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ICTC 2023 Program

Please note that the program is subject to change without notice. 

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Thursday, November 9, 2023

Pre Conference Workshop
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Pre-Conference Workshop: Training for effective translocations (9-12 November 2023)
Facilitated by Dr Kevin Parker, Dr Zoe Stone, Dr Johannes Fischer, Professor Philip Seddon, Professor Doug Armstrong, Dr Axel Moehrenschlager. This four day pre-conference workshop will be held at the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle from 9-12 November 2023 - Room 117, Building ND36 (ND36/117), University of Notre Dame, Fremantle
Pre Conference Workshop
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Pre-Conference Workshop: Training for effective translocations (9-12 November 2023)
Facilitated by Dr Kevin Parker, Dr Zoe Stone, Dr Johannes Fischer, Professor Philip Seddon, Professor Doug Armstrong, Dr Axel Moehrenschlager. This four day pre-conference workshop will be held at the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle from 9-12 November 2023 - Room 117, Building ND36 (ND36/117), University of Notre Dame, Fremantle

Pre Conference Workshop
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Pre-Conference Workshop: Training for effective translocations (9-12 November 2023)
Facilitated by Dr Kevin Parker, Dr Zoe Stone, Dr Johannes Fischer, Professor Philip Seddon, Professor Doug Armstrong, Dr Axel Moehrenschlager. This four day pre-conference workshop will be held at the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle from 9-12 November 2023 - Room 117, Building ND36 (ND36/117), University of Notre Dame, Fremantle

Sunday, November 12, 2023

Pre Conference Workshop
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Pre-Conference Workshop: So you have genetic data, how do you use it for your translocations? (Sunday 12 November)
Facilitated by Professor Carolyn Hogg, Dr Kym Ottewell and Dr Elspeth McLennan at The University of Notre Dame, Fremantle
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Welcome and Networking Drinks
Pre Conference Workshop
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Pre-Conference Workshop: So you have genetic data, how do you use it for your translocations? (Sunday 12 November)
Facilitated by Professor Carolyn Hogg, Dr Kym Ottewell and Dr Elspeth McLennan at The University of Notre Dame, Fremantle
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Welcome and Networking Drinks

Pre Conference Workshop
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Pre-Conference Workshop: So you have genetic data, how do you use it for your translocations? (Sunday 12 November)
Facilitated by Professor Carolyn Hogg, Dr Kym Ottewell and Dr Elspeth McLennan at The University of Notre Dame, Fremantle
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Welcome and Networking Drinks

