a menace: feral pigs to Feraliser
Stephanie von Gavel
1000 pictures is worth how many words?
Jessica Marsh
An integrated and coordinated landscape-scale approach to vertebrate pest control and
monitoring
Sally Jacka
Speed talk session 2
Wednesday 3rd May 2017
Exploring natural and engineered gene drives for eradications of invasive rodent populations
Royden saah
Who has the data?
Roxane Blackley
Interpreting environmental DNA metabarcoding results to infer biodiversity
Elise Furlan
Assessing the effects of feral deer management on endangered alpine peatlands: the Alpine
National Park Deer Control Trial
Daniel Brown
Engaging the community to help protect our native fish from aquatic pests such as Redfin Perch
Karina Worrell
Kangaroo Island feral cat control trials 2016-2018: guiding an island eradication
Pat Hodgens
The detox-toad: combining CRISPR gene editing and conditioned taste aversion, new horizons for
gene technology in cane toad control
Mark Tizard
Wild dog aware
Bernadette York
Dietary analysis of feral pigs from the southwest of Western Australia
Joe Porter
Program
Poster session (both days)
Poster Title / Author
Differential diagnostic of rabbit caliciviruses circulating in Australia
Tanja Strive
Biological control of tilapia: a potential virus
Ken McColl
Origins of the benign rabbit calicivirus in Australia
Jackie Mahar
Detection of RHDV2 in European brown hares (Lepus europaeus) in Australia
Robyn Hall
The impact of RHDV2 on rabbit populations across Australia
Tarnya Cox
Lessons from experience: a multidisciplinary research team pursuing maximum value to end-users in the
shortest possible time
Paul Martin
Threat abatement policy for the environmental impacts of rabbits
Julie Quinn
Threat abatement policy for the environmental impacts of feral pigs
Julie Quinn
Detection of a recombinant RHDVa isolate in Australia
Jackie Mahar