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Program Monday 1st May 2017 17:30 18:00 19:30 Registration desk opens Welcome reception / Icebreaker Ostani Bar, Hotel Realm Tuesday 2nd May 2017 7:30 8:30 8:35 8:40 9:00 9:30 10:00 11:00 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 12:15 13:30 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 13:45 14:00 14:15 14:30 14:45 15:30 15:45 16:00 16:15 16:30 16:45 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 8:45 9:15 9:45 10:15 11:00 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 12:15 13:30 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 14:00 14:15 14:30 14:45 15:30 15:45 16:00 16:15 16:30 16:45 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 8:30 8:45 9:00 9:15 9:30 9:45 10:00 10:15 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 12:00 12:15 13:30 13:45 14:00 14:15 14:30 14:45 15:30 16:45 16:45 17:00 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 17:10 17:13 17:16 17:19 17:22 17:25 17:28 17:31 17:34 17:10 17:13 17:16 17:19 17:32 17:25 17:28 17:31 17:34 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