Associate Professor Tanya Latty is an entomologist from the school of life and environmental sciences at the University of Sydney with a special interest in ecology and conservation.

She is the co-founder and outreach lead of Invertebrates Australia, and is currently running the Christmas beetle project.

More Information

https://invertebratesaustralia.org/

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/christmas-beetle-count

https://www.sydney.edu.au/science/our-research/research-areas/life-and-environmental-sciences/christmas-beetle-population-project.html

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He grew up watching ants in a South London woodland, now Professor Richard Fuller spends his career tracking birds that fly from Australia to the Arctic and back.

In this episode, Richard joins Mark to unpack why humans perceive "healthy" nature so differently, why his research has quietly demolished the popular theory that childhood nature exposure creates lifelong environmentalists, and why environmental concern might be partly written into our genes.

Then the conversation turns to his major body of work: migratory shorebirds like the Far Eastern Curlew, a species that's lost more than 80% of its population in 30 years.

Richard walks through the satellite-tagging research that traced these birds' migration to a handful of critical stopover sites in China's Yellow Sea, the citizen scientists who first sounded the alarm, and the extraordinary 2018 policy win that may finally be turning the tide.

More Information

https://www.fullerlab.org

https://ebird.org/ebird/home

https://birdlife.org.au/

https://cbcs.centre.uq.edu.au/

https://waders.org.au/

Curlew Photo Credit: Nick Rogers

https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/people/nick_rogers

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Lisa Blair is an Australian solo sailor who holds multiple world records and is an advocate for action against climate change, which she promotes through her Climate Action Now project.

Lisa is the author of the book, Facing Fear, and stars in her own documentary film, Ice Maiden.

More Information

https://lisablairsailstheworld.com/

https://www.instagram.com/lisablairsailstheworld

https://m.facebook.com/LisaBlairSailstheWorld

https://lisablairsailstheworld.com/post-message

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Ted Cheeseman leads one of the world’s largest Whale Citizen Scientist Projects. In fact it may be the largest Citizen Science Project for Whales in the world. 

Citizen Scientist contributors around the world have been photographing the underside of the flukes of Humpback Whales for almost ten years and uploading these images to a Whale Fluke database.

Whale markings are then cross correlated with other images in the database and specific whales can be identified. This is valuable information for Whale Research scientists.

More information

https://happywhale.com/home

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/tedcheese/snapshots-at-sea-whale-identification

https://www.changingseas.tv/season-14/1402/

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Tonight on the show we are talking to a Professor David Watson, an Ecologist who monitors sound in the environment for the A20 Project. 

This project helps to monitor Australian ecosystems so that we can gauge the health of the environment. 

More Information

https://acousticobservatory.org/

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Tonight on the show we are speaking with Graham Tupper, the former Manager of the Northern Australia Program for the Australian Conservation Foundation and a former wildlife tour guide south of Canberra.

Graham is the President of The Friends of the North Coast Regional Botanic Garden Inc., a Not-for-Profit Association that works in partnership with the City of Coffs Harbour to maintain and develop the botanic garden.

Graham has been involved in projects including the Seed Bank and Fauna Survey.

More Information

https://coffsbotanicgarden.com.au/

https://coffsbotanicgarden.com.au/learn/nature-gallery/

https://coffsbotanicgarden.com.au/support/friends-of-the-botanic-garden/

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Catriona Walker describes herself as a “grower, forager, maker, mender and mother” who lives on a tiny Scottish island in the UK.

A true citizen scientist, Catriona is making a difference in her own way, by sharing her fascination of moths that live in her backyard with the world…and it has brought awareness and attracted a surprisingly high following on Instagram.

More Information

https://www.instagram.com/clouded.silver/

https://butterfly-conservation.org/in-your-area/east-scotland-branch/budget-bucket-moth-trap

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David Trood is a YouTube sensation who inspires people to get into their garden and grow organic food.

His movie; Down the Carrot Hole, demonstrates a meticulous attention to detail in filmmaking and storytelling.

His spectacular filming techniques help people to understand the processes of nature and encourage a fruitful and thriving healthy lifestyle.

More Information

https://www.youtube.com/@TheWeedyGarden

https://www.theweedygarden.com/

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International dog trainer Steve Austin has spent more than 30 years teaching dogs to do things that still sound unbelievable: locate invasive weeds by scent, find animal remains beneath wind turbines, and help eradicate rabbits, rats and mice from an entire subantarctic island.

In this episode, Steve joins hosts Ian Campbell and Dani Lloyd-Prichard to trace his journey from a Sydney childhood spent racing pigeons to a career spanning quarantine, search and rescue, police and conservation detection work.

He shares the story behind his career-defining project on Macquarie Island, explains what makes a great working dog, and opens up about his pro-bono work training prison inmates to prepare rescue dogs for veterans living with PTSD, a program that's helped prevent suicides and seen zero reoffending.

Expect hard-won wisdom, genuine heart, and at least one story involving an elephant seal and a very unfortunate swim.

More Information

https://www.austinsdogtrainingeducation.com.au/about-steve-austin

https://dcdogs.com.au/

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What does the Australian bush actually sound like. and what can it tell us about the species trying to survive in it?

In this episode, Mark sits down with Dr Daniella Teixeira, an acoustic ecologist at the Queensland University of Technology, whose research uses sound recordings to study wildlife across Australia, with a particular focus on the endangered black cockatoo.

Daniella walks through the tiny remote recorders capturing months of forest audio, how AI is transforming the way researchers identify species from sound, and new research suggesting individual black cockatoos may each have their own distinguishable "voice."

The conversation ranges from the dawn chorus and parrot mimicry to a brand-new mangrove project that will take her acoustic research underwater for the first time, plus how citizen scientists can already get involved counting glossy black cockatoos, with new tools on the way to help identify bird calls online.

More Information

https://www.daniellateixeira.com/

https://cbcs.centre.uq.edu.au/profile/112/daniella-teixeira

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