The Reimagining Conservation Forum - Working Together for Healthy Country, will be held in Brisbane from Nov 2nd - 4th, 2022. This First Nations-led Forum brings together First Nations leaders and practitioners involved in the policies and practices of land and sea management across Australia.
A video is now live on the critical post-fire monitoring project we are conducting in the Grose Valley region of the Blue Mountains. A diverse team of hydrologists, geomorphologists and ecologists is collecting data and modelling scenarios to inform remedial actions and fire preparations.
In Dec 2021 the public was invited to hear cultural ecologist David Abram in conversation with the leading voices of Australia’s First Peoples as they explored our place in the more-than-human world. The video recording of each webinar is now available to view.
Scenic World and the Institute are committed to collaborating to continue the ecological monitoring program in the Jamison Valley, below and around Scenic World, and contributing to ecological data sets for the benefit of science and the public.
We’re pleased to report that our iNaturalist project, capturing observations of flora and fauna across the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, surpassed 50,000 observations of over 4000 species in January 2022, thanks to over 2,000 citizen scientists.
Holly Nettle is currently an Environmental Science cadet with the Blue Mountains City Council and a research intern with the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute, helping us out with coordination and data collection relating to our Upland Swamps monitoring and decision support project.
Is it the start of ecosystem collapse? The drought in Australia was a significant driver of the summer bushfires. But it also caused another, less well known environmental calamity: entire hillsides of trees turned from green to brown.
Many Australians feel compelled to help our damaged wildlife after this season’s terrible bushfires. Suggested actions have included donating money, leaving water out for thirsty animals, and learning how to help the injured. But there is an equally, if not more, important way to assist: weeding.
The Dead Tree Detective is a citizen science project run by researchers from the Western Sydney University to collect observations of dead or dying trees around Australia. It was set-up to help better understand the physiology of tree mortality and is open to all members of the public who notice dead or dying trees.
