"Written in an informal and engaging style, Saving the Earth as a Career is an ideal resource for students and professionals pursuing a career in conservation. The book explores the major skills needed to become an effective conservation professional by offering useful advice on a range of topics. Chapters include: Is this the right career for you? Designing a program of study Designing and executing a project Attending confere ..."
"Written in an informal and engaging style, Saving the Earth as a Career is an ideal resource for students and professionals pursuing a career in conservation. Written in an informal and engaging style this book introduces all the important steps to becoming a conservation professional, from making the right career choice to finding a position in the field Provides helpful advice to students about selecting a course, conduct ..."
"Dr Black: Pat: Terry: Pat: Terry: Pat: Terry: Pat: Terry: Pat: Terry: “We are going to
be seeing a lot of each other over the next 2 years; so please, just call me Terry.
We can either meet whenever you want to set up a meeting, or we can have a ..."
"The distinctive relationships between landscape change, habitat fragmentation, and biodiversity conservation are highlighted in this original and useful guide to the theory and practice of ecological landscape design. Using original, ecologically based landscape design principles, the text underscores current thinking in landscape management and conservation. It offers a blend of theoretical and practical information that is illustrated ..."
Saving the Earth As a Career Advice on Becoming a Conservation Professional by David B. Lindenmayer 224 Pages, Published 2016 by John Wiley & Sons ISBN-13: 978-1-119-18481-2, ISBN: 1-119-18481-9
"... Short anecdotes that appear here in italics: Darron Collins, Annika Felton,
David Johns, Andrew Knight, Ewan Macdonald, Rebecca Montague-Drake, Mark
Anderson, Marianne Asmussen, Jacolyn Bailey, Guy Baldassare, Andrew
Balmford, ..."
"National Library of Australia CataloguinginPublication entry Indicators and
surrogates of biodiversity and environmental change/editors: David Lindenmayer
, Philip Barton and Jennifer Pierson. 9781486304097 (paperback)
9781486304103 (epdf) 9781486304110 (epub) Includes bibliographical
references and index. Environmental indicators. Environmental monitoring.
Environmental management. Biodiversity conservation. Lindenmayer, David,
ed ..."
"Millions of hectares of temperate woodland and billions of trees have been cleared from Australia’s agricultural landscapes. This has allowed land to be developed for cropping and grazing livestock but has also had significant environmental impacts, including erosion, salinity and loss of native plant and animal species.Restoring Farm Woodlands for Wildlife focuses on why restoration is important and describes best practices approaches ..."
"In particular, I acknowledge personnel from state and Commonwealth
government agencies (especially those from threatened species units and parks
and wildlife districts), local governments and regional natural resource
management. Others include World Wide Fund for Nature, BirdLife Australia,
Recovery Team members, Forest Practices Authority, Bruny Island Environment
Network, research scientists at the Australian National University ..."
"Some culturally significant sites that are publically accessible include the
Finchley engravings in Yengo National Park and Bulgandry engravings in
Brisbane Water National Park. The image pictured above shows an engraving of
a small macropod etched ... In north-east Victoria, one art site depicts an image of
a Thylacine, a species that is considered to have become extinct on the mainland
~2000 years ago. Some of the most culturally ..."
"Funding and other support has come from the South West Conservation Council,
Shire of Augusta-Margaret River, Lower Blackwood Land Conservation District
Committee, National Threatened Species Network, South West Catchment
Council, WA State Natural Resource Management, Perth Zoo and the
Department of Parks and Wildlife. Scientific input and advice has been driven by
academic researchers such as Don Driscoll, Simon Conroy, Grant Ward ..."
"Thanks to the many colleagues who assessed monitoring adequacy for
individual or multiple species: Martin Asmus, Steve Beatty, Chris Bice, Steve
Brooks, Gavin Butler, Rhys Coleman, Brendan Ebner, Iain Ellis, Rob Freeman,
Scott Hardie, Bill Humphreys, Adam Kerezsy, Peter Kind, John Koehn, Wayne
Koster, Peter Kyne, Jarod Lyon, Dave Morgan, Luke Pearce, Tarmo Raadik, Zeb
Tonkin, Daniel Stoessel and Peter Unmack. Thanks to the ASFB Thr ..."
"PLoS One 9, e107126. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0107126 Keith H, Lindenmayer
DB, Mackey BG, Blair D, Carter L, ... Available at: https://docs.education.gov.au/
system/files/doc/other/ncris_project_reviews_final_report_web.pdf Krebs ... Lamb
EG, Bayne E, Holloway G, Schieck J, Soutin S, Herbers J, Haughland DL (2009)
Indices for monitoring biodiversity change: are some more effective than others."
"tools others field in are are some well still of established being these explored
technologies and keep (e.g. improving mesh (e.g. biosensing networks (e.g. of
radio-tracking networks). sensors). Biomedical Australia collars), is while leading
the technologies DNA Finally, barcoding, advances are also environmental in
computing being incorporated and DNA processing analysis into the and
algorithms conservation next generation furth ..."