Veg Futures 08

Greening Australia and Land & Water Australia wish to thank all delegates who attended the highly successful Veg Futures 08 conference in Toowoomba, October 2008.

Spotlight on vegetation management

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

Veg Futures 08 tackled the big questions around vegetation management with a focus on biodiversity, water quality and landscape resilience in the face of climate change. The conference also explored 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.

What are the big questions?

• What is the role and value of vegetation in the regional landscape?
• Who pays for vegetation management?
• How do we balance competing demands for conservation and production?
• What are we doing about the threats to native vegetation?
• How do we know if we are making a difference?

Veg Futures 08 set out to answer these questions through a combination of keynote addresses, workshops, and paddock sessions, looking from the continental scale to the paddock, and with a diverse array of researchers, practitioners and farmers.