HUNTER WETLANDS CENTRE INVITES YOU TO THE INAUGURAL
Artist – Alison Ellis
Wednesday 31 August 2022
Hunter Wetlands Centre Shortland
Hosted by Hunter Wetlands Centre in partnership with the Australian Ramsar Administrative Authority, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Hunter Bird Observers Club and the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership.
The Hunter Estuary supports many communities and a challenging range of land uses and livelihoods.
Join with agencies and stakeholders that manage, provide services, monitor and educate.
Hear keynote speakers with knowledge and experience that has relevance for the Hunter Estuary
Explore what the estuary needs to be a healthy functioning ecosystem for generations to come.
Share ideas for new social partnerships that might benefit the Hunter Estuary and its communities from source to sea.
Our Program
The forum program has been designed around these five questions developed with our speakers
How does Ramsar status
offer opportunities for the management of
the Hunter Estuary?
How do the values of and our connections to the Hunter River influence how we manage it?
Who are the estuary stakeholders and what are their priorities?
How can social partnerships play a role in managing complimentary lands with different tenures?
How can the best ideas from today’s conversation be captured and moved forward?
Our Speakers
Kathryn Eyles
Ramsar National
Focal Point, Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Mitchell Carter
NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Area Manager-Lower Hunter Area
William Glamore
Principal Research Fellow, UNSW Water Research Laboratory, Interim CEO, Sydney Institute of Marine Science
Doug Watkins
CEO, East-Asian Australasian Flyway Partnership
Alison Russell-French OAM
Chair, Woodlands and Wetlands Trust ACT
Estuary stakeholders
A selection of locals involved in governance, knowledge, education and industry
Timeline
7:30am
Gates open for those who would like an early morning wetland wander
8:45am – 4pm
Forum Program
Education Building,
Hunter Wetlands Centre
1pm
Lunch break
4pm – 5:30pm
Forum close & wind-down with drinks and nibbles
Hunter Wetlands Visitors Centre
Our Keynote Speakers
Dr Kathryn Eyles
Dr Kathy Eyles works in the Wetlands Section of the new DCCEEW, and is the National Focal Point for the Ramsar Convention in Australia. Kathy has had a varied career across the public and NGO sectors as an environmental planner, program manager, policy analyst and NRM Facilitator. After time out for study, Kathy returned to the Commonwealth Government in 2017 working in Natural and Indigenous Heritage and as the Knowledge Broker for the National Environmental Science program.
Outside of work, Kathy is a conservation volunteer with the Parkcare program in the ACT; a former convenor of the Friends of Mulligans Flat, and Co-convenor of Mt Taylor Parkcare Group; as well as a member of the management committees of the Southern ACT Catchment Group and Canberra Ornithologists Group and the Members Council of Landcare ACT.
Dr William Glamore
Alison Russell-French OAM
Alison was a career Public Servant in the Australian Public Service (APS) for 32 years. She was a member of the Senior Executive Service of the Australian Public Service in the Department of Environment for 10 years. Her APS career spanned a wide range of policy development and program implementation, delivery and administration across environment and conservation, heritage, coastal, natural resources and fisheries management areas. These included representational responsibilities on behalf of the Australian government with the Commission on Sustainable Development, the Global Environment Facility, APEC, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, Wetlands International, and the East Asian – Australasian Flyway Partnership.
Alison has had a long association with several non-government organisations including positions as Chair/President of Wetlands International – Asia Pacific, Birds Australia and the Australasian Wader Studies Group.
Alison was appointed Chair/President of the Woodlands and Wetlands Trust (WWT) in Canberra in 2014 following a restructuring of the Board and the organisation. The Trust works in partnership with the ANU and the ACT Government in delivery of enhanced management of the Mulligans Flat and Jerrabomberra Wetlands Nature Reserves and is currently completing a Visitors Centre for Mulligans Flat in the suburb of Throsby.
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Questions?
Please email Christine Prietto at ramsar@wetlands.org.au
or phone Peter Nelson on 0423 026 717
We acknowledge the Awabakal, Worimi and Mindaribba people as the Traditional Owners of the wetlands on which we work and live, and recognise their continuing connection to land, water and Community.
We also pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
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www.wetlands.org.au