Sustaining life
Tue, 03 Oct 2017A love for Australia’s wildlife lies at the core of our nation’s identity. It sustains our wellbeing. That is something that Dr Leonie Valentine can personally attest to as her passion for wildlife has helped her through good times and bad. Here she explains how.
I’ve wanted to be a zoologist since I was 4. It began with a field trip in the rainforests of Queensland’s Wet Tropics, an expedition led by the renowned
zoologist George Heinsohn. The story goes (for truth be said I can’t remember much of this, it’s a story my father recounts) that I followed George
around, watching him capture and identify all sorts of animals. I informed my parents that this is what I wanted to do when I grew up.
Top Image: Leonie with a quenda (also known as a southern brown bandicoot). Once common throughout many parts of coastal Australia, the quenda now only persists in isolated pockets in some urban and peri-urban reserves, where Leonie’s research is investigating their role in ecosystem restoration. These prodigious diggers are believed to play an important ecosystems engineering role by cycling nutrients and distributing seed and fungus. Photo: Mason Crane
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Banning savannah cats in Australia was good science
Wed, 23 Oct 2019In 2008, the Australian Government banned the importation of savannah cats to Australia, and that was a very good thing, according to a new scientific study by the Threatened Species Recovery Hub.
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Wineries for ringtails
Tue, 08 Oct 2019Properties in the Margaret River region have the opportunity to make a significant contribution to conserving the Critically Endangered Western Ringtail Possum. People don’t often think of possums as needing our help, but there are actually less western ringtail possums in the world than Bengal tigers.
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Indigenous action vital for Australia’s threatened species
Wed, 04 Sep 2019It is Threatened Species Day on 7 September. If you are a threatened species in Australia, chances are you are on Indigenous-managed land, as it is the last stronghold for many species which have been lost from the wider landscape .
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Native birds in South-eastern Australia worst affected by habitat loss
Tue, 03 Sep 2019New research has found that habitat loss is a major concern for hundreds of Australian bird species, and south-eastern Australia has been the worst affected. The Threatened Species Recovery Hub study found that half of all native bird species have each lost almost two-thirds of their natural habitat across Victoria, parts of South Australia and New South Wales.
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A Martu method for monitoring mankarr (greater bilby)
Tue, 20 Aug 2019Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa (KJ) Rangers in the Martu Determination have collaborated with Threatened Species Recovery Hub scientists to design a monitoring program for mankarr (the greater bilby). Martu people identified priorities for the bilby monitoring program, then worked with Dr Anja Skroblin from The University of Melbourne to co-develop a monitoring method which brings together Martu knowledge and practice with Western conservation science.
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