Rufous Bettong are extinct in Victoria. Where can you see them roaming near Melbourne? Find out in this issue of Indigenotes which you can view here. Come to IFFA's excursion on August 16th to see them yourself!

Also in this issue:

• Nature Deficit Disorder - President's Letter from Brian Bainbridge
• Hawksbill Turtles on the Great Barrier Reef - from Robert Bender
  

Indigenotes 18-2 is out! 

Download here (pdf file 800Kb)

Details inside:

• IFFA's AGM is coming up on 23 September with a talk from Graeme Lorimer
• A Spring Field Trip to Bush's Paddock and Mount Cottrell on 21 October 

Lots of news too:

Anyone with stories, short articles or photos or line art which they would like to submit for publication in IFFA's newsletter Indigenotes should email them to the editor ASAP.

Finally here is the second edition of Indigenotes for 2006. Sorry about the delay.

Contents include:

Advances in Nature Conservation Vol 1 No 1, Jan-June 1992.  A downloadable version of this issue is available for download here as a scanned document (pdf format 8Mb).  If anyone wants to convert this document to text using OCR technology, please do, and submit it back to the Editor by email.

IFFA Miscellaneous Paper No 1 (1991): New taxa in Caladenia R.Br., Chiloglottis R.Br and Gastrodia R.Br (Orchidaceae) from south eastern Australia. By G.W. Carr.  A downloadable version of this paper is in preparation.

The proceedings of the 1992 conference on grassland conservation held by IFFA are available here as pdf's.  A consolidated version is to be produced and when it is it will be available from here.

I was mailed a copy of the new Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act guide for planners this week, published by the EPBC unit of WWF.  It's probably available on their website www.wwf.org.au/epbc for anyone who wants a copy quick.

Proceedings October 2-3, 1992

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All of the papers presented at the conference held on October 2-3, 1992 are listed below and all but two available as pdf files.

Temperate grasslands are one of the world's major vegetation systems, occurring widely on all continents except Antarctica. During the past two hundred years, the human influence on natural ecosystems has expanded at an alarming rate. As natural temperate grasslands occur in attractive climates, are generally fertile and easy to exploit, they have been replaced faster than most other ecosystems.