Fiona Walsh

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Senior Ecologist & Team Coach Enviro-dynamics - Hobart, TAS

We need a senior ecologist! Maybe even a mainlander who wants to come and live i the best place in the world! Please pass it on to anyone you know
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And the drawing is a different plant…

Can’t get the fourth one.

Oh. Berries…

Capitals…. Too many.

At least he didn’t shake the guts out of it… and he gave it back without too much of a fight.

#yorkshireterrier #gardeningwithterriers #convolvulus

What a week!

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Ergh. Yes. Remember. Always room for you in Australia.

I think I need spaniels in my life.

Well this is a work trip. I’ll be working with some detection dogs this spring (secret career goal is to have a pack of botanist dogs). So my wonderfull boss ladies at Envrio-Dynamics thought it would be a good idea that I go and learn more about detection dogs from the people who know them the best

Waiting for the boat with @tasbiophiliac and Grommie to go to the big island for the Paul Bunker (@chironk9) detection dog workshop.
You might wonder what a botanist who has a pet Yorkshire terrier who has dodgy hips and anger management problem would possibly be doing at a detection dog workshop…

Two of my beautiful babies.

#furbaby #skinbaby

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Not sure if this link will work properly here, but today we collected seed from a new population of Pterostylis commutata. One of our critically endangered endemics!

And I can’t post it here cause it is too long! #orchidconservation

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I made some videos the other week whilst I was away seed collecting. Thought I would share them with you.

Leionema monantum fruit

James bagging some fruiting branches

View of Great Lake from the boulder field

Up near the Great Lake in boulder scree bagging Leionema montanum with James from the seed bank. So much fun so little money! And thankfully not as stupid hot as it was in Hobart.

Day one of my week off work when I go and work for free as a volunteer doing similar things I do at work!#conservation

MKJ Memorial Fund — Landscape Recovery Foundation The Melanie Jane Kelly Memorial Fund has been established in recognition of Mel Kelly’s significant contribution to conservation for over 25 years

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Att: Tasmanian women in conservation!

The MJK Memorial Fund honours the late Mel Kelly's contribution to conservation in Tasmania.

Applications are open!

The Fund will provide up to $5,000 in funding to support a trailblazing woman in conservation.

MKJ Memorial Fund — Landscape Recovery Foundation The Melanie Jane Kelly Memorial Fund has been established in recognition of Mel Kelly’s significant contribution to conservation for over 25 years

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First round open!

Environmental protection laws are stopping nature from being repaired Australia has big ambitions for restoring its degraded environment, but the very regulations meant to protect nature could be thwarting that progress.

"In Australia it's easier to get a permit to destroy nature than fix it". The problems pointed out here apply equally to the regulatory overheads around undertaking biodiversity research, IMHO. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

Yes. Yes you do. I’ll take you to all my favourite places!

These would have to be the best disguised fruit ever on the Leionema

Pterostylis pratensis. Only one lone plant. Need some more searching around this area I think.

Epilobium for days!

The Central Plateau is possibly my favourite place to botanise. Visited the Olearia tasmanica, checked on the Leionema montanum seed set for the seed bank, generally just poked around looking at plants. Oh and found a lone Pteostylis pratensis in a new location for it. I love plants.