Conservation and Development Issues in North Australia

I. Moffatt and A. Webb
North Australia Research Unit, Australian National University,

This collection of papers/chapters provide information on conservation and development issues including methodologies for environmental management. It is an indication of current concerns and possible ways of promoting ecologically sustainable development in Australia's north. In chapters 11 "Managing the Magpie Goose in the Northern Territory: approaches to conservation of mobile fauna in a patchy environment", 17 "Towards a vegetation management strategy for the Northern Territory" and 19 "The Pastoral Industry in the Arid Zone of Central Australia" there is mention of the Daly River. A large majority of the chapters have some relevance to the land use/development issues of the Daly Region.