Monday, November 13, 2023

Main Conference Program - Day 1
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM OPENING SESSION
Welcome to Country and Conference Opening
Welcome to Country - Aunty Marie Taylor
Conference Opening - Dr Saul Cowen, Chair, ICTC 2023 Organising Committee
Welcome Message - Platinum Sponsor, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions - Dr Margaret Byrne
Welcome Message - Dr Axel Moehrenschlager, Chair, IUCN SSC Conservation Translocation Specialist Group
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Plenary - Center for Plant Conservation Resources for Improving Success and Advancing Conservation Translocation Science - Dr Joyce Maschinski
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Success through failure: learning from the past (1)
Session Chair: Associate Professor Katherine Moseby
9:30 AM - 9:40 AM Using monitoring data effectively to improve our predictions about translocation outcomes - Professor Doug Armstrong
9:40 AM - 9:50 AM The challenge of designing meaningful success criteria for conservation translocations in the face of uncertainty - Dr Saul Cowen
9:50 AM - 10:00 AM Understanding the political, social and economic barriers to species reintroduction - Erin Phillips
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning tea (Monday) - including Speakers' Corner
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Success through failure: learning from the past (2)
Session Chair: Associate Professor Katherine Moseby
10:30 AM - 10:40 AM Post release hyperdispersal: an underacknowledged contributor to translocation failure - Associate Professor Katherine Moseby
10:40 AM - 10:50 AM Navigating a path to recovery for kiwikiu: a Hawaiian finch in peril - Dr Hanna Mounce
10:50 AM - 11:00 AM Short-term trial reintroductions of two Extinct in the Wild reptiles to Christmas Island - Dr Jon-Paul Emery
11:00 AM - 11:10 AM Learning from past translocations and conservation programs to reintroduce the Eastern Bristlebird to Wilsons Promontory in south-eastern Australia - Dr Dean Portelli
11:10 AM - 11:20 AM Past and present of conservation translocations in Galapagos. What can we change for the future: The Floreana mockingbird reintroduction case - Dr Enzo M R. Reyes
11:20 AM - 11:35 AM
Quick refresh break (1)
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Plant translocations (1)
Session Chair: Leonie Monks
11:35 AM - 11:45 AM Development of a Plant Translocation Database for the European continent - Dr Sarah E Dalrymple
11:45 AM - 11:55 AM Pua o Te Rēinga, Te Kura i Huna: Kaupapa Māori approaches to reindigenising taonga species translocations - Aaria Ripeka Dobson-Waitere
11:55 AM - 12:05 PM Plant translocations: Ensuring long-term success by understanding the influence of habitat in a changing world and applying effective success criteria - Nadline Kjelsberg
12:05 PM - 12:15 PM Having a look at translocated plant species across European countries: is there a bias in phylogenetic or functional diversity? - Dr Filipa Coutinho Soares
12:15 PM - 12:25 PM Genetic rescue of the Coastal Fontainea (Fontainea oraria) a critically endangered rainforest tree from NSW - Dianne Brown
12:25 PM - 12:35 PM Measuring and managing genetic erosion in plant translocation: lessons from Grevillea scapigera - Dr Siegy Krauss
12:35 PM - 12:45 PM Genetic and mating system assessments of translocated populations of threatened flora - Leonie Monks
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Lunch (Monday) - including Speakers Corner
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Plant translocations (2)
Session Chair: Leonie Monks
1:45 PM - 1:55 PM Showcasing the applicability and effectiveness of conservation genomic studies using our simple, standardised workflows - Dr Jia-yee Yap
1:55 PM - 2:05 PM Mitigation Translocation Challenges in Vale's Amazon Operations: Mitigating in the Absence of Specific Policies - Fernando Santos
2:05 PM - 2:15 PM Achieving conservation outcomes in plant mitigation translocations; the need for global standards - Chantelle Doyle
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS (SPEED TALKS)
Session Chair: Leonie Monks
2:15 PM - 2:20 PM Genetic diversity targets when recovering threatened species through rebuilding metapopulations - Dr Jennifer Pierson
2:20 PM - 2:25 PM Large-scale, multi-species plant translocation in the Jarrah Forest - Dr Lucy Commander
2:25 PM - 2:30 PM Mitigation translocations: the ugly stepsisters of the translocation world - Dr Jen Germano
2:35 PM - 2:40 PM
Quick refresh break (2)
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Assisted colonisation to address the threat of climate change
Session Chair: Bryony Palmer
2:40 PM - 2:50 PM Translocation in the era of climate change: strategies against acute threats from global warming to reintroduced migratory Northern Bald Ibises - Dr Johannes Fritz
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM Assessing a trail translocation of the endangered pygmy bluetonue lizard: does source location affect outcomes? - Professor Mike Gardner
3:00 PM - 3:10 PM 15 years in: lessons being learned from assisted colonisation trials of Australia's most threatened turtle - Professor Nicola Mitchell
3:10 PM - 3:20 PM Evaluating the success of assisted colonisation trials to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands for an Extinct in the Wild skink - Kristen Schubert
3:20 PM - 3:30 PM A combination approach: Maximum entropy modelling and fieldwork to assess the suitability of historical habitat for the endangered pygmy bluetongue - Kimberley Michael
3:30 PM - 3:40 PM Assisted Colonisation of the Critically Endangered Western Swamp Turtle: Insights from Non-Invasive eDNA Approaches - Bethany Nordstrom
3:40 PM - 3:50 PM Is it time for assisted colonisation of the critically endangered Leadbeater’s possum given risks posed by bushfire and climate change? - Darcy Watchorn
3:50 PM - 4:25 PM Afternoon tea (Monday) - including Speakers Corner
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - The effect of translocation on ecological communities
Session Chair: Bryony Palmer
4:25 PM - 4:35 PM Conservation translocations of bioturbators for ecosystem change - Dr Leonie Valentine
4:35 PM - 4:45 PM Understanding the trophic interactions and impacts of reintroduced mammals using scatDNA - Dr Linda Neaves
4:45 PM - 4:55 PM A review of mammalian carnivore translocations – prey impacts, ecosystem effects, and a case study in arid Australia - Ben Stepkovitch
4:55 PM - 5:05 PM Optimizing responsible translocations of displaced organisms - Julie Sherman
5:10 PM - 6:00 PM ICTC 2023 Poster Session (Monday)
Main Conference Program - Day 1
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM OPENING SESSION
Welcome to Country and Conference Opening
Welcome to Country - Aunty Marie Taylor
Conference Opening - Dr Saul Cowen, Chair, ICTC 2023 Organising Committee
Welcome Message - Platinum Sponsor, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions - Dr Margaret Byrne
Welcome Message - Dr Axel Moehrenschlager, Chair, IUCN SSC Conservation Translocation Specialist Group
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Plenary - Center for Plant Conservation Resources for Improving Success and Advancing Conservation Translocation Science - Dr Joyce Maschinski
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Success through failure: learning from the past (1)
Session Chair: Associate Professor Katherine Moseby
9:30 AM - 9:40 AM Using monitoring data effectively to improve our predictions about translocation outcomes - Professor Doug Armstrong
9:40 AM - 9:50 AM The challenge of designing meaningful success criteria for conservation translocations in the face of uncertainty - Dr Saul Cowen
9:50 AM - 10:00 AM Understanding the political, social and economic barriers to species reintroduction - Erin Phillips
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning tea (Monday) - including Speakers' Corner
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Success through failure: learning from the past (2)
Session Chair: Associate Professor Katherine Moseby
10:30 AM - 10:40 AM Post release hyperdispersal: an underacknowledged contributor to translocation failure - Associate Professor Katherine Moseby
10:40 AM - 10:50 AM Navigating a path to recovery for kiwikiu: a Hawaiian finch in peril - Dr Hanna Mounce
10:50 AM - 11:00 AM Short-term trial reintroductions of two Extinct in the Wild reptiles to Christmas Island - Dr Jon-Paul Emery
11:00 AM - 11:10 AM Learning from past translocations and conservation programs to reintroduce the Eastern Bristlebird to Wilsons Promontory in south-eastern Australia - Dr Dean Portelli
11:10 AM - 11:20 AM Past and present of conservation translocations in Galapagos. What can we change for the future: The Floreana mockingbird reintroduction case - Dr Enzo M R. Reyes
11:20 AM - 11:35 AM
Quick refresh break (1)
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Plant translocations (1)
Session Chair: Leonie Monks
11:35 AM - 11:45 AM Development of a Plant Translocation Database for the European continent - Dr Sarah E Dalrymple
11:45 AM - 11:55 AM Pua o Te Rēinga, Te Kura i Huna: Kaupapa Māori approaches to reindigenising taonga species translocations - Aaria Ripeka Dobson-Waitere
11:55 AM - 12:05 PM Plant translocations: Ensuring long-term success by understanding the influence of habitat in a changing world and applying effective success criteria - Nadline Kjelsberg
12:05 PM - 12:15 PM Having a look at translocated plant species across European countries: is there a bias in phylogenetic or functional diversity? - Dr Filipa Coutinho Soares
12:15 PM - 12:25 PM Genetic rescue of the Coastal Fontainea (Fontainea oraria) a critically endangered rainforest tree from NSW - Dianne Brown
12:25 PM - 12:35 PM Measuring and managing genetic erosion in plant translocation: lessons from Grevillea scapigera - Dr Siegy Krauss
12:35 PM - 12:45 PM Genetic and mating system assessments of translocated populations of threatened flora - Leonie Monks
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Lunch (Monday) - including Speakers Corner
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Plant translocations (2)
Session Chair: Leonie Monks
1:45 PM - 1:55 PM Showcasing the applicability and effectiveness of conservation genomic studies using our simple, standardised workflows - Dr Jia-yee Yap
1:55 PM - 2:05 PM Mitigation Translocation Challenges in Vale's Amazon Operations: Mitigating in the Absence of Specific Policies - Fernando Santos
2:05 PM - 2:15 PM Achieving conservation outcomes in plant mitigation translocations; the need for global standards - Chantelle Doyle
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS (SPEED TALKS)
Session Chair: Leonie Monks
2:15 PM - 2:20 PM Genetic diversity targets when recovering threatened species through rebuilding metapopulations - Dr Jennifer Pierson
2:20 PM - 2:25 PM Large-scale, multi-species plant translocation in the Jarrah Forest - Dr Lucy Commander
2:25 PM - 2:30 PM Mitigation translocations: the ugly stepsisters of the translocation world - Dr Jen Germano
2:35 PM - 2:40 PM
Quick refresh break (2)
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Assisted colonisation to address the threat of climate change
Session Chair: Bryony Palmer
2:40 PM - 2:50 PM Translocation in the era of climate change: strategies against acute threats from global warming to reintroduced migratory Northern Bald Ibises - Dr Johannes Fritz
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM Assessing a trail translocation of the endangered pygmy bluetonue lizard: does source location affect outcomes? - Professor Mike Gardner
3:00 PM - 3:10 PM 15 years in: lessons being learned from assisted colonisation trials of Australia's most threatened turtle - Professor Nicola Mitchell
3:10 PM - 3:20 PM Evaluating the success of assisted colonisation trials to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands for an Extinct in the Wild skink - Kristen Schubert
3:20 PM - 3:30 PM A combination approach: Maximum entropy modelling and fieldwork to assess the suitability of historical habitat for the endangered pygmy bluetongue - Kimberley Michael
3:30 PM - 3:40 PM Assisted Colonisation of the Critically Endangered Western Swamp Turtle: Insights from Non-Invasive eDNA Approaches - Bethany Nordstrom
3:40 PM - 3:50 PM Is it time for assisted colonisation of the critically endangered Leadbeater’s possum given risks posed by bushfire and climate change? - Darcy Watchorn
3:50 PM - 4:25 PM Afternoon tea (Monday) - including Speakers Corner
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - The effect of translocation on ecological communities
Session Chair: Bryony Palmer
4:25 PM - 4:35 PM Conservation translocations of bioturbators for ecosystem change - Dr Leonie Valentine
4:35 PM - 4:45 PM Understanding the trophic interactions and impacts of reintroduced mammals using scatDNA - Dr Linda Neaves
4:45 PM - 4:55 PM A review of mammalian carnivore translocations – prey impacts, ecosystem effects, and a case study in arid Australia - Ben Stepkovitch
4:55 PM - 5:05 PM Optimizing responsible translocations of displaced organisms - Julie Sherman
5:10 PM - 6:00 PM ICTC 2023 Poster Session (Monday)

