Community Day
| Provisional Program | |||
| OPENING & INTRODUCTION | |||
| 9.00 | 9.10 | Barbara Johnson | Welcome - also to introduce Traditional Owners and any politicians present and explain that they will be available for questions and morning tea |
| 9.10 | 9.20 | Blanche Barney: Bubble Bubble Springs Sheeba Digangari: Cumburumba Eileen Huddleson: Kneebone Minunet Carlton: Ningbing Phylis Ningamari: Flyng Fox Judy Mangle: Bucket Springs |
Traditional Welcome Organised by JuJu Wilson |
| 9.20 | 9.30 | Malcolm Douglas | Broome Wilderness Park and Broome crocodile farm |
| 9.30 | 9.40 | Tim Winton | Leading Australian Author |
| SET ONE - Current Status of Cane Toads. | each speaker will have 15mins and 5 mins for questions | ||
| Chairperson | Barbara Johnson. |
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| 10.00 | 10.20 | Dave Walden | Predicting ecological impacts of cane toads: a preliminary risk assessment for Kakadu National Park |
| 10.20 | 10.40 | Holmes, Jarrad | Brief summaries of WWF's 'Cane Toads as a Key Threatening Process' nomination and the National Cane Toad Taskforce’. |
| 10.40 | 11.00 | Victor Cooper: Indigenous speaker from Kakadu | Management of the cane toad and its impacts in the Northern Territory |
| 11.00 | 11.30 | Morning Tea (30 mins) | |
| Art Auction - Run during the morning tea break | |||
| SET TWO - Local Speakers | each speaker will have 15mins and 15 mins for questions | ||
| Where does Our WA government stand? | |||
| Chairperson | Andrew Storey |
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| 11.30 | 11.50 | Gordon Wyre/Noel Wilson | Local information - what is happening in the Kimberley region |
| 11.50 | 12.10 | Tim Croot. | Cane Toads-One of the Potential Pests in the Region. |
| 12.10 | 12.30 | Lachlan Dobson | Cane Toads- Know no Boundaries |
| 12.30 | 12.50 | Russell Gueho | Cane Toads in WA: A Prediction |
| 1.00 | 2.00 | Lunch (60 mins) | |
| Poster Competition run during lunch break. | |||
| 1.00 | 1.20 | Distribution of prizes and certificates - Malcolm Douglas / Katya Tripp | |
| SET THREE - Control of cane toads. | each speaker will have 15 mins and 5 mins for questions | ||
| Can we, as a community do something? | |||
| Chairperson | Chris Adams |
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| 2.00 | 2.20 | Graeme Sawyer | Traps and Attractants |
| 2.20 | 2.40 | Allan Thomson | "The Western Front"
A Battle Plan to Keep Cane Toads out of Western Australia |
| 2.40 | 3.00 | Paul Sharpe | Regional Exclusion Barriers against Cane Toads.
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| 3.00 | 3.45 | Afternoon Tea (45 mins) | |
| Trish Mason from Glenella 'eco' Park "doing their bit for conservation" Trish will show a power point presentation of their breeding program and show living examples of some of the animal species that have been devastated by the cane toad. Glenella eco park is the only captive breeding program of the critically endangered northern Quoll currently in existence, anywhere in the world. |
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| 3.45-5.00pm Opportunity for community to speak to scientists, government and guests to express their thoughts on the cane toad entering the Kimberley and what they want done about it | |||
| Video's | History of the Cane Toad. | ||
| Goannas and Rubbish Frogs. | |||
| Other video's TBA will be shown throughout the day | |||
| Close: 5:00 Pm | |||
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