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.
On Sunday 31st October, Dr Ian Wright and project intern Holly Nettle ventured out into the field to collect new sets of data from the swamps we are monitoring at Lawson, Bullaburra and Medlow Bath, as part of our Upland Swamps project. Dr Wright shared posts about the expedition on Twitter.
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.
The Protected Areas Collaboration (PAC) for Learning & Research is now taking applications for their next round of scholarships.
BMWHI Adaptive Management for Conservation courses are eligible for scholarship support. Visit PAC Scholarships for more information and to apply.
The Australian Association of Bush Regenerators is building an online portal of helpful material about post-fire bush regeneration and ecological weed management after the wildfires of summer 2019-20. Learn about the importance of weeding and locate volunteers to assist your efforts.
Kosciuszko National Park provides habitat for many endangered and vulnerable native species. The bushfires have decimated a lot of what was left. Feral horses now threaten to destroy the remainder, and an urgent culling program is needed.