Main Conference Program - Day 1
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM OPENING SESSION
Welcome to Country and Conference Opening
Welcome to Country - Aunty Marie Taylor
Conference Opening - Dr Saul Cowen, Chair, ICTC 2023 Organising Committee
Welcome Message - Platinum Sponsor, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions - Dr Margaret Byrne
Welcome Message - Dr Axel Moehrenschlager, Chair, IUCN SSC Conservation Translocation Specialist Group
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Plenary - Center for Plant Conservation Resources for Improving Success and Advancing Conservation Translocation Science - Dr Joyce Maschinski
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Success through failure: learning from the past (1)
Session Chair: Associate Professor Katherine Moseby
9:30 AM - 9:40 AM Using monitoring data effectively to improve our predictions about translocation outcomes - Professor Doug Armstrong
9:40 AM - 9:50 AM The challenge of designing meaningful success criteria for conservation translocations in the face of uncertainty - Dr Saul Cowen
9:50 AM - 10:00 AM Understanding the political, social and economic barriers to species reintroduction - Erin Phillips
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning tea (Monday) - including Speakers' Corner
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Success through failure: learning from the past (2)
Session Chair: Associate Professor Katherine Moseby
10:30 AM - 10:40 AM Post release hyperdispersal: an underacknowledged contributor to translocation failure - Associate Professor Katherine Moseby
10:40 AM - 10:50 AM Navigating a path to recovery for kiwikiu: a Hawaiian finch in peril - Dr Hanna Mounce
10:50 AM - 11:00 AM Short-term trial reintroductions of two Extinct in the Wild reptiles to Christmas Island - Dr Jon-Paul Emery
11:00 AM - 11:10 AM Learning from past translocations and conservation programs to reintroduce the Eastern Bristlebird to Wilsons Promontory in south-eastern Australia - Dr Dean Portelli
11:10 AM - 11:20 AM Past and present of conservation translocations in Galapagos. What can we change for the future: The Floreana mockingbird reintroduction case - Dr Enzo M R. Reyes
11:20 AM - 11:35 AM
Quick refresh break (1)
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Plant translocations (1)
Session Chair: Leonie Monks
11:35 AM - 11:45 AM Development of a Plant Translocation Database for the European continent - Dr Sarah E Dalrymple
11:45 AM - 11:55 AM Pua o Te Rēinga, Te Kura i Huna: Kaupapa Māori approaches to reindigenising taonga species translocations - Aaria Ripeka Dobson-Waitere
11:55 AM - 12:05 PM Plant translocations: Ensuring long-term success by understanding the influence of habitat in a changing world and applying effective success criteria - Nadline Kjelsberg
12:05 PM - 12:15 PM Having a look at translocated plant species across European countries: is there a bias in phylogenetic or functional diversity? - Dr Filipa Coutinho Soares
12:15 PM - 12:25 PM Genetic rescue of the Coastal Fontainea (Fontainea oraria) a critically endangered rainforest tree from NSW - Dianne Brown
12:25 PM - 12:35 PM Measuring and managing genetic erosion in plant translocation: lessons from Grevillea scapigera - Dr Siegy Krauss
12:35 PM - 12:45 PM Genetic and mating system assessments of translocated populations of threatened flora - Leonie Monks
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Lunch (Monday) - including Speakers Corner
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Plant translocations (2)
Session Chair: Leonie Monks
1:45 PM - 1:55 PM Showcasing the applicability and effectiveness of conservation genomic studies using our simple, standardised workflows - Dr Jia-yee Yap
1:55 PM - 2:05 PM Mitigation Translocation Challenges in Vale's Amazon Operations: Mitigating in the Absence of Specific Policies - Fernando Santos
2:05 PM - 2:15 PM Achieving conservation outcomes in plant mitigation translocations; the need for global standards - Chantelle Doyle
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS (SPEED TALKS)
Session Chair: Leonie Monks
2:15 PM - 2:20 PM Genetic diversity targets when recovering threatened species through rebuilding metapopulations - Dr Jennifer Pierson
2:20 PM - 2:25 PM Large-scale, multi-species plant translocation in the Jarrah Forest - Dr Lucy Commander
2:25 PM - 2:30 PM Mitigation translocations: the ugly stepsisters of the translocation world - Dr Jen Germano
2:35 PM - 2:40 PM
Quick refresh break (2)
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Assisted colonisation to address the threat of climate change
Session Chair: Bryony Palmer
2:40 PM - 2:50 PM Translocation in the era of climate change: strategies against acute threats from global warming to reintroduced migratory Northern Bald Ibises - Dr Johannes Fritz
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM Assessing a trail translocation of the endangered pygmy bluetonue lizard: does source location affect outcomes? - Professor Mike Gardner
3:00 PM - 3:10 PM 15 years in: lessons being learned from assisted colonisation trials of Australia's most threatened turtle - Professor Nicola Mitchell
3:10 PM - 3:20 PM Evaluating the success of assisted colonisation trials to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands for an Extinct in the Wild skink - Kristen Schubert
3:20 PM - 3:30 PM A combination approach: Maximum entropy modelling and fieldwork to assess the suitability of historical habitat for the endangered pygmy bluetongue - Kimberley Michael
3:30 PM - 3:40 PM Assisted Colonisation of the Critically Endangered Western Swamp Turtle: Insights from Non-Invasive eDNA Approaches - Bethany Nordstrom
3:40 PM - 3:50 PM Is it time for assisted colonisation of the critically endangered Leadbeater’s possum given risks posed by bushfire and climate change? - Darcy Watchorn
3:50 PM - 4:25 PM Afternoon tea (Monday) - including Speakers Corner
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - The effect of translocation on ecological communities
Session Chair: Bryony Palmer
4:25 PM - 4:35 PM Conservation translocations of bioturbators for ecosystem change - Dr Leonie Valentine
4:35 PM - 4:45 PM Understanding the trophic interactions and impacts of reintroduced mammals using scatDNA - Dr Linda Neaves
4:45 PM - 4:55 PM A review of mammalian carnivore translocations – prey impacts, ecosystem effects, and a case study in arid Australia - Ben Stepkovitch
4:55 PM - 5:05 PM Optimizing responsible translocations of displaced organisms - Julie Sherman
5:10 PM - 6:00 PM ICTC 2023 Poster Session (Monday)

