Ecologist at @bushheritageaus. Passionate about conservation and right-way science. Interests: fire + plant ecology, deserts, kwongan, floodplains, bush tucker
New South Wales, Australia
Joined April 2014
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Fantastic Indigenous women rangers leading two-way science in the desert. Very lucky to be able to work with them and learn from them. #WomenInScienceDay @WomenInScience #Birriliburu #Kiwirrkurra @BushHeritageAus
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Jodie and Nolia Ward from Kiwirrkurra IPA talking about hunting #feralcats to eat, which benefits threatened Ninu (Bilby) and Tjalapa (great desert skink). Both native species are culturally important to Ananagu people #WAFeralCat23 #WildOz
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Microplastics pollute every inshore plankton sample I collect. There are many new, modern wool fabrics with similar benefits to manmade materials. As your old plastic clothing wears out why not make a New Year's resolution to replace it with natural fibres. @zeiss_micro
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Amazing news comes in twos! Congratulations to our very own Pius Gregory and Leigh-Ann Woolley for being awarded the Bush Heritage 'Right-Way Science' Award for their presentation showcasing cross-cultural or two-way collaboration between Traditional Owners and WWF!
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🎉Huge thanks to everyone involved in this collaborative project! Especially to the Yirralka Rangers, Yolngu TOs, #LearningonCountry teams from Laynhapuy Homelands and Gapuwiyak School and my amazing supervisors @EmilieEns @rdudaniec and Frances Morphy thankyou bukmak 🥳🥳🥳
So proud of @bridge_campbell and the Yolngu Yirralka Rangers as joint winners of the #ESASCBO2022 Bush Heritage 'Right-way' Science Award for their presentation on their new cross-cultural approach to fauna surveys in north east Arnhem 👏🏼 Go team! @mqnatsci @Macquarie_Uni
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Huge congratulations to the Yirralka Rangers and @bridge_campbell for co-winning the @BushHeritageAus right-way science award for their cross-cultural biodiversity survey djäma! Your talk was amazing and your work is excellent! Well done! 🦎🌱💚
🎉Huge thanks to everyone involved in this collaborative project! Especially to the Yirralka Rangers, Yolngu TOs, #LearningonCountry teams from Laynhapuy Homelands and Gapuwiyak School and my amazing supervisors @EmilieEns @rdudaniec and Frances Morphy thankyou bukmak 🥳🥳🥳
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I was honoured to receive the @EcolSocAus Members Service Prize at #ESASCBO2022 this week. With @gerry_turpin, @CostelloOli and many others since 2010 we built influential annual Indigenous symposia.. together we can make change ❤💛🖤 #alwayswasalwayswillbe @mqnatsci @MQSciEng
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What a great week it has been, immersed in all things ecological at #esascbo2022 with the @EcolSocAus & my amazing friend & respected Elder Lesley. Also a rare occasion to catch up with fellow cross-cultural ecologists from all over the country- you mob are an inspiration!
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Congratulations to all! Such important work 👏👏👏
Well done to the joint winners of the @BushHeritageAus Right-way Science Prize #ESASCBO22: Bridget Campbell and the Yirralka Rangers AND Leigh-Ann Wooley and Pius Gregory, WWF
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So proud of @bridge_campbell and the Yolngu Yirralka Rangers as joint winners of the #ESASCBO2022 Bush Heritage 'Right-way' Science Award for their presentation on their new cross-cultural approach to fauna surveys in north east Arnhem 👏🏼 Go team! @mqnatsci @Macquarie_Uni – at Sydney, New South Wales
Well done to the joint winners of the @BushHeritageAus Right-way Science Prize #ESASCBO22: Bridget Campbell and the Yirralka Rangers AND Leigh-Ann Wooley and Pius Gregory, WWF
Well done Lynda Maybanks for winning the Indigenous-led Science Prize #ESASCBO22 supported by @BushHeritageAus
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Bandibandi Wunuŋmurra, Brendan Wunuŋmurra, Darren Wanambi and I will be talking about our rambaŋi djäma (working together) on Yolŋu country in the ‘collaborative approaches to monitoring significant spp using IK, technical assessments & cit sci’ symposium. 11am Monday @EcolSocAus
At #ESASCBO2022 next month: the Yirralka Rangers and @ShainaRussell8 will outline the co-designing and co-delivering of a camera trap network in the Laynhapuy Indigenous Protected Area.
esascbo2022.org.au
#IEK #IndigenousRangers #CaringForCountry @NLC_74 @@Macquarie_Uni
Arafura Swamp Rangers speaking to a packed room #RightwayScience @BushHeritageAus @ESASCBO2022
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This extraordinary grass tree lives on a property near Seymour in central Victoria. With grass trees growing a few cm each year, we can safely say this individual is ... very old. If we look after the land we'll be able to see ancient grass trees like this all over the state.
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A refreshed spring morning post midnight storm turns a claypan into a theatre for a froggy orchestra on @BushHeritageAus western NSW property Naree Station on beautiful #budjiti country!
What species can you hear?
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JOB ALERT 💼 🌱
We are seeking an Ecologist - South Australian Arid Rangelands. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading conservation not-for-profit and help us achieve our vision of Healthy Country, Protected Forever
Click for more info 👉 applynow.net.au/jobs/ESA2022
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Did you know emu Dads are the primary care-givers? A big brood for this one! Keeping watch over them taking a deep drink, and enjoying one himself at Hamelin Reserve on Mulgana Country. @BushHeritageAus
