Sunshine Coast residents have a great interest in the preservation of the environment. Therefore, citizen science platforms continue to grow in number, application, and accuracy. Coupled with increasingly popular citizen events (such as BioBlitzs) and nature-based celebrations (such as the Sunshine Coast Wildflower Festival), these platforms are delivering a much more accurate picture of the biodiversity of our remaining wild places. Increasingly, they are yielding new information on some of our rarest plant species, often in areas right on our doorstep. In his presentation at Friday Environment Forum on October 24th, Paul Donatiu will highlight how citizen science is improving our ability to conserve threatened plants using a suite of flora examples.
Paul manages the Queensland Threatened Plant Network, a relatively new organisation focussed on best practice conservation for listed plant species. He has worked for WWF, Greening Australia, Queensland National Parks Association, Griffith University and Healthy Land and Water. Apart from species recovery, Paul’s fields of interest include ecological restoration, fire ecology, landscape ecology, and the management and preservation of cultural landscapes. Paul has also completed a Churchill Fellowship that examined how five national agencies in Europe, USA and South Africa were dealing with climate impacts on their protected areas.
Everyone is welcome to Friday Environment Forum on October 24th at the Noosa Parks Association Environment Centre, 5 Wallace Drive, Noosaville which starts at 10:30am with morning tea available from 10-10.25am. Entry is $5 by ‘tap & go’ at the door which includes morning tea/coffee.
Join the bird observers at 8.30am in the carpark for interpretive birding.
