Thylation Conservation Advisory Committee
Chris Johnson
Professor of Wildlife Conservation, University of Tasmania.
Chris Johnson is an ecologist with a more than 30-year career of research and teaching in conservation science and Australian wildlife. He also researches the environmental history of Australia, to understand the effects of long-term environmental changes and interactions with humans on the dynamics of fauna communities and species extinctions. He is an authority on the ecology and biology of marsupials, and has conducted field studies of threatened marsupials in many parts of Australia. He also studies the management of invasive species, where his research aims to use ecological understanding to find new ways to reduce impacts of invasive species on native biodiversity at landscape scales.
Chris was awarded the 2007 Whitley Medal of the Royal Zoological Society of NSW, the 2008 Troughton Medal of the Australian Mammal Society, the 2012 Australian Ecology research Award of the Ecological Society of Australia, and the 2013 Eureka Prize for Environmental Research.
Prof Chris Dickman
Prof Christopher Daniels
Dr Rachel Paltridge
Prof Sarah Legge
Lyall Grieve
Dr John Read
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What We Do
We use creativity to provide technology and tools to save threatened wildlife.
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Why We Do It
The need to think outside the square to achieve conservation outcomes for Australian wildlife is real.
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What we've done
Our tools are used to aid and monitor the reintroduction of culturally important and threatened mammal species.
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