My opinion piece on conservation issues in Australia’s Outback recently got published in the BIOSPHERE magazine! I first pondered Outback conservation challenges during the Conservation Science course I took in the last year of my degree, for which I wrote an opinion piece about the destructive effects of invasive species on marsupials such as the yellow-footed rock wallaby. Since I can’t resist the opportunity to make things look pretty and be more creative with scientific assignments, I made mine look like a magazine article – thanks to some great encouragement afterwards, telling me that my opinion piece could become a real magazine article, I decided to pursue this direction, and here it is!
You can read the opinion piece here.
How can we deliver conservation outcomes in areas that are out of sight and out of mind for so many? Recognising the importance of the communities that have always seen the value of the vast interior of Australia, and re-connecting them with their land, can empower people not only to identify environmental degradation, but also to actively engage in mitigating it.