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Main Conference Program - Day 2
8:30 AM - 8:35 AM
Day Two Welcome
8:35 AM - 9:05 AM Plenary - An assisted colonisation of an endangered carnivore - 10+ years of lessons from the Tasmanian devil on Maria Island - Dr Samantha Fox
Session Chair: Dr Dorian Moro
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - The role of ex-situ conservation in translocations
Session Chair: Dr Dorian Moro
9:05 AM - 9:15 AM Challenges and opportunities to save the most threatened group of species on Earth: those that are Extinct in the Wild - Dr Axel Moehrenschlager
9:15 AM - 9:25 AM Living Fast on the Texas Prairies: Overcoming stochasticity to establish populations of an endangered prairie grouse - Paul Senner
9:25 AM - 9:35 AM Can zoo-born mammals contribute to conservation translocation programmes? - Tony King
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS (SPEED TALKS) - Case Studies (1)
Session Chair: Dr Dorian Moro
9:40 AM - 9:45 AM Understanding the effectiveness of mitigation translocation for Columbia Spotted Frogs (Rana luteiventris) in British Columbia, Canada - Megan Winand
9:45 AM - 9:50 AM Saving Wildcats: restoring wildcats in Scotland through captive breeding and threat mitigation - Dr Keri Langridge
9:50 AM - 9:55 AM Translocation efforts for the critically endangered Northern Corroboree Frog (Pseudophryne pengilleyi) in south-eastern Australia - Michael McFadden
9:55 AM - 10:00 AM Preparing for translocation: understanding hatching success in the Guam kingfisher (Todiramphus cinnamominus), an extinct-in-the-wild bird - Matthew Mitchell
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning tea (Tuesday) - including Speakers Corner
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Diverse challenges in the field of conservation translocations (1)
Session Chair: Dr Saul Cowen
10:30 AM - 10:40 AM Recovery of two threatened species through conservation translocation in Manas national park, a World heritage Site in India - Dr Rathin Barman
10:40 AM - 10:50 AM Decision analyses combined with integrated population models overcome inaction and instigate values-based conservation translocations - Dr Johannes Fischer
10:50 AM - 11:00 AM Rescue and Return: saving a semi-wild platypus population during the 2019 drought - Dr Tahneal Hawke
11:00 AM - 11:10 AM Successful translocation of a long-distant migrating passerine - new impetus for the conservation of the globally threatened Aquatic Warbler - Zymantas Morkvenas
11:10 AM - 11:20 AM A framework for emergency conservation interventions based on the emergency ex-situ extraction of a threatened bird during Black Summer - Dr Katherine Selwood
11:20 AM - 11:30 AM New guidelines on conservation translocation of wild orangutans: Precautionary decision-making to protect wild populations and fragmented natural habitats - Julie Sherman
11:30 AM - 11:40 AM Creating a future for Kyloring: a wild-to-wild translocation of a critically endangered parrot - Abby Thomas
11:40 AM - 11:45 AM
Quick refresh break (4)
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Open Forum (1)
Session Chair: Dr Saul Cowen
11:45 AM - 11:55 AM What does Rewilding have to do with Reintroductions - or vice versa - Professor Phil Seddon
11:55 AM - 12:05 PM Traditional Owners as partners in reintroduction projects: translocating golden bandicoots from Western Australia to New South Wales, Australia - Dr Dorian Moro
12:05 PM - 12:15 PM Finding a way forward for complex conservation translocations - Scotland’s Beaver Strategy 2022-2045 - Dr Martin Gaywood
12:15 PM - 1:35 PM Lunch (Tuesday) - including Speakers Corner
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Workshop: Introduction to Ecoacoustics and Wildlife Acoustics Tools: Song Meter Micro, Mini & SM4 and Kaleidoscope analysis software (Tuesday 14 November)
Faunatech Presentation. Free for conference delegates
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Innovative approaches and solutions (1)
Session Chair: Dr Amy Coetsee
1:35 PM - 1:45 PM Establishing a new wild population of critically endangered Helmeted Honeyeaters - Dr Nick Bradsworth
1:45 PM - 1:55 PM The forgotten masses: a call for focused innovation efforts to improve invertebrate translocation outcomes - Dr Helen Taylor
1:55 PM - 2:05 PM Warru Ngurakutu Kulpanyi: Bringing Back Warru (black-footed rock-wallaby) to the Everard Ranges, South Australia - Adrian Dodd and Oska Mills
2:05 PM - 2:15 PM Adaptive Management Approach To Save A Critically Endangered Bird: The Case of the Regent Honeyeater (Anthochaera Phrygia) Breeding Program - Dr Monique Van Sluys
2:15 PM - 2:25 PM Observing a changing world from space: Remote sensing for the European Northern Bald Ibis reintroduction project - Helena Wehner
2:25 PM - 2:30 PM
Quick refresh break (5)
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Open Forum (2)
Session Chair: Dr Amy Coetsee
2:30 PM - 2:40 PM Habitat suitability and reintroduction site selection for the northern leopard frog (Lithobates pipiens) in British Columbia, Canada - Lea Randall
2:40 PM - 2:50 PM The role of animal translocations in the restoration of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique - Miguel Lajas
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM What can a historian say about a global history of reintroductions? - Dr Monica Vasile
3:10 PM - 3:40 PM Afternoon tea (Tuesday) - including Speakers Corner
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS (SPEED TALKS) - Case Studies (2)
Session Chair: Dr Leah Kemp
3:40 PM - 3:45 PM The usefulness of pre-translocation habitat suitability analyses for reintroductions of critical weight range mammals - Georgina Anderson
3:45 PM - 3:50 PM Forget the Shovel: Using 3D printed traps for the non-destructive extraction of burrowing spiders - Cameron Blackburn
3:50 PM - 3:55 PM Importance of adaptive management during mallee emu-wren reintroduction - Dr Rebecca Boulton
3:55 PM - 4:00 PM A web-based app to simulate the conservation translocation of beavers - Dr Martin Gaywood
4:00 PM - 4:05 PM Genetic management of the Asian houbara translocation program and its benefits for the preservation of the species migratory routes - Dr Loic Lesobre
4:05 PM - 4:10 PM The Mulligans Flat-Goorooyarroo Woodland Experiment: using multi-species reintroductions to enable whole-ecosystem restoration - Cassandra Holt
4:10 PM - 4:20 PM
Quick refresh break (6)
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS (SPEED TALKS) - Translocations into predator free and predator controlled environments (1)
Session Chair: Dr Leah Kemp
4:20 PM - 4:25 PM Reproductive skews and admixture in first generation of reintroduced greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis) populations - Brianna Coulter
4:25 PM - 4:30 PM Translocation from insurance populations allows post-fire restoration of Gilbert’s potoroo at the site of the last natural population - Dr James Friend
4:30 PM - 4:35 PM Maximising reintroduction success while minimising impacts to source populations: a strategy of small release group and soft-release - Dr Genevieve Hayes
4:35 PM - 4:40 PM Intensive monitoring essential for identifying factors influencing reintroduction success: a case study using the red-tailed phascogale - Tessa Manning
4:40 PM - 4:45 PM Maximising the potential of a reintroduction through the inclusion of genetic data - Brittany Brockett
4:45 PM - 4:50 PM Last chance to save a unique population: Supplementing the NSW Endangered Coastal Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) - Lia Hooper
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM ICTC 2023 Poster Session (Tuesday)
Main Conference Program - Day 2
8:30 AM - 8:35 AM
Day Two Welcome
8:35 AM - 9:05 AM Plenary - An assisted colonisation of an endangered carnivore - 10+ years of lessons from the Tasmanian devil on Maria Island - Dr Samantha Fox
Session Chair: Dr Dorian Moro
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - The role of ex-situ conservation in translocations
Session Chair: Dr Dorian Moro
9:05 AM - 9:15 AM Challenges and opportunities to save the most threatened group of species on Earth: those that are Extinct in the Wild - Dr Axel Moehrenschlager
9:15 AM - 9:25 AM Living Fast on the Texas Prairies: Overcoming stochasticity to establish populations of an endangered prairie grouse - Paul Senner
9:25 AM - 9:35 AM Can zoo-born mammals contribute to conservation translocation programmes? - Tony King
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS (SPEED TALKS) - Case Studies (1)
Session Chair: Dr Dorian Moro
9:40 AM - 9:45 AM Understanding the effectiveness of mitigation translocation for Columbia Spotted Frogs (Rana luteiventris) in British Columbia, Canada - Megan Winand
9:45 AM - 9:50 AM Saving Wildcats: restoring wildcats in Scotland through captive breeding and threat mitigation - Dr Keri Langridge
9:50 AM - 9:55 AM Translocation efforts for the critically endangered Northern Corroboree Frog (Pseudophryne pengilleyi) in south-eastern Australia - Michael McFadden
9:55 AM - 10:00 AM Preparing for translocation: understanding hatching success in the Guam kingfisher (Todiramphus cinnamominus), an extinct-in-the-wild bird - Matthew Mitchell
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning tea (Tuesday) - including Speakers Corner
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Diverse challenges in the field of conservation translocations (1)
Session Chair: Dr Saul Cowen
10:30 AM - 10:40 AM Recovery of two threatened species through conservation translocation in Manas national park, a World heritage Site in India - Dr Rathin Barman
10:40 AM - 10:50 AM Decision analyses combined with integrated population models overcome inaction and instigate values-based conservation translocations - Dr Johannes Fischer
10:50 AM - 11:00 AM Rescue and Return: saving a semi-wild platypus population during the 2019 drought - Dr Tahneal Hawke
11:00 AM - 11:10 AM Successful translocation of a long-distant migrating passerine - new impetus for the conservation of the globally threatened Aquatic Warbler - Zymantas Morkvenas
11:10 AM - 11:20 AM A framework for emergency conservation interventions based on the emergency ex-situ extraction of a threatened bird during Black Summer - Dr Katherine Selwood
11:20 AM - 11:30 AM New guidelines on conservation translocation of wild orangutans: Precautionary decision-making to protect wild populations and fragmented natural habitats - Julie Sherman
11:30 AM - 11:40 AM Creating a future for Kyloring: a wild-to-wild translocation of a critically endangered parrot - Abby Thomas
11:40 AM - 11:45 AM
Quick refresh break (4)
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Open Forum (1)
Session Chair: Dr Saul Cowen
11:45 AM - 11:55 AM What does Rewilding have to do with Reintroductions - or vice versa - Professor Phil Seddon
11:55 AM - 12:05 PM Traditional Owners as partners in reintroduction projects: translocating golden bandicoots from Western Australia to New South Wales, Australia - Dr Dorian Moro
12:05 PM - 12:15 PM Finding a way forward for complex conservation translocations - Scotland’s Beaver Strategy 2022-2045 - Dr Martin Gaywood
12:15 PM - 1:35 PM Lunch (Tuesday) - including Speakers Corner
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Workshop: Introduction to Ecoacoustics and Wildlife Acoustics Tools: Song Meter Micro, Mini & SM4 and Kaleidoscope analysis software (Tuesday 14 November)
Faunatech Presentation. Free for conference delegates
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Innovative approaches and solutions (1)
Session Chair: Dr Amy Coetsee
1:35 PM - 1:45 PM Establishing a new wild population of critically endangered Helmeted Honeyeaters - Dr Nick Bradsworth
1:45 PM - 1:55 PM The forgotten masses: a call for focused innovation efforts to improve invertebrate translocation outcomes - Dr Helen Taylor
1:55 PM - 2:05 PM Warru Ngurakutu Kulpanyi: Bringing Back Warru (black-footed rock-wallaby) to the Everard Ranges, South Australia - Adrian Dodd and Oska Mills
2:05 PM - 2:15 PM Adaptive Management Approach To Save A Critically Endangered Bird: The Case of the Regent Honeyeater (Anthochaera Phrygia) Breeding Program - Dr Monique Van Sluys
2:15 PM - 2:25 PM Observing a changing world from space: Remote sensing for the European Northern Bald Ibis reintroduction project - Helena Wehner
2:25 PM - 2:30 PM
Quick refresh break (5)
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Open Forum (2)
Session Chair: Dr Amy Coetsee
2:30 PM - 2:40 PM Habitat suitability and reintroduction site selection for the northern leopard frog (Lithobates pipiens) in British Columbia, Canada - Lea Randall
2:40 PM - 2:50 PM The role of animal translocations in the restoration of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique - Miguel Lajas
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM What can a historian say about a global history of reintroductions? - Dr Monica Vasile
3:10 PM - 3:40 PM Afternoon tea (Tuesday) - including Speakers Corner
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS (SPEED TALKS) - Case Studies (2)
Session Chair: Dr Leah Kemp
3:40 PM - 3:45 PM The usefulness of pre-translocation habitat suitability analyses for reintroductions of critical weight range mammals - Georgina Anderson
3:45 PM - 3:50 PM Forget the Shovel: Using 3D printed traps for the non-destructive extraction of burrowing spiders - Cameron Blackburn
3:50 PM - 3:55 PM Importance of adaptive management during mallee emu-wren reintroduction - Dr Rebecca Boulton
3:55 PM - 4:00 PM A web-based app to simulate the conservation translocation of beavers - Dr Martin Gaywood
4:00 PM - 4:05 PM Genetic management of the Asian houbara translocation program and its benefits for the preservation of the species migratory routes - Dr Loic Lesobre
4:05 PM - 4:10 PM The Mulligans Flat-Goorooyarroo Woodland Experiment: using multi-species reintroductions to enable whole-ecosystem restoration - Cassandra Holt
4:10 PM - 4:20 PM
Quick refresh break (6)
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS (SPEED TALKS) - Translocations into predator free and predator controlled environments (1)
Session Chair: Dr Leah Kemp
4:20 PM - 4:25 PM Reproductive skews and admixture in first generation of reintroduced greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis) populations - Brianna Coulter
4:25 PM - 4:30 PM Translocation from insurance populations allows post-fire restoration of Gilbert’s potoroo at the site of the last natural population - Dr James Friend
4:30 PM - 4:35 PM Maximising reintroduction success while minimising impacts to source populations: a strategy of small release group and soft-release - Dr Genevieve Hayes
4:35 PM - 4:40 PM Intensive monitoring essential for identifying factors influencing reintroduction success: a case study using the red-tailed phascogale - Tessa Manning
4:40 PM - 4:45 PM Maximising the potential of a reintroduction through the inclusion of genetic data - Brittany Brockett
4:45 PM - 4:50 PM Last chance to save a unique population: Supplementing the NSW Endangered Coastal Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) - Lia Hooper
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM ICTC 2023 Poster Session (Tuesday)

