26th Annual Conference of the
Australasian Primate Society
Held on October 4 -5, 2008
South Australian Museum

Adelaide, South Australia
 

Abstracts of the 2008 Conference 

The Australasian Primate Society held their 2008 conference at the South Australian Museum on October 4 & 5.

Overall the conference was successful and inspiring. Presentations were held on the Saturday of which were varied and very interesting. These included presentations about Great Apes, Lemurs, Macaques, Proboscis monkeys, and Nutrition. There was a range of speakers, from students to expert primatologists.

Please note that although Tony Gilding was not able to make the conference, the time allotted to his talk was dedicated to discussing oil palm by all participants. Dr Carla Litchfield has provided some links which have been included at the end of this update for your perusal.

After a very enlightening day and lengthy Annual General Meeting (outcomes below) a large group from the conference had a dinner together on Saturday night.

On Sunday transport was provided for participants to head out to Monarto Zoo. We enjoyed a lovely day touring the large zoo and the recently constructed chimpanzee enclosure. We enjoyed a brief meet and greet with Jane Goodall and got the great pleasure of hearing her inspiring speak to open the new enclosure. After a lovely picnic lunch we headed back to the Adelaide Zoo for a quick primate tour. It was a beautiful day filled with fun and inspiring people and primates.
Some photos should be available on the web site soon.

Outcomes from the Annual General Meeting:

* Due to lack of resources and submissions, the annual journal will be deferred until further discussions at the next AGM 2009. There will be an online newsletter available March - April 2009 including details about the next conference and AGM.
Any other suggestions or offers of help would be welcomed at this time.

* Elissa Pearson will be the editor of this newsletter. We really appreciate Elissa for taking this on and she will be requesting submissions for the newsletter via email in January 2009.
If you have any ideas or information to submit for the newsletter please do pass this information on to Elissa, because without submissions, we have no newsletter to print.

* It is proposed that future journal editions will only be available online via a PDF through the web site.

* In view of these proposed changes, membership fees will be reviewed at the next AGM. Unfortunately there was not a quorum to make a decision on this suggestion at this AGM.
Therefore all executive and sate representative positions still stand as they were.

* A date and conference host for 2009 is still to be decided, so please regularly check the web site for updates. If there are any volunteers to host the conference please contact Nicole Wilson:

Here are the promised links:

*Grasp Australia
* Palm Oil Action Group

   Abstracts of the 2007 Queensland Conference 

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