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March 18 2024 General Meeting – Interactions of Mammal Predators in a Mixed-use Coastal Ecosystem

Results of a project into interactions between dingoes, an apex predator, and 3 mesopredators – quolls, foxes and goannas

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February 2024 Meeting Birds on Farms

BirdLife Australia Project Coordinator, Margot Oorebeek. gave a very informative presentation about the citizen science project, Birds on Farms.

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October 16 2023 Meeting – Applying AI to Camera Imagery to Improve Wildlife Conservation and Management

Research into efforts to improve the efficiency of data analysis by ecologists using Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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September 18 2023 Meeting – Weeding together? The social science of weed management

Associate Professor Sonia Graham is a researcher at the University of Wollongong. For 15 years she has been studying how and why land managers and government agencies work together to manage weeds, and examining the benefits and costs of doing so.  It was to an enthusiastic audience that Sonia presented her informative talk on the […]

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August 21 2023 Meeting – Kelp Forests

Dr. Aaron Eger (an OFF research grant recipient), Founder and Program Director of the Kelp Forest Alliance (KFA), updated us on the conservation of these important marine habitats.

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July 17 2023 Meeting: Flora and natural aspects of East Arnhem Land

Note that this month’s topic and speaker changed from that advertised in the annual program. Well-travelled member Tony Porritt delivered a slideshow presentation of the flora and some natural aspects of East Arnhem Land. This is a part of Australia seldom visited by tourists, stretching along the west side of the Gulf of Carpentaria. It […]

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19 June 2023 Meeting: Platypus at Mulgoa Creek

Platypus populations sustainability in the Sydney Basin.