Veg Futures 08 - Australia's national vegetation conference

Greening Australia and Land & Water Australia invite you to Veg Futures 2008 – a comprehensive, practical conference about the nation’s most pressing challenges for vegetation management in regional and peri–urban landscapes.

Spotlight on vegetation management

Veg Futures 08 will tackle the big questions around vegetation management with a focus on biodiversity, water quality and landscape resilience in the face of climate change. The conference will also explore the policy environment for vegetation management, the potential role of carbon markets, the latest techniques for revegetation as well as specialist sessions on the role of art in the environment and communication for NRM practitioners.

Hot topics of the conference:

Landscape, regional and continental scale restoration and management
Climate change and biodiversity
Carbon markets and Market Based Instruments (MBIs)
Native seed and revegetation
Integrating biodiversity and production
Peri-urban challenges
Communication for the NRM sector