Biodiversity & conservation
About
The Fenner School is a world-leading centre for interdisciplinary research on the conservation and management of Australia’s distinctive biodiversity.
Our innovative research is helping to stem the rate of species endangerment and extinction by informing best practice management and policy for long-term biodiversity conservation.
Groups
We are a lab group at the Fenner School of Environment and Society researching conservation in the context of rewilding, genetics, translocations, and species coexistence. Led by Professor Adrian Manning, we aim to understand and restore ecosystems, prioritising species that shape landscapes and promote biodiversity.
The Difficult Bird Research Group (DBRG), led by Prof. Rob Heinsohn at the Fenner School, ANU, seeks to promote understanding of the ecology and conservation of Australia’s rarest and most elusive threatened bird species. Such species are often hard to find, occur in wild and rugged terrain, and move around the landscape, and are consequently put in the ‘too hard basket”; however the DBRG develop new cutting edge techniques that address the challenges posed by these species, and apply the knowledge gained to manage them more effectively.
It's crucial that we as a society communicate the huge importance of this system, celebrate its majestic wonder - and continue efforts to preserve and encourage river stewardship for future generations.
Sustainable Farms draws upon research programs across the Australian National University, focussing on three key research topics: Healthy Farms, Healthy Farmers, and Healthy Profits.
Projects
Members
Executive committee
Associate Professor
Representative, Reconciliation Action Plan
Academic staff
Associate Professor
Representative, Reconciliation Action Plan
Research Fellow
Research Fellow
Professor
Research Fellow
Professor
Affiliate
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Honorary Associate Professor
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Emeritus Professor
News
Indigenous Protected Areas have grown to protect more than half of Australia’s conservation estate, combining Traditional Owner stewardship, cultural knowledge and modern science to safeguard nature for future generations.
As scientists uncover thousands of previously unknown species, surprising new biodiversity hotspots are emerging from Australia to the Andes, reshaping our understanding of where Earth's richest wildlife lives and why protecting it has never been more urgent.
Researchers have mapped the hidden routes of Mexico's illegal parrot trade, using almost 30 years of data to predict trafficking hotspots.
An Indigenous community in Indonesia has found a way to protect one of the world's rarest cockatoos without abandoning a centuries-old sacred tradition, offering a new model for conservation.
The first scientific study of southern greater gliders overturns a decades-old belief about how far Australia's largest gliding marsupial can really glide, with important implications for conservation.
New research funded by the Australian Government’s Saving Native Species program has revealed alarming levels of inbreeding among the last remaining populations of the King Island scrubtit, a critically endangered songbird found nowhere else on Earth – but has also charted a path to save it through genetic rescue