Main Conference Program - Day 2
8:30 AM - 8:35 AM
Day Two Welcome
8:35 AM - 9:05 AM Plenary - An assisted colonisation of an endangered carnivore - 10+ years of lessons from the Tasmanian devil on Maria Island - Dr Samantha Fox
Session Chair: Dr Dorian Moro
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - The role of ex-situ conservation in translocations
Session Chair: Dr Dorian Moro
9:05 AM - 9:15 AM Challenges and opportunities to save the most threatened group of species on Earth: those that are Extinct in the Wild - Dr Axel Moehrenschlager
9:15 AM - 9:25 AM Living Fast on the Texas Prairies: Overcoming stochasticity to establish populations of an endangered prairie grouse - Paul Senner
9:25 AM - 9:35 AM Can zoo-born mammals contribute to conservation translocation programmes? - Tony King
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS (SPEED TALKS) - Case Studies (1)
Session Chair: Dr Dorian Moro
9:40 AM - 9:45 AM Understanding the effectiveness of mitigation translocation for Columbia Spotted Frogs (Rana luteiventris) in British Columbia, Canada - Megan Winand
9:45 AM - 9:50 AM Saving Wildcats: restoring wildcats in Scotland through captive breeding and threat mitigation - Dr Keri Langridge
9:50 AM - 9:55 AM Translocation efforts for the critically endangered Northern Corroboree Frog (Pseudophryne pengilleyi) in south-eastern Australia - Michael McFadden
9:55 AM - 10:00 AM Preparing for translocation: understanding hatching success in the Guam kingfisher (Todiramphus cinnamominus), an extinct-in-the-wild bird - Matthew Mitchell
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning tea (Tuesday) - including Speakers Corner
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Diverse challenges in the field of conservation translocations (1)
Session Chair: Dr Saul Cowen
10:30 AM - 10:40 AM Recovery of two threatened species through conservation translocation in Manas national park, a World heritage Site in India - Dr Rathin Barman
10:40 AM - 10:50 AM Decision analyses combined with integrated population models overcome inaction and instigate values-based conservation translocations - Dr Johannes Fischer
10:50 AM - 11:00 AM Rescue and Return: saving a semi-wild platypus population during the 2019 drought - Dr Tahneal Hawke
11:00 AM - 11:10 AM Successful translocation of a long-distant migrating passerine - new impetus for the conservation of the globally threatened Aquatic Warbler - Zymantas Morkvenas
11:10 AM - 11:20 AM A framework for emergency conservation interventions based on the emergency ex-situ extraction of a threatened bird during Black Summer - Dr Katherine Selwood
11:20 AM - 11:30 AM New guidelines on conservation translocation of wild orangutans: Precautionary decision-making to protect wild populations and fragmented natural habitats - Julie Sherman
11:30 AM - 11:40 AM Creating a future for Kyloring: a wild-to-wild translocation of a critically endangered parrot - Abby Thomas
11:40 AM - 11:45 AM
Quick refresh break (4)
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Open Forum (1)
Session Chair: Dr Saul Cowen
11:45 AM - 11:55 AM What does Rewilding have to do with Reintroductions - or vice versa - Professor Phil Seddon
11:55 AM - 12:05 PM Traditional Owners as partners in reintroduction projects: translocating golden bandicoots from Western Australia to New South Wales, Australia - Dr Dorian Moro
12:05 PM - 12:15 PM Finding a way forward for complex conservation translocations - Scotland’s Beaver Strategy 2022-2045 - Dr Martin Gaywood
12:15 PM - 1:35 PM Lunch (Tuesday) - including Speakers Corner
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Workshop: Introduction to Ecoacoustics and Wildlife Acoustics Tools: Song Meter Micro, Mini & SM4 and Kaleidoscope analysis software (Tuesday 14 November)
Faunatech Presentation. Free for conference delegates
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Innovative approaches and solutions (1)
Session Chair: Dr Amy Coetsee
1:35 PM - 1:45 PM Establishing a new wild population of critically endangered Helmeted Honeyeaters - Dr Nick Bradsworth
1:45 PM - 1:55 PM The forgotten masses: a call for focused innovation efforts to improve invertebrate translocation outcomes - Dr Helen Taylor
1:55 PM - 2:05 PM Warru Ngurakutu Kulpanyi: Bringing Back Warru (black-footed rock-wallaby) to the Everard Ranges, South Australia - Adrian Dodd and Oska Mills
2:05 PM - 2:15 PM Adaptive Management Approach To Save A Critically Endangered Bird: The Case of the Regent Honeyeater (Anthochaera Phrygia) Breeding Program - Dr Monique Van Sluys
2:15 PM - 2:25 PM Observing a changing world from space: Remote sensing for the European Northern Bald Ibis reintroduction project - Helena Wehner
2:25 PM - 2:30 PM
Quick refresh break (5)
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Open Forum (2)
Session Chair: Dr Amy Coetsee
2:30 PM - 2:40 PM Habitat suitability and reintroduction site selection for the northern leopard frog (Lithobates pipiens) in British Columbia, Canada - Lea Randall
2:40 PM - 2:50 PM The role of animal translocations in the restoration of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique - Miguel Lajas
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM What can a historian say about a global history of reintroductions? - Dr Monica Vasile
3:10 PM - 3:40 PM Afternoon tea (Tuesday) - including Speakers Corner
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS (SPEED TALKS) - Case Studies (2)
Session Chair: Dr Leah Kemp
3:40 PM - 3:45 PM The usefulness of pre-translocation habitat suitability analyses for reintroductions of critical weight range mammals - Georgina Anderson
3:45 PM - 3:50 PM Forget the Shovel: Using 3D printed traps for the non-destructive extraction of burrowing spiders - Cameron Blackburn
3:50 PM - 3:55 PM Importance of adaptive management during mallee emu-wren reintroduction - Dr Rebecca Boulton
3:55 PM - 4:00 PM A web-based app to simulate the conservation translocation of beavers - Dr Martin Gaywood
4:00 PM - 4:05 PM Genetic management of the Asian houbara translocation program and its benefits for the preservation of the species migratory routes - Dr Loic Lesobre
4:05 PM - 4:10 PM The Mulligans Flat-Goorooyarroo Woodland Experiment: using multi-species reintroductions to enable whole-ecosystem restoration - Cassandra Holt
4:10 PM - 4:20 PM
Quick refresh break (6)
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS (SPEED TALKS) - Translocations into predator free and predator controlled environments (1)
Session Chair: Dr Leah Kemp
4:20 PM - 4:25 PM Reproductive skews and admixture in first generation of reintroduced greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis) populations - Brianna Coulter
4:25 PM - 4:30 PM Translocation from insurance populations allows post-fire restoration of Gilbert’s potoroo at the site of the last natural population - Dr James Friend
4:30 PM - 4:35 PM Maximising reintroduction success while minimising impacts to source populations: a strategy of small release group and soft-release - Dr Genevieve Hayes
4:35 PM - 4:40 PM Intensive monitoring essential for identifying factors influencing reintroduction success: a case study using the red-tailed phascogale - Tessa Manning
4:40 PM - 4:45 PM Maximising the potential of a reintroduction through the inclusion of genetic data - Brittany Brockett
4:45 PM - 4:50 PM Last chance to save a unique population: Supplementing the NSW Endangered Coastal Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) - Lia Hooper
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM ICTC 2023 Poster Session (Tuesday)

