Category: Blog
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Deforestation in Australia: drivers, trends and policy responses
Here is my presentation delivered at the Society for Conservation Biology – Oceania Conference this week in Brisbane, where I spoke within the symposium Conservation Oceania Style: Highlighting Oceania’s unique approaches to conservation biology and on ground outcomes The talk summarises my recent paper in a special issue of Pacific Conservation Biology. There’s also a short summary in…
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Policy internship at the Australian Academy of Science
Earlier this year, I was very fortunate to join the Australian Academy of Science for a 3 month internship in the Academy’s Science Policy team. The internship was for first of its kind offered by the Academy, and provided me with a unique opportunity to learn about its policy and advocacy work. I was attracted…
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Queensland moves to control land clearing: other states need to follow
This article was originally published in The Conversation, and features my new paper published in Pacific Conservation Biology Queensland’s land clearing has yet again become a national issue. After laws were relaxed under the Liberal-National State government in 2013, land clearing rates tripled, undermining efforts to conserve wildlife and reduce carbon emissions. Now the current…
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Future Earth Australia workshop #FutureEarthOz
Since February, I’ve been spending time at the Australian Academy of Science as an intern in their Science Policy team. As part of this role I recently had the privilege of attending the Future Earth Australia workshop. Below is a summary of the event – also posted as a Storify (with tweets and images): https://storify.com/megcevans/future-earth-australia-workshop Over 28-29th…
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SCB-Oceania Member Spotlight
The Society for Conservation – Oceania section is currently on the lookout for two new members to join the board (apply before 29th April!) . I’ve been a member of the SCB Oceania board for just over a year, and was this week in the ‘member spotlight‘ – which is a regular section of our newsletter where we highlight the work…
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Applying a public policy lens to environmental decision making
Here are the slides from my presentation at the opening session of this year’s CEED conference, which I had the privilege of being part of along with 5 other early career researchers from the Universities of Melbourne, Queensland, Western Australia (I was the ANU representative). Looking forward to three days of catching up with old and…
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Speed symposium at #SCBO2016
The Society for Conservation Biology – Oceania section will have its next conference in Brisbane, July 2016. I’m very happy to say that a speed symposium that I have proposed with my incredible colleagues Claudia Benham and Nadine Marshall has been accepted! It was really encouraging to see quite a large social science presence at the…
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