Today we launched Tasmania in Action - a collaboration between Our Common Place, UTAS and TLC, with input from NRE Tas, PWS, IFS. Based in evidence - this learning resource is designed to strengthen conservation practice and professional capacity across Australia - check it out below
Posts by Cath Dickson
Busy start to #ICCB2025 - sharing @tasland.bsky.social ten year fauna camera data set - pre & post-fire at Five Rivers. Huge shout out to coauthors including @drdevildave.bsky.social & Jo Potts
Great #NESP Resilient Landscapes Hub session @ #ICCB2025 - translating science into convention outcomes through meaningful relationships. Two fantastic @tasland.bsky.social @utas.edu.au projects presented by Natasha Stoudmann and Laura Smith.
Anne Boothroyd sharing her work on @tasland.bsky.social Conservation Prioritisation System (using MARXAN) to I'd our priorities across Tasmania, as part of TNC's Barbara Thomas Fellowship. @iccb2025.bsky.social #ICCB2025
Download our CPS Guidebook here:
tasland.org.au/wp-content/u...
This #citizenscience month we are so excited to share with you our new #WildTracker video, produced by the incredibly talented #animation students at North Metro TAFE in WA.
Huge thanks to Charlotte, Kai, & the rest of the team for their #hardwork & #creativity.
Illustration of a Greenlandic landscape, showing in the foreground Rhododendron lapponicum on a cliff, with sea ice and icebergs in the background. Illustration by Alberto S. Ballesteros (@asbillustration.bsky.social)
🌸Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic 🌸
Our new study @nature.com analysed plant diversity change in >2000 tundra plots over 4 decades. We found that plants changed unevenly, mostly driven by warming and biotic interactions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Awesome job Team Quoll!
David Hamilton releases a quoll into the wild Photo credit: Cath Dickson
A close up of quoll feet Photo credit: David Hamilton
A close up of a quoll in an enclosure Photo credit: Chloe Frick
Celebrating a wildlife win on World Wildlife Day, with quoll-ity conservation outcomes 🤩
Our scientists joined with several partners to kick off one of the biggest eastern quoll conservation efforts ever seen in Tasmania!
More: brnw.ch/quoll
(Follow @drdevildave.bsky.social for more quoll BEANS)
This is a fantastic opportunity for those looking for a funded Masters by Research shorebird project, including a paid internship with our Science Team at @tasland.bsky.social - details below or get in touch!
@drdevildave.bsky.social
NSW herbarium digitised collection is now available online
www.botanicgardens.org.au/our-science/...
The joy of heading south as the #MacquarieIslandConservationFoundation rep and with part of the MI Wildlife Monitoring Team - looking forward to seeing Macca again 🐧🦭
Photo of an Eastern bettong
It is with great pleasure that we share this photo of an Eastern bettong for our first @bsky.app post. This friendly fellow also graced the cover of our 2023-2024 Annual Report. Our report is now online and available to download at tasland.org.au/about-the-tlc/annual-reports/
🌎The Plant Ecology of Nature-Based Solutions
A Special Feature providing:
🔸focused analysis of the #plant #ecology of NbS
🔸key insights, challenges & opportunities for future research
#COP29 #COP16Biodiversity 🧵1/13 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652745...
Nutrients, isolation and lack of grazing limit plant diversity in restored wetlands 🌱🌏 🧪
Restoration of plant diversity in wetlands is challenging, but the results of this study point to potential remedies 💭
🔗 https://buff.ly/3YINJDk
🌎 #Plants are at the heart of nature-based solutions.
🌱 This Special Feature covers #grasslands to #mangroves & from #agro-#ecosystems to #urban #forests that illustrate how we can improve & scale up NbS by incorporating cutting-edge theory & techniques: jecologyblog.com/2024/11/28/%...
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🎶 I’m the problem, it’s me 🎶
Did you know - 99% of camera trap photos taken in Tasmania are of brushtail possums messing with equipment…