Associate Professor Carissa Klein will be presenting at the 2026 Wen Family Chair in Conservation Public Lecture on the 30 September, discussing the surprising realities behind what's on our plates and what the future holds for our oceans and seafood industries. Learn more about the event here:

🌟 Funding opportunity 🌟 The BOU Career Development Bursaries aim to support short-term research positions for early-career ornithologists. Successful proposals combine the development of skills useful for a future career in ornithology with a sound scientific research proposal. More:

Career development bursaries - British Ornithologists' Union

Closing date for applications (for 2027 awards): 30 October 2026 The BOU Career Development Bursaries aim to support short-term research positions for early-career ornithologists. Successful proposal...

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🔸 Job opportunity! 🔸 The Biodiversity Assessment Team in the Science division of Queensland Government are recruiting a Senior Spatial Analyst. Applications close 22 Sep 2026. For more: smartjobs.qld.gov.au/jobtools/jnc...

Senior Spatial Analyst | Flexible |

The Senior Spatial Analyst (PO3) is within the Biodiversity Assessment team, based in Dutton Park. The team is responsible for the delivery of key state-wide planning tools and assessments through pr...

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CBCS is offering a two-day short course on decision science, designed to introduce conservation and management researchers and professionals to the decision-science tools that will deliver better on-the-ground biodiversity outcomes. November 26-27, 2026, UQ. Learn more:

Decision science for conservation strategy

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If you are interested in better understanding the Australian Academy of Science and attending workshops on grant writing, register to attend Science at the Shine Dome 2026: aas-science-at-the-shine-dome-2026.eventsairsite.com/registration...

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Thank you to Dr Vicki Martin for presenting at our CBCS seminar this week. If you're interested in attending our next seminar, get in touch here: bit.ly/CBCSseminars

CBCSers Juli Li, Matthew S. Luskin, Robin L. Chazdon & Brooke Williams have recently published a paper on tropical forest restoration opportunities in Nature Ecology & Evolution. Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Variation in the costs and ecological benefits of tropical natural forest regeneration - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Large areas of the tropics could naturally regenerate into forest, yet how the costs and benefits of realizing this potential vary spatially remain unknown. This study fills that gap, revealing that n...

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More than 270 leading marine scientists from 84 research institutes have written to the environment minister, Murray Watt, urging stronger protections for marine ecosystems, as a once-in-a-decade review of marine parks gets under way. Learn more here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australia’s marine parks protect ‘places no one goes’ rather than fragile coastal zones, scientists say

Hundreds of experts write to environment minister calling for stronger protections for ‘unique and distinct’ marine ecosystems

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CBCSers Dr Lily Bentley and Dr Christina Skinner recently attended Dorrie Day, which brings together First Nations students, families, community members, employers, education providers, training organising and support services for a day of connection, opportunity and inspiration.

Next Tuesday, join UQ’s Social Change Lab for a free screening of the documentary 'The Plastic Country', and join Professor Winnifred Louis, director of the Lab, and other special guests for a Q&A after the film. Register: events.humanitix.com/the-plastic-...

The Plastic Country film screening

Free screening of the new film, The Plastic Country, as part of the Social Change Lab's 2026 Environment Festival

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The next round of Our Marine Parks Grants is now open for applications (closing 27 October 2026), with $5.6 million delivered to engage Australian marine park users – building their capacity to actively participate in managing Australian Marine Parks. australianmarineparks.gov.au/management/p...

Our Marine Parks Grants | Australian Marine Parks | Parks Australia

Our Marine Parks Grants support organisations to engage in the management of Australian Marine Parks.

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Thank you to Dr Ardian Tiono for presenting at our CBCS seminar last week. If you're interested in attending our next seminar, get in touch here: bit.ly/CBCSseminars

CBCS’s Associate Professor Diana Fisher recently co-authored a chapter of Kew’s State of the World’s Plants and Fungi report. Read more here: cbcs.centre.uq.edu.au/project/kews...

Kew's State of the World's Plants and Fungi report reveals how digital innovation is transforming biodiversity conservation

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A global team of researchers, including CBCS’s Associate Professor Chris Roelfsema, have created the first complete map of the world’s seagrass for clear shallow water, identifying important areas of seagrass as well as vulnerable regions: cbcs.centre.uq.edu.au/project/firs...

