Back from the Brink: Refining the Threatened Species Recovery Process

Abstract

Back from the Brink is based on material presented at a conference held by the Commonwealth Endangered Species Advisory Committee in Sydney in December, 1995. The purpose of the conference was to bring together practitioners with a wide range of "hands-on" recovery planning and implementation experience to review and refine the recovery process for threatened species and ecological communities. A foreword by Dr Andrew Burbidge (Endangered Species Advisory Committee) addresses the need for community involvement and government co-operation, and highlights the importance of the recovery process itself, if conservation of threatened species and ecological communities is to be successful.