Dr Melissa Snape ‘Connecting Nature, Connecting People: joining the dots for wildlife connectivity across Canberra’
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Thursday, 9 March 2023 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Mel, from ACT Government’s Conservation Research, will focus on urban habitat connectivity, and government initiative to incorporate biodiversity considerations more fully into our planning system.
Abstract
This talks presents outcomes and updates from an ACT Government project focused on urban habitat and connectivity – mapping key areas for protection and restoration to enable our ecosystems and species to survive, and introduces a new government initiative to incorporate biodiversity considerations more fully into our planning system.
Biography
Dr Melissa Snape is Senior Ecologist – Urban Biodiversity with EPSDD Conservation Research, ACT Government.
Mel has a long history of work on the ecology and management of the ACT’s grasslands, with particular focus on the impacts of herbivory, but has recently led the development of a new initiative on urban biodiversity in the ACT.
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