I’m a fan of celebrating conservation success stories and sharing conservation optimism. In fact I’ve written about this before. Today, I want to share some wonderful teaching resources, that also highlight some reasons for hope in wildlife conservation.
A little while back, I asked twitter to recommend short videos about mammal conservation in Australia, to include in lectures I was preparing. I wanted to illustrate some of the things that agencies need to think about when planning management strategies, and share some real examples of conservation actions with the students. Also, including videos of cute animals can make for a much more engaging lecture!
Thanks to some lovely people I was sent links to a lot of interesting material. At the time I said I’d curate the list somewhere to make it easier for people to browse… and here it is. Please scroll down for links to a few videos about wildlife conservation, or with footage of threatened species. At this stage there is a strong focus on Australian mammals, but I’ll try to add links to other resources as I come across them. Feel free to share relevant resources with me… I know there are loads of other videos out there!
Fenced reserves for conservation
- A short history of Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary
- Arid Recovery – Behind the scenes – The Fence
- Australia completes world’s largest cat-proof fence to protect endangered marsupials
- Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary
Targeted conservation programs for threatened species- including translocations and reintroductions
- Saving Warru (black-footed rock-wallaby) – this film is a great way to spend an hour: spectacular footage and a great example of hope in conservation
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby (WWF)
- Eastern Barred Bandicoots released on Churchill Island
- Red-tailed Phascogales released at the Australian Wildlife Conservancy’s Mt Gibson Sanctuary
- Red-tailed Phascogale re-introduction by Bush Heritage
- Boodies (burrowing bettongs) reintroduced to Matuwa
- Reintroduction of the banded hare-wallaby to the Australian mainland
- The greater bilby reintroduced to south-western Australia (Australian Wildlife Conservancy)
- Greater stick-nest rats reintroduced at Arid Recovery
- Greater stick-nest rat translocations by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy
- Release of captive-bred Baw Baw frogs into the wild
- Conservation of the red-finned blue-eye – one of the world’s rarest fish
Conservation dogs
- Frog detection dogs at Mt Baw