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Main Conference Program - Day 3
8:30 AM - 8:35 AM
Day Three Welcome
8:35 AM - 9:05 AM Plenary - An overview of animal translocations in Brazil: motivations, advances and how to improve - Professor Carlos Ruiz-Miranda
Session Chair: Associate Professor Katherine Moseby
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Translocations into predator free and predator controlled environments (2)
Session Chair: Dr Leah Kemp
9:05 AM - 9:15 AM The Evolution of Australian Wildlife Conservancy’s Translocation Program and Improved Wildlife Conservation Outcomes - Dr Jennifer Anson
9:15 AM - 9:25 AM Translocation vs natural recolonisation; A comparison of two conservation strategies for the crest-tailed mulgara - Dympna Cullen
9:25 AM - 9:35 AM Fitness consequences of weakened anti-predator responses: experimental release of havened and non-havened woylies (Bettongia penicillata ogilbyi) to inform conservation management - Natasha Harrison
9:35 AM - 9:45 AM Quantifying the impacts of introduced predator incursions on reintroduced bird populations in a predator-fenced wildlife sanctuary - Dr Kevin Parker
9:45 AM - 9:55 AM Post-release monitoring of dispersal to improve reintroduction outcomes - Dr Zoe Stone
9:55 AM - 10:05 AM Climate impacts and adaptive strategies for translocated populations: an arid perspective - Dr Katherine Tuft
10:05 AM - 10:15 AM Implementing a range of release protocols to minimise risks of translocation failure - Dr Rebecca West
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM Morning tea (Wednesday) - including Speakers Corner
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Health matters: veterinary and horticultural science in translocations
Session Chair: Dr Rebecca Vaughan-Higgins
10:45 AM - 10:55 AM Recent Dramatic Declines Sound Alarm and Demand Urgent Action for Hawaiian Honeycreepers - Dr Lisa Crampton
10:55 AM - 11:05 AM Why should we give a rats? Opportunities, challenges and benefits in the application of an Australian rodent disease risk analysis - Fiona Knox
11:05 AM - 11:15 AM Factors associated with rehabilitation success in wild black cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus spp.) released in south-west Western Australia - Dr Anna Le Souef
11:15 AM - 11:25 AM Translocating platypuses: challenges associated with performing a disease risk analysis for the world’s most evolutionary distinct species - Dr Jess Whinfield
11:25 AM - 11:35 AM One Health in translocation actions: epidemiology at the hybridised European wildcat – domestic cat interface - Beatriz Alves
11:35 AM - 11:40 AM
Quick refresh break (9)
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Innovative approaches and solutions (2)
Session Chair: Dr Dorian Moro
11:40 AM - 11:50 AM Somewhere new that favours you - Assisted Colonisation of the Northern Corroboree Frog - Dr Sarah May
11:50 AM - 12:00 PM Nation-wide identification and conservation of potential refugee species - Kiarrah Smith
12:00 PM - 12:10 PM Effects of Heterospecific Competitor Experience on Translocation Success of the Endangered Pacific Pocket Mouse - Dr Debra Shier
12:10 PM - 12:20 PM Conservation Translocation to Circumvent High Hatch-Year Mortality and Increase Site Fidelity: Burrowing Owl Head-Starting in Alberta, Canada - Graham Dixon-MacCallum
12:20 PM - 12:30 PM Beyond fencing in the Wild Desert: innovation and challenges in establishing in-situ predator awareness training for reintroduced mammals - Dr Reece Pedler
12:30 PM - 12:40 PM The future is here - an easy-to-use toolkit for integrating genetics into conservation management - Professor Carolyn Hogg
12:40 PM - 12:50 PM Limitations to the Successful Reintroduction and Recovery of the Northern Aplomado Falcon in the U.S. - David Bontrager
12:50 PM - 1:25 PM Lunch (Wednesday) - including Speakers Corner
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Innovative approaches and solutions (3)
Session Chair: Dr Dorian Moro
1:25 PM - 1:35 PM Rewilding and Indigenous conservation: a looming conflict or a new opportunity? - Dr Tristan Derham
1:35 PM - 1:45 PM The utility of coded VHF for reintroductions - increasing data densities and welfare outcomes for monitored mammal populations - Chloe Frick
1:45 PM - 1:55 PM Illuminating the social dimensions of genetic principles in conservation translocation decision-making - Dr Aisling Rayne
1:55 PM - 2:05 PM Reintroduction strategies for the conservation of the Southern Corroboree Frog; the use of fences to exclude pathogens - Dr David Hunter
2:05 PM - 2:15 PM WildTrack: A long range (LoRa) radio and Internet of Things (IoT) system for passive tracking of translocated wildlife - Dr Kylie Robert
2:15 PM - 2:25 PM The translocation continuum: a framework for context-specific decision-making - Belinda Wilson
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS (SPEED TALKS) - Innovative approaches and solutions
Session Chair: Dr JP Emery
2:25 PM - 2:30 PM Prioritising populations as sources for genetic mixing: guidelines from a simulation framework - Dr Sean Buckley
2:30 PM - 2:35 PM Tracking Success: Using integrated monitoring techniques to assess post-release survival and dispersal in a reintroduction program at Wilsons Promontory, Australia - Beau Fahnle
2:35 PM - 2:40 PM Using molecular analysis of scats to inform mammal conservation - Dr Anna Hopkins
2:40 PM - 2:45 PM Yes we can! Reinforcement of a diseased population of Tasmanian devils - Dr Elspeth McLennan
2:45 PM - 2:50 PM Finnish wild forest reindeer returned to its historical range - two new herds have been created in a reintroduction project - Dr Milla Niemi
2:50 PM - 2:55 PM Estimating population density of ‘trap-shy’ banded hare-wallabies (Lagostrophus fasciatus) using faecal DNA analysis - Dr Kym Ottewell
2:55 PM - 3:00 PM Different good or different bad? Managing the risks of hybridisation and the benefits of genetic diversity within conservation translocations - Dr Helen Senn
3:00 PM - 3:05 PM Characterising immune gene diversity to improve disease outcomes for one of the world’s rarest shorebirds - Professor Tammy Steeves
3:05 PM - 3:10 PM From Scats to Stats: The Development and Applications of Scat Genetic Monitoring - Dr Rujiporn Sun
3:10 PM - 3:15 PM Mitigation translocation of the Western Spiny-tailed Skink (Egernia stokesii badia) in a conservation context - Dr Holly Bradley
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM Afternoon tea (Wednesday) - including Speakers Corner
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Panel Discussion
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM ICTC 2023 Wrap up and closing remarks
Main Conference Program - Day 3
8:30 AM - 8:35 AM
Day Three Welcome
8:35 AM - 9:05 AM Plenary - An overview of animal translocations in Brazil: motivations, advances and how to improve - Professor Carlos Ruiz-Miranda
Session Chair: Associate Professor Katherine Moseby
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Translocations into predator free and predator controlled environments (2)
Session Chair: Dr Leah Kemp
9:05 AM - 9:15 AM The Evolution of Australian Wildlife Conservancy’s Translocation Program and Improved Wildlife Conservation Outcomes - Dr Jennifer Anson
9:15 AM - 9:25 AM Translocation vs natural recolonisation; A comparison of two conservation strategies for the crest-tailed mulgara - Dympna Cullen
9:25 AM - 9:35 AM Fitness consequences of weakened anti-predator responses: experimental release of havened and non-havened woylies (Bettongia penicillata ogilbyi) to inform conservation management - Natasha Harrison
9:35 AM - 9:45 AM Quantifying the impacts of introduced predator incursions on reintroduced bird populations in a predator-fenced wildlife sanctuary - Dr Kevin Parker
9:45 AM - 9:55 AM Post-release monitoring of dispersal to improve reintroduction outcomes - Dr Zoe Stone
9:55 AM - 10:05 AM Climate impacts and adaptive strategies for translocated populations: an arid perspective - Dr Katherine Tuft
10:05 AM - 10:15 AM Implementing a range of release protocols to minimise risks of translocation failure - Dr Rebecca West
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM Morning tea (Wednesday) - including Speakers Corner
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Health matters: veterinary and horticultural science in translocations
Session Chair: Dr Rebecca Vaughan-Higgins
10:45 AM - 10:55 AM Recent Dramatic Declines Sound Alarm and Demand Urgent Action for Hawaiian Honeycreepers - Dr Lisa Crampton
10:55 AM - 11:05 AM Why should we give a rats? Opportunities, challenges and benefits in the application of an Australian rodent disease risk analysis - Fiona Knox
11:05 AM - 11:15 AM Factors associated with rehabilitation success in wild black cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus spp.) released in south-west Western Australia - Dr Anna Le Souef
11:15 AM - 11:25 AM Translocating platypuses: challenges associated with performing a disease risk analysis for the world’s most evolutionary distinct species - Dr Jess Whinfield
11:25 AM - 11:35 AM One Health in translocation actions: epidemiology at the hybridised European wildcat – domestic cat interface - Beatriz Alves
11:35 AM - 11:40 AM
Quick refresh break (9)
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Innovative approaches and solutions (2)
Session Chair: Dr Dorian Moro
11:40 AM - 11:50 AM Somewhere new that favours you - Assisted Colonisation of the Northern Corroboree Frog - Dr Sarah May
11:50 AM - 12:00 PM Nation-wide identification and conservation of potential refugee species - Kiarrah Smith
12:00 PM - 12:10 PM Effects of Heterospecific Competitor Experience on Translocation Success of the Endangered Pacific Pocket Mouse - Dr Debra Shier
12:10 PM - 12:20 PM Conservation Translocation to Circumvent High Hatch-Year Mortality and Increase Site Fidelity: Burrowing Owl Head-Starting in Alberta, Canada - Graham Dixon-MacCallum
12:20 PM - 12:30 PM Beyond fencing in the Wild Desert: innovation and challenges in establishing in-situ predator awareness training for reintroduced mammals - Dr Reece Pedler
12:30 PM - 12:40 PM The future is here - an easy-to-use toolkit for integrating genetics into conservation management - Professor Carolyn Hogg
12:40 PM - 12:50 PM Limitations to the Successful Reintroduction and Recovery of the Northern Aplomado Falcon in the U.S. - David Bontrager
12:50 PM - 1:25 PM Lunch (Wednesday) - including Speakers Corner
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Innovative approaches and solutions (3)
Session Chair: Dr Dorian Moro
1:25 PM - 1:35 PM Rewilding and Indigenous conservation: a looming conflict or a new opportunity? - Dr Tristan Derham
1:35 PM - 1:45 PM The utility of coded VHF for reintroductions - increasing data densities and welfare outcomes for monitored mammal populations - Chloe Frick
1:45 PM - 1:55 PM Illuminating the social dimensions of genetic principles in conservation translocation decision-making - Dr Aisling Rayne
1:55 PM - 2:05 PM Reintroduction strategies for the conservation of the Southern Corroboree Frog; the use of fences to exclude pathogens - Dr David Hunter
2:05 PM - 2:15 PM WildTrack: A long range (LoRa) radio and Internet of Things (IoT) system for passive tracking of translocated wildlife - Dr Kylie Robert
2:15 PM - 2:25 PM The translocation continuum: a framework for context-specific decision-making - Belinda Wilson
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS (SPEED TALKS) - Innovative approaches and solutions
Session Chair: Dr JP Emery
2:25 PM - 2:30 PM Prioritising populations as sources for genetic mixing: guidelines from a simulation framework - Dr Sean Buckley
2:30 PM - 2:35 PM Tracking Success: Using integrated monitoring techniques to assess post-release survival and dispersal in a reintroduction program at Wilsons Promontory, Australia - Beau Fahnle
2:35 PM - 2:40 PM Using molecular analysis of scats to inform mammal conservation - Dr Anna Hopkins
2:40 PM - 2:45 PM Yes we can! Reinforcement of a diseased population of Tasmanian devils - Dr Elspeth McLennan
2:45 PM - 2:50 PM Finnish wild forest reindeer returned to its historical range - two new herds have been created in a reintroduction project - Dr Milla Niemi
2:50 PM - 2:55 PM Estimating population density of ‘trap-shy’ banded hare-wallabies (Lagostrophus fasciatus) using faecal DNA analysis - Dr Kym Ottewell
2:55 PM - 3:00 PM Different good or different bad? Managing the risks of hybridisation and the benefits of genetic diversity within conservation translocations - Dr Helen Senn
3:00 PM - 3:05 PM Characterising immune gene diversity to improve disease outcomes for one of the world’s rarest shorebirds - Professor Tammy Steeves
3:05 PM - 3:10 PM From Scats to Stats: The Development and Applications of Scat Genetic Monitoring - Dr Rujiporn Sun
3:10 PM - 3:15 PM Mitigation translocation of the Western Spiny-tailed Skink (Egernia stokesii badia) in a conservation context - Dr Holly Bradley
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM Afternoon tea (Wednesday) - including Speakers Corner
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Panel Discussion
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM ICTC 2023 Wrap up and closing remarks

