What does the draft Independent Review of Western Shield include?
The draft Independent Review of Western Shield (pdf, 241kb) is a report compiled by three independent scientists commissioned by the Executive Director of the Department of Conservation and Land Management to undertake a review of the Department's Western Shield fauna recovery program. The review panel was asked to report on all aspects of the project's management, implementation and outcomes and make recommendations for improvements.
The terms of reference of the review panel are included as an appendix to the panel's draft report.
To assist the panel in undertaking the review, the Department of Conservation and Land Management commissioned the writing of 12 review papers on a range of topics associated with the Western Shield program. The authors of those papers were given specific instructions on the scope and detail that their papers were to include. The terms of reference for the authors of the review papers are also set out in an appendix to the review panel's report. [Note: The review papers are currently being peer-reviewed by persons external to the Department and they will be published in a single volume of the Department's scientific publication Conservation Science Western Australia (formerly called CALM Science).
To further assist the review panel the Department also organised a one-day public workshop at which a summary of each of the 12 papers was presented orally. The Department also organised a one-day closed workshop attended by the authors of the review papers and invited senior Department staff, representatives from sister conservation agencies in other parts of the country.
Field trips were arranged to the captive breeding facilities at the Perth Zoo, to the Department's experimental bait production facility at Harvey, the captive breeding facilities (Return to Dryandra) and the public fauna viewing facilities (Barna Mia) located as Dryandra Forest, and to the captive breeding facilities at Francois Peron National Park. At each of these venues the review panel m | 
