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As my readers will know, Australia has an awful environmental history of deforestation, mammal extinctions, invasive species and wretched water management. An outsider could easily argue, however, that most ecological societies are archaic bastions of a former time when ecology was more a theoretical endeavour for academic circles, with little of practical use in today’s society. I’d agree that many components of these societies still hold onto elements of this sentiment, but it’s fast becoming clear that ecological societies can play an immensely important role in shaping their countries’ environmental policy. Hot Topics is […] Too few of our major Commonwealth environmental policies are based on nothing more than politicking, so it is high time that the very body representing the ecological experts in our country made the effort to extend its expertise into the policy arena. To Mr Holmes, the highest paid public servant in SA and CEO of DEWNR, a round of applause Sir. Brave new green world: biodiversity’s response to Australia’s carbon economy », […] blogged about a similar venture coordinated by the Ecological Society of Australia – their Hot Topics in Ecology. I therefore (quite unofficially and belatedly) introduce the ESA’s ‘Hot Topics in Ecology‘ which is a blatant attempt to get the Canberra politicos to realise that our ecological health is everything on which our prosperity is based. - James Borrell Within FOP I could not find any other member, including David Mitchell who would stand publicly up to DEWNR and demand change. Litigation avoidance perhaps?
- Biologie Bilingual ( Log Out / Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Eventually I became sick and tired of DEWNR’s apathy and incompetence and left Friends Of Parks (FOP). - Rivers of carbon For example, the British Ecological Society has an active and powerful Science Policy Team, and the Ecological Society of America has a wide array of policy endeavours that aim to convince the environmental Luddites in Washington that they’re pissing away their rich environmental wealth. Check out the first two ‘Hot Topics’ here (soon to be hosted on its very own website, I’m told). 1Not strictly ‘new’ – the first one went live in June 2012, « Crying ‘wolf’ overlooks the foxes: challenging ‘planetary tipping points’
If you want to see how a park should be managed, check out how Bush Heritage and the Australian Nature Conservancy manage their reserves. Perhaps the utter absence of participation in weed and feral animal control in conservation parks of the Mount Lofty Ranges by the South Australian government’s Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR)?
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Have a good idea for a Hot Topic? Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Hot Topics in Ecology are evidence-based syntheses of topics that are relevant to environmental policy development, land management and to broadening the community's ecological knowledge base. The conferences are usually a lot of fun (although I’ve generally found the Ecological Society of America conferences are too huge and unwieldy to be terribly beneficial), the talks are usually pretty good, and the social programmes tend to demonstrate just how human we scientists can be (I’ll let you read into that what you want). Change ). Each Hot Topic consists of a one-page summary and a database of peer-reviewed literature. Just a short one today to highlight a new1 endeavour by the Ecological Society of Australia. As I write this sheep are free to roam into the adjacent park despite my five years of complaints on this matter. DEWNR. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! It is an official publication of the Ecological Society of America, the largest community of professional ecologists and a trusted source of ecological knowledge. Yes, there’s a lot more we can do, and I’m sure that as the Hot Topics get traction, we’ll see different policy offshoots that really do make our country more ecologically resilient. Search. By degrading….... Read more, 100 Australian species are listed as extinct since European colonisation Further extinctions are predicted in….... Read more, Hatchling marine turtles are vulnerable to light pollution as it disrupts the natural light cues….... Read more, EMPLOYMENT | STUDENT | VOLUNTEER PROFESSIONAL | TRAINING | FUNDING, PO Box 2187, Windsor QLD 4030 T 0409 279 068 executiveofficer@ecolsoc.org.au, © 2020 Ecological Society of Australia | Copyright | Privacy, 2020 ‘Ecology in Action’ Photo Competition.
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