April Reside 🦇

This new research estimates the price and benefits of recovering threatened species – and offers cost-effective ways for environment groups, farmers, governments and others to make a difference. @april_reside @cyclonewatson @CSIRO @UQ_News theconversation.com/fully-recoveri…

New research estimates the cost of recovering Australia’s threatened species to be a whopping AU$583B per year for at least 30 years. While the figure isn’t proposed as a realistic budget for biodiversity conservation, it highlights the sheer scale of work to be done. @ConversationEDU @april_reside @UQscience theconversation.com/fully-recoveri…

The best part of my job is working with fantastic, dedicated people who are doing great things for conservation. Honours student Emilee Thomson wrote this great blog about her research. Enjoy! 🦎 ❤️ Dragon detection – Finding the Condamine earless dragon wildlifeconservationlab.com/post/dragon-de…

@ZK_Wild @AFProbert @UQscience @ESA_org @UQ_CBCS @Society4ConBio @TheWCS @AusHerpetology @aus_herp @deborah_bower It’s a domestic student application round, there will be international student rounds in future, but the current one is only for domestic students

@april_reside @AFProbert @UQscience @ESA_org @UQ_CBCS @Society4ConBio @TheWCS @AusHerpetology @aus_herp @deborah_bower Open to international students or not?

PhD projects available on threatened reptiles @UQscience Please be in touch if interested! wildlifeconservationlab.com/post/phd-proje…

Join me @UQscience @UQ_CBCS to work on threatened reptile conservation - domestic scholarship round closes 8 Sept 2024 so be in touch before then! 🦎🐍 Please share! Thanks @CNZdenek for the tile 😀🐍🦎

This local habitat is under immediate threat from development. It is one of the few places in the greater Brisbane area that contains the iconic Frill-necked Lizard! The endangered Collared Delma (Delma torquata) is also suspected to be here. Petition: queenslandconservation.org.au/save_woogaroo_…

What can inner city residents do to repair our environment - Q from @PressClubAust - urban spaces are disproportionately important for biodiversity & threatened species; keeping this biodiversity in cities increases people's exposure to nature. So important and needs care!

Prof @martine_maron speaking @PressClubAust "We need to stop taking nature for granted"; and that money currently flowing towards the environment equivalent to throwing a cup of water on a raging fire @WentworthGroup report launch

Today: Professor Martine Maron & Professor Jamie Pittock, will Address the National Press Club of Australia on "Launch of Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists Landmark Report “Blueprint to Repair Australia’s Landscapes". Tune in from 12:30 pm AEDT on @abcnews

@MattHHolden @AcademicChatter @hormiga @DynamicEcology @McMadLab @UQ_News @UQ_CBCS @HugePossum Wowee that is a very thoughtful response, good on you. I actually counted how many potential students have contacted me so far this year - 49! A lot my replies to potential students are about the logistics & realities of applying through UQ, any chance you drafted that too?? 🙏

@AcademicChatter @hormiga @april_reside @john_m_dwyer @DynamicEcology @McMadLab @UQ_News @UQ_CBCS @HugePossum Feel free to send me feedback on my canned email reply, and let's talk about strategies about how to deal w these emails in a way that helps students out, often students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Do you get generic emails from prospective students who want to work with you? I reply to them w advice on how to contact a supervisor. I've semi-automated it so it's easy. Here's how mathemagicalconservation.wordpress.com/2019/10/04/how… @AcademicChatter @hormiga @april_reside @john_m_dwyer @DynamicEcology

@april_reside 100%! For those interested, global evidence also proves this point that small remaining patches of bush are often more valuable for biodiversity conservation: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Our new paper is out! Evaluating reintroduction trials for two extinct in the wild lizards …lpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ac…

This government promised big on nature but is not delivering - no strong laws and standards to protect, no resources to restore and recover. Hopeless.

Inspirational; but also a sad truth - we all need to work to save the remaining patches of vegetation around us. Left to the powers-that-be, it would be whittled away, 'offset' etc until very little is left. abc.net.au/news/2024-05-1…

@tilly64 @BeauMeney @tanya_plibersek We need to value threatened species habitat if we want them to not go extinct

Lee Point NT Once a bird sanctuary including Goudian Finch until @tanya_plibersek cleared it When is the federal election? #auspol so we can clear this govt out

@tilly64 @BeauMeney @tanya_plibersek 😭😭

This morning I lay witness to perhaps 20% of the entire Swift Parrot population. Thrill and despair in the same scene. To think they could be extinct within a decade. We need to do more. Their value is greater than that of harvested timber.

Well imagine if we actually listened to the experts ... who predicted this was going to happen ... When will we start taking environmental protection seriously, and start avoiding harm? abc.net.au/news/2024-05-0…

@CNZdenek Yeah not ideal

@april_reside The uq link goes to a generic uq site though 🤔🤷‍♀️

Our threatened reptile work made the media! wildlifeconservationlab.com/post/saving-qu… Saving Queensland's earless dragons (uq.edu.au)