2026 Cumberland Plain Research Symposium
PRESENTATION SLIDES
We are pleased to share selected presentation slides from the 2026 Cumberland Plain Research Symposium.
Please note: not all presentations are available. Where indicated, please contact us and we can connect you directly with the speaker.
Engaging People
Joshua Staines – Defining Cultural Fire across the Cumberland Plain Woodland
Steph Hernandez – The Socio-economic Challenges in Developing Restoration Policy. Lessons from the New South Wales Biodiversity Offsets Scheme (Email us)
Emmanuel Ugwu – Differential social and ecological outcomes of private land conservation agreements in New South Wales, Western Sydney, and the CPCP Strategic Conservation Area
On-ground Restoration
Vera O’Donovan – Fire as a Restoration Tool: Early Outcomes from the Cumberland Plain Restoration Program
Xuela Sledge - Cumberland Plain Restoration Program: off Park sites
Rajendra Shilpakar - Spatially Explicit Revegetation to Enhance Biodiversity Benefits in Cumberland Plain Woodland
Paul Gibson-Roy - Characterisation of 9 CPW Restorations 10-years Post Seeding
Translating Evidence
Hannah Carle – A first look at how climate sensitivity is distributed across plant diversity in the Cumberland Plains
Caitlin Dagg - Understanding biodiversity change in Cumberland Plain remnants: what LiDAR, birds, and plants are telling us
Paola Pisetta Raupp - Restoring woodland understories under changing rainfall: the roles of seeding diversity and soil layer (Email us)