Is Conservation too Conservative? Prof.Hugh Possingham

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This has been sent through to us by Anna Bourke. It is part of the Northern Seminar Series supported by the Kedron Brook Catchment Branch of Wildlife Queensland and the Northern Catchments Network. Transition The Grove is an organisational member of the Kedron Brook Catchment Branch and recognises and fully supports the work they do.

Is Conservation Too Conservative? presented by Professor Hugh Possingham.

Professor Hugh Possingham FAA is an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists Director fo the ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions and the Director of The Ecology Centre at the University of Queensland. He completed Applied Mathematics at The University of Adelaide before attaining a Rhodes Scholarship to undertake a DPhil at Oxford; an ARC QEII Fellowship at the Australian National University followed. In 1999 and 2009 he was awarded the Eureka Prize for Environmental Research and subsequently has been honoured with a number of prestigious awards. He has a variety of broad public roles and is a member of the Queensland Smart State Council the Council of the Australian Academy of Science and NGO scientific advisory committees.

Come along to hear about why conservation may be too conservative to achieve its aims.

Wednesday 2nd February 2011. Downfall Creek Bushland Centre 815 Rode Rd McDowall

Finger food from 6:30pm and presentation 7pm to 8pm

Places limited so RSVP by 9am Wednesday 2 February to Anna Bourke. Phone 3407 0925 or email to anna.bourke@brisbane.qld.gov.au

We hope you will support this event as a member of Transition The Grove’s Environment Subgroup.

Regards

Anne Tennock

Subgroup Coordinator