Main Conference Program - Day 3
8:30 AM - 8:35 AM
Day Three Welcome
8:35 AM - 9:05 AM Plenary - An overview of animal translocations in Brazil: motivations, advances and how to improve - Professor Carlos Ruiz-Miranda
Session Chair: Associate Professor Katherine Moseby
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Translocations into predator free and predator controlled environments (2)
Session Chair: Dr Leah Kemp
9:05 AM - 9:15 AM The Evolution of Australian Wildlife Conservancy’s Translocation Program and Improved Wildlife Conservation Outcomes - Dr Jennifer Anson
9:15 AM - 9:25 AM Translocation vs natural recolonisation; A comparison of two conservation strategies for the crest-tailed mulgara - Dympna Cullen
9:25 AM - 9:35 AM Fitness consequences of weakened anti-predator responses: experimental release of havened and non-havened woylies (Bettongia penicillata ogilbyi) to inform conservation management - Natasha Harrison
9:35 AM - 9:45 AM Quantifying the impacts of introduced predator incursions on reintroduced bird populations in a predator-fenced wildlife sanctuary - Dr Kevin Parker
9:45 AM - 9:55 AM Post-release monitoring of dispersal to improve reintroduction outcomes - Dr Zoe Stone
9:55 AM - 10:05 AM Climate impacts and adaptive strategies for translocated populations: an arid perspective - Dr Katherine Tuft
10:05 AM - 10:15 AM Implementing a range of release protocols to minimise risks of translocation failure - Dr Rebecca West
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM Morning tea (Wednesday) - including Speakers Corner
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Health matters: veterinary and horticultural science in translocations
Session Chair: Dr Rebecca Vaughan-Higgins
10:45 AM - 10:55 AM Recent Dramatic Declines Sound Alarm and Demand Urgent Action for Hawaiian Honeycreepers - Dr Lisa Crampton
10:55 AM - 11:05 AM Why should we give a rats? Opportunities, challenges and benefits in the application of an Australian rodent disease risk analysis - Fiona Knox
11:05 AM - 11:15 AM Factors associated with rehabilitation success in wild black cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus spp.) released in south-west Western Australia - Dr Anna Le Souef
11:15 AM - 11:25 AM Translocating platypuses: challenges associated with performing a disease risk analysis for the world’s most evolutionary distinct species - Dr Jess Whinfield
11:25 AM - 11:35 AM One Health in translocation actions: epidemiology at the hybridised European wildcat – domestic cat interface - Beatriz Alves
11:35 AM - 11:40 AM
Quick refresh break (9)
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Innovative approaches and solutions (2)
Session Chair: Dr Dorian Moro
11:40 AM - 11:50 AM Somewhere new that favours you - Assisted Colonisation of the Northern Corroboree Frog - Dr Sarah May
11:50 AM - 12:00 PM Nation-wide identification and conservation of potential refugee species - Kiarrah Smith
12:00 PM - 12:10 PM Effects of Heterospecific Competitor Experience on Translocation Success of the Endangered Pacific Pocket Mouse - Dr Debra Shier
12:10 PM - 12:20 PM Conservation Translocation to Circumvent High Hatch-Year Mortality and Increase Site Fidelity: Burrowing Owl Head-Starting in Alberta, Canada - Graham Dixon-MacCallum
12:20 PM - 12:30 PM Beyond fencing in the Wild Desert: innovation and challenges in establishing in-situ predator awareness training for reintroduced mammals - Dr Reece Pedler
12:30 PM - 12:40 PM The future is here - an easy-to-use toolkit for integrating genetics into conservation management - Professor Carolyn Hogg
12:40 PM - 12:50 PM Limitations to the Successful Reintroduction and Recovery of the Northern Aplomado Falcon in the U.S. - David Bontrager
12:50 PM - 1:25 PM Lunch (Wednesday) - including Speakers Corner
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS - Innovative approaches and solutions (3)
Session Chair: Dr Dorian Moro
1:25 PM - 1:35 PM Rewilding and Indigenous conservation: a looming conflict or a new opportunity? - Dr Tristan Derham
1:35 PM - 1:45 PM The utility of coded VHF for reintroductions - increasing data densities and welfare outcomes for monitored mammal populations - Chloe Frick
1:45 PM - 1:55 PM Illuminating the social dimensions of genetic principles in conservation translocation decision-making - Dr Aisling Rayne
1:55 PM - 2:05 PM Reintroduction strategies for the conservation of the Southern Corroboree Frog; the use of fences to exclude pathogens - Dr David Hunter
2:05 PM - 2:15 PM WildTrack: A long range (LoRa) radio and Internet of Things (IoT) system for passive tracking of translocated wildlife - Dr Kylie Robert
2:15 PM - 2:25 PM The translocation continuum: a framework for context-specific decision-making - Belinda Wilson
CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS (SPEED TALKS) - Innovative approaches and solutions
Session Chair: Dr JP Emery
2:25 PM - 2:30 PM Prioritising populations as sources for genetic mixing: guidelines from a simulation framework - Dr Sean Buckley
2:30 PM - 2:35 PM Tracking Success: Using integrated monitoring techniques to assess post-release survival and dispersal in a reintroduction program at Wilsons Promontory, Australia - Beau Fahnle
2:35 PM - 2:40 PM Using molecular analysis of scats to inform mammal conservation - Dr Anna Hopkins
2:40 PM - 2:45 PM Yes we can! Reinforcement of a diseased population of Tasmanian devils - Dr Elspeth McLennan
2:45 PM - 2:50 PM Finnish wild forest reindeer returned to its historical range - two new herds have been created in a reintroduction project - Dr Milla Niemi
2:50 PM - 2:55 PM Estimating population density of ‘trap-shy’ banded hare-wallabies (Lagostrophus fasciatus) using faecal DNA analysis - Dr Kym Ottewell
2:55 PM - 3:00 PM Different good or different bad? Managing the risks of hybridisation and the benefits of genetic diversity within conservation translocations - Dr Helen Senn
3:00 PM - 3:05 PM Characterising immune gene diversity to improve disease outcomes for one of the world’s rarest shorebirds - Professor Tammy Steeves
3:05 PM - 3:10 PM From Scats to Stats: The Development and Applications of Scat Genetic Monitoring - Dr Rujiporn Sun
3:10 PM - 3:15 PM Mitigation translocation of the Western Spiny-tailed Skink (Egernia stokesii badia) in a conservation context - Dr Holly Bradley
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM Afternoon tea (Wednesday) - including Speakers Corner
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Panel Discussion
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM ICTC 2023 Wrap up and closing remarks

