Meet me! I’m Cath, the social media rep 🤓 I’m a PhD student, researching how ecological modelling could help improve restoration decisions and the management of invasive species and ultimately reduce the uncertainty around management outcomes in magical WA 🌸
Meet the team! President Courtney Melton 🌞 Her PhD project seeks to understand the value of understorey vegetation as a habitat resource supporting small woodland birds and a potential deterrent of a Key Threatening Process to their decline – overabundant, native, noisy miners.
Meet the team! VP Ella Cathcart-van Weeren ✨ She is studying a Master degree in Conservation Biology at UQ. Before beginning her journey into conservation science, she completed a Bachelor of Agribusiness, working within the horticultural industry.
Meet the team! Secretary Laetitia 🌊She is a PhD candidate working on the stress physiology of dugongs and manatees. Her research involves using faeces to analyse hormone concentrations and investigate the impacts of environmental disturbances on the health of sirenians
The climate really is changing. The things those scientists were warning us about are coming to pass, just as they predicted. And, here’s the thing: I’m one of those scientists. | Opinion by David Watson https://t.co/3pdQwCmFds
With Australia on fire, here’s some photos of glorious WA flora that I work with, so we can remember what a beautiful country we have and why we should all keep doing our best to save it ❤️ Though surely for now nothing compares to the courage of volunteer fire fighters.
“Let’s imagine nature is our patient, and biodiversity loss is a malady. Avoiding impacts is analogous to preventing illness, whilst compensation is the cure for it. The important question, then, is which is preferable, prevention or cure? And under what circumstances?”
Using the UK as an example, Joseph W. Bull and @EJMilnerGulland join the @BESPolicy team and present their new model, designed to simulate prevention and cure tactics for decision makers: https://t.co/wDDO6dcF3M
@alicatling and I had a taste of ID-ing eucalypts in Tasmania this month, for her exciting #drought tolerance PhD project. Don’t know how people do this on the mainland with 700 species!! 🤦♀️