Conservation biology, wildlife science, threatened species, climate change, ecology, policy, birds, bats, reptiles. Lecturer @UQ_CBCS
Brisbane, Australia
Joined July 2017
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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-re…
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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-re…
ALT Koala pausing while climbing up a tree. Text over the image says "Fully recovering Australia’s threatened species would cost 25% of GDP". A quote from the article reads "This, obviously, is infeasible. But it shows the extent of 200 years of human impacts on nature in Australia ... and gives us a way to cost and plan for species recovery at local or regional levels."
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/…
Join me @UQscience @UQ_CBCS to work on threatened reptile conservation - domestic scholarship round closes 8 Sept 2024 so be in touch before then! 🦎🐍
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Thanks @CNZdenek for the tile 😀🐍🦎
April Reside 🦇 retweeted
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.a…
PhD projects available on threatened reptiles @UQscience Please be in touch if interested!
wildlifeconservationlab.com/…
ALT Condamine earless dragons approve of this research
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
April Reside 🦇 retweeted
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
April Reside 🦇 retweeted
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/pnas.18…
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Our new paper is out! Evaluating reintroduction trials for two extinct in the wild lizards
zslpublications.onlinelibrar…
April Reside 🦇 retweeted
This government promised big on nature but is not delivering - no strong laws and standards to protect, no resources to restore and recover. Hopeless.
Disappointing on so many levels. There is still a massive chasm between what is needed to deliver the commitments made by the @AlboMP Government to end extinctions and be nature-positive and the peanuts in the budget. 🥜🥜🥜
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/2024-05-13/t…
April Reside 🦇 retweeted
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/2024-05-02/a…
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This is a heartbreaking day for so many across the country who care for nature, and especially for the local people and Traditional Owners who have fought so hard to protect this amazing place, and its wildlife much of which will now die. So much for ‘nature positive’.
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Our threatened reptile work made the media!
wildlifeconservationlab.com/…
Saving Queensland's earless dragons (uq.edu.au)
April Reside 🦇 retweeted
It was so nice to finally present my honours research at #AusBatSoc2024 after workshopping the idea at the 2022 conference!
Do artificial light have species-specific effects based on foraging activity? @Rani_S_Davis says yes! Especially for slow close-edge foragers #AusBatSoc2024
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#BREAKING: Toondah Harbour has been saved! 🎉
We are thrilled to tell you that Toondah Harbour has finally been saved after Walker Corp withdrew their real-estate proposal today.
This is a huge win for the environment and the birds that call Toondah home!
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The Call for Abstracts for ESA 2024 is now open!
ESA 2024 is shaping up to be HUGE with over 40 Symposia to choose from. Abstract submissions are open for any of these symposia and the Open Forum.
esa2024.org.au/
Submissions close Friday 12 July.
📷️: Kristian Bell