First complete global seagrass map reveals new opportunities for conservation

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"Thank you to Karann Putrevu for presenting at our CBCS seminar this week. If you're interested in attending our next seminar, get in touch here: bit.ly/CBCSseminars"

📣 Register for TERN's August #webinar, 'Who gets to tell the story? The challenges and opportunities for ensuring the science gets heard'. 📅 5 August 2026 Our three guest speakers will unpack the incentives, biases, and trade-offs behind nature #communication in 2026. 📝: buff.ly/rKgi9ZD

A huge congratulations to four CBCS PhD students who graduated from The University of Queensland this week! 🎓👏 We're proud to celebrate: Ama Wakwella, Rosa Mar Dominguez-Martinez, Vicki Bennion and Devin Rowell!

Associate Professor Carissa Klein is featured on Channel 9 News discussed the benefits of marine sanctuaries ahead of a once-in-a-decade review of its Commonwealth marine park management plans. Watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r9S...

Marine Conservation Leadership: Does Australia Walk the Talk?

The conservation of Australia's extraordinary marine biodiversity has been prominently championed over the past three decades by successive Federal and State Governments, who have consistently portra...

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Come along to our next CBCS Friends of Biodiversity event! 🌳 We are excited to invite you to celebrate National Tree Day with us on Sunday 26 July at Toohey Forest for a eucalypt walk and talk led by Professor Rod Fensham. Book your spot here: app4.vision6.com.au/forms/s/1,08...

As cities become more culturally diverse, our green spaces don’t always reflect the needs, values and experiences of the communities they serve. CBCS PhD candidate Samantha Wong-Topp explains why cultural diversity is key to creating more equitable urban nature: cbcs.centre.uq.edu.au/project/whos...

Whose nature counts in the city?

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This year CBCS launched its latest funding initiative, the CBCS Community Building Small Grant Scheme. Congratulations to the awardees: Dr Karlina Indraswari, Associate Professor Janni Leung, Nidhi Menon, Chrysanthe Frangos and Liana van Woesik! cbcs.centre.uq.edu.au/project/cbcs...

CBCS Community Building Small Grant Scheme 2026: Grantees Announced

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Thank you to Rowan Hilend for presenting at our CBCS seminar this week! If you're interested in attending our next seminar, get in touch here: bit.ly/CBCSseminars

Register now for our CBCS 2026 Winter R Workshops @ UQ if you're ready to take your R skills to the next level! Join us to elevate your R proficiency and become a data manipulation and presentation expert! For more: mathmarecol.github.io/RWorkshop/wi... Any questions: cbcs-workshops@uq.edu.au

CBCSer's Rachakonda Sreekar and James Watson led a research article titled "Disentangling the impacts of agriculture, logging, and extractive industries on Tapanuli orangutan habitat: A geo-ethnographic assessment" in Biological Conservation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Disentangling the impacts of agriculture, logging, and extractive industries on Tapanuli orangutan habitat: A geo-ethnographic assessment

Rapid land-use change across Southeast Asia has placed many narrowly distributed endemic species at imminent risk of extinction. In the Batang Toru Ke…

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CBCSer's Daniel Dunn and Lily Bentley have contributed to a collaborative piece in Nature Reviews Biodiversity discussing the integration of animal movement data into biodiversity indicators. Check out the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A call to integrate animal movement into biodiversity indicators - Nature Reviews Biodiversity

Biodiversity indicators are essential for tracking progress towards international biodiversity goals, but existing indicators have important shortcomings and are not based on animal movement data. Thi...

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Register now for our CBCS 2026 Winter R Workshops @ UQ if you're ready to take your R skills to the next level! Join us to elevate your R proficiency and become a data manipulation and presentation expert! For more: mathmarecol.github.io/RWorkshop/wi... Any questions: cbcs-workshops@uq.edu.au

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2026 state of the world's plants and fungi report just released by Kew science @rbgkew.bsky.social. I am one of 400 authors, with Aelys Humphries, discussing how digitised herbarium data can contribute to detecting extinction likelihood in plant species www.kew.org/science/stat...

Register now for our CBCS 2026 Winter R Workshops @ UQ if you're ready to take your R skills to the next level! Join us to elevate your R proficiency and become a data manipulation and presentation expert! For more: mathmarecol.github.io/RWorkshop/wi... Any questions: cbcs-workshops@uq.edu.au

Thank you to our HDR students Harrah Friedlander, Vanessa Lopez Corona, Samantha Wong-Topp, Tapash Alister, Ben Lucas and Liana van Woesik for presenting at our CBCS seminar this week for our very first CBCS Flashtalks event! If you're interested in attending our next seminar ➡️ bit.ly/CBCSseminars

Register now for our CBCS 2026 Winter R Workshops @ UQ if you're ready to take your R skills to the next level! Join us to elevate your R proficiency and become a data manipulation and presentation expert! For more: mathmarecol.github.io/RWorkshop/wi... Any questions: cbcs-workshops@uq.edu.au