Eco Voice Q & A: Chrissie Goldrick, Australian Geographic Society Chair.
To provide insights into threatened species, and the Australian Geographic Awards for Nature, Tim Langdon, publisher of Eco Voice, had the pleasure of facilitating a Q & A with Chrissie Goldrick, Australian Geographic Society Chair.
Australian Geographic Dean Reid, Chrissy Goldrick, Brad Walker
Q1. How important is it to shed light on threatened species in Australia?
There are many causes vying for our attention, so it can be hard to prioritise nature and obscure animal species over urgent human needs. However, we all need a healthy natural environment in order to thrive; and it’s this critical relationship between our well-being and that of nature that is at the heart of everything we stand for at Australian Geographic.
Q2. What are the Australian Geographic Awards for Nature?
We have launched a new funding program that aims to create a greater impact. Fewer individual grants than in the past, but bigger amounts of money. This way we will identify people and projects that are being effective already and have the potential to scale up. We will be looking at projects tackling the big issues like climate change impacts, biodiversity loss, feral invasive species, and pollution.
Q3. What are some examples of threatened species that you would like to highlight?
Without prejudicing the outcome of our competitive grant process, there are certain keystone native species whose survival is critical to many other species besides, and for whom landscape scale ecosystem restoration is the only way forward, which is the scale at which we all need to be working.
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