Events
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This talk explores how engaging with diverse knowledge systems, across sciences, humanities, and Indigenous perspectives, can support truly transformative change in conservation, with insights from emerging UK-based frameworks and practices.
This talk presents findings from a global meta-analysis of 186 studies assessing biodiversity outcomes over time. It shows that in two-thirds of cases, conservation actions improved biodiversity or slowed its decline. Results highlight the effectiveness of targeted interventions such as invasive species control, habitat restoration, and protected areas—while calling for a transformational scale-up to meet global nature targets.
In Australia, where climate debate is polarized, Farmers for Climate Action (FCA) emerged in 2015 as a non-partisan charity uniting farmers with climate science and policy. This study delves into the experiences of New South Wales farmers who joined FCA.
Past events
Chytridiomycosis has driven amphibian declines for decades. This talk explores global research trends, long-term field data on two frog species in southeastern Australia, and how citizen science can help track population change in the face of ongoing disease threats.
This talk presents a 20-year case study of ecological restoration in a 50-hectare woodland. It highlights successful interventions and ongoing challenges, offering insights into long-term vegetation recovery and adaptive land management.
Explore well-being through the eyes of backpackers in Vietnam, and learn how slightly saline irrigation could support agriculture in Tonga. Two short talks offering fresh insights into human experience and environmental resilience in the Asia-Pacific.
This talk explores 41,000 years of human–landscape interaction on the Bassian Plain. Using pollen and charcoal records co-developed with Palawa and Truwana custodians, it reveals early human influence and insights for today’s land use and conservation strategies.
This seminar shares PhD research on reintroducing the endangered bush stone-curlew, covering survival predictors, cohort learning, wild training, and even a dog-assisted GPS recovery team. Insights offer a fresh recipe for successful reintroductions.
This seminar equips environment, sustainability, and engineering students with structured, evidence-based tools to plan, evaluate, and communicate social and environmental interventions using the Social Change Mapping framework and Theory of Change Canvas.
Polar marine environments are rich in biodiversity but challenging to study, resulting in limited and fragmented data. This research uses sponges as a model group to assess the state of online biodiversity data, revealing key gaps, duplication, and accessibility issues. It proposes a framework to improve database integration and highlights the need for better metadata in genetic datasets to support future monitoring and management of these vulnerable ecosystems.
This talk explores 8 years of research into New Zealanders' views on using gene technologies for environmental purposes, including public segmentation, framing effects, and insights from a national dialogue to inform policy.
Managing farm dams, freshwater wetlands, and wastewater lagoons for carbon and biodiversity benefits
Teal carbon ecosystems are freshwater wetlands, like lakes, ponds, farm dams and reservoirs. Equivalent to blue carbon (coastal wetlands), they can regulate greenhouse gases and mitigate the effects of climate change.