17th Biennial Conference

Kununurra WA 23-27 September 2012

The Biennial Conference  held in Kununurra, Western Australia, 23-27 September 2012 has concluded. This popular conference brings together managers, users and researchers of rangelands for discussion of 'hot topics' and current rangeland issues. 

The theme for the Conference was 'Celebrating diversity: people, places, purpose'. The program included: 

• strategic land and water use planning in northern Australia
• balancing pastoral, tourism, mining and conservation uses in the rangelands
• Indigenous land use and management
• latest techniques in grazing, biodiversity, fire and carbon management
• new science for rangeland management in a multiple use framework
• case studies in land restoration and land use change

The Conference Proceedings including abstracts of all papers received can be downloaded here.