Thursday, November 16, 2023

Post Conference Workshop
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Post-Conference Workshop: Australian Translocation Practitioners Workshop (Thursday 16 November)
Facilitated by: Associate Professor Katherine Moseby, Dr Rebecca West, Dr Dorian Moro, Dr Simon Nally and Dr Katherine Tuft in the Admiralty Gulf Room at Fremantle Esplanade Hotel. Sponsored by: Wild Deserts - UNSW Sydney, Ecological Horizons, NSW Government Planning, Industry & Environment, Taronga Conservation Society Australia
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Post-Conference Workshop: Beyond the Guidelines: designing resilient, persistent plant translocations (Thursday 16 November)
Facilitated by: Leonie Monks and Chantelle Doyle Sponsored by: University of New South Wales and Department of Biodiversity Conservation and Attractions
Post Conference Workshop
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Post-Conference Workshop: Australian Translocation Practitioners Workshop (Thursday 16 November)
Facilitated by: Associate Professor Katherine Moseby, Dr Rebecca West, Dr Dorian Moro, Dr Simon Nally and Dr Katherine Tuft in the Admiralty Gulf Room at Fremantle Esplanade Hotel. Sponsored by: Wild Deserts - UNSW Sydney, Ecological Horizons, NSW Government Planning, Industry & Environment, Taronga Conservation Society Australia
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Post-Conference Workshop: Beyond the Guidelines: designing resilient, persistent plant translocations (Thursday 16 November)
Facilitated by: Leonie Monks and Chantelle Doyle Sponsored by: University of New South Wales and Department of Biodiversity Conservation and Attractions

Post Conference Workshop
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Post-Conference Workshop: Australian Translocation Practitioners Workshop (Thursday 16 November)
Facilitated by: Associate Professor Katherine Moseby, Dr Rebecca West, Dr Dorian Moro, Dr Simon Nally and Dr Katherine Tuft in the Admiralty Gulf Room at Fremantle Esplanade Hotel. Sponsored by: Wild Deserts - UNSW Sydney, Ecological Horizons, NSW Government Planning, Industry & Environment, Taronga Conservation Society Australia
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Post-Conference Workshop: Beyond the Guidelines: designing resilient, persistent plant translocations (Thursday 16 November)
Facilitated by: Leonie Monks and Chantelle Doyle Sponsored by: University of New South Wales and Department of Biodiversity Conservation and Attractions

Friday, November 17, 2023

Post Conference Workshop
8:45 AM - 4:30 PM Post-Conference Workshop: Disease Risk Analysis (Friday 17 November)
Facilitators: Dr Rebecca Vaughan-Higgins, Dr Fiona Knox, Dr Steve Unwin
Date: Friday, 17th November 2023.
Venue: Perth Zoo, 20 Labouchere RD South Perth WA 6151 (meet at Reception at 8.45am)
Cost: $65.00
Post Conference Workshop
8:45 AM - 4:30 PM Post-Conference Workshop: Disease Risk Analysis (Friday 17 November)
Facilitators: Dr Rebecca Vaughan-Higgins, Dr Fiona Knox, Dr Steve Unwin
Date: Friday, 17th November 2023.
Venue: Perth Zoo, 20 Labouchere RD South Perth WA 6151 (meet at Reception at 8.45am)
Cost: $65.00

Post Conference Workshop
8:45 AM - 4:30 PM Post-Conference Workshop: Disease Risk Analysis (Friday 17 November)
Facilitators: Dr Rebecca Vaughan-Higgins, Dr Fiona Knox, Dr Steve Unwin
Date: Friday, 17th November 2023.
Venue: Perth Zoo, 20 Labouchere RD South Perth WA 6151 (meet at Reception at 8.45am)
Cost: $65.00

Monday, November 20, 2023

Post Conference Workshop
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM Post-Conference Workshop: Introduction to estimation and modelling of ecological populations (20 - 24 November 2023)
Facilitated by Darryl Mackenzie and Joanne Potts
Venue: Torndirrup/Nambung Rooms at the Keiran McNamara Conservation Science Centre at the Department of Biodiversity Conservation and Attractions, 17 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, Western Australia
Post Conference Workshop
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM Post-Conference Workshop: Introduction to estimation and modelling of ecological populations (20 - 24 November 2023)
Facilitated by Darryl Mackenzie and Joanne Potts
Venue: Torndirrup/Nambung Rooms at the Keiran McNamara Conservation Science Centre at the Department of Biodiversity Conservation and Attractions, 17 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, Western Australia

Post Conference Workshop
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM Post-Conference Workshop: Introduction to estimation and modelling of ecological populations (20 - 24 November 2023)
Facilitated by Darryl Mackenzie and Joanne Potts
Venue: Torndirrup/Nambung Rooms at the Keiran McNamara Conservation Science Centre at the Department of Biodiversity Conservation and Attractions, 17 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, Western Australia

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