The quiet beauty of the Brigalow
After two days tracking down Bridled Nailtail Wallabies and Koalas, it's clear that this entire ecosystem is as precious as the species it shelters.
A number of Bush Heritage staff have rolled into Meanjin/Brisbane, to be at this week’s International Congress for Conservation Biology 2025 (ICCB). At a time when nature needs us most, our global community is coming together on Jagera and Turrbal Country in Queensland, to share, listen and create solutions to shape a more resilient future for Earth and everything that depends on it.
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Bush Heritage staff live from the ICCB Conference! Location: Meanjin/Brisbane, Jagera and Turrbal Country, Queensland
The forum is the largest global meeting of conservation professionals, knowledge holders, researchers, scientists, Traditional Custodians, practitioners and students, with more than 1,200 delegates expected to attend.
We’re excited to be hosting three Symposia and 18 presentations, where we will share insights from a broad range of our conservation activities, including:
- landscape rehydration practice,
- functional connectivity,
- spatial planning,
- conservation planning,
- healthy Country and co-designed land management with Traditional Custodians,
- species conservation,
- remote sensing,
- protecting Indigenous and Cultural Intellectual Property,
- drivers of rewilding, and
- gender equity in conservation not-for-profits.
– Rachel Lowry, Chief Executive Officer“We’re thrilled to be listening, sharing, and learning from the global conservation community. I take my hat off to all those contributing to the forum.”
Sessions to find us at:
- Open Source Geospatial Tools for Conservation under Climate Change - a Koala Case Study
- Mitch Rudge - Improve conservation project planning and monitoring with Conservation Standards theories of change
- Clair Dougherty and Bridget Mattingley - Early Career Researcher/Student Day
- Sponsor and Mentor Dr Rebecca Spindler - "Wurreka Galkangu'' A Shared Strategic Landscape Plan by Bush Heritage Australia and DJAARA (Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation)
- Tegan Hibberson, Bambi Lees, DJAARA Partners - Novel and Culturally Relevant Climate Adaptation Strategies for Integrating Cultural and Ecological Values in Australia
- Bina Phuyal, Sophie Holt, Joanne Griffin, Bec Spindler, Richard Kingsford, Hedley Grantham - Fifty Years in Retrospective: Assessing Research Investments and Identifying Future Priorities in Carnivore Science in Nepal (1974–2025)
- Anu Singh - Camera Traps vs Passive Acoustic Recorders: Why Not Both?
- Daniella Teixeira - Collaboration at scale builds connectivity
- Dr Rebecca Spindler and Janice Chanson - Spatial Prioritisation of Australian Landscapes - Toward Closing the Gap Between Research and Implementation
- Lucy Rose - Bats as indicators of restoration processes: a case study from the Fitz-Stirling region in Western Australia
- Angela Recalde Salas, Angela Sanders and Michelle Hall - Improvements and Innovations in the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation, v. 5.0
- Annette Stewart - An overview of Participatory, Integrated, and Biodiversity-Inclusive Spatial Planning and Target 1 under the Convention on Biological Diversity
- Hedley Grantham - Policy, Economic and Social Drivers of Rewilding
- Ian McConnel - Embedding Healthy Country Planning in Conservation Planning
- Joanne Griffin, Clair Dougherty, Sophie Holt - Integrated Knowledge Systems for Future Conservation
- John Pender, Oliver Costello, Joanne Griffin, Alejandro Arias - SCB Oceania Region Business Meeting
- Courtney Melton - Science-based landscape rehydration for climate resilience
- Tegan Hibberson, Joel Fitzgerald. Dan Nugent - How are large conservation organizations tackling inequity: what is working for gender equity across the sector, and what needs to change?
- Dr Rebecca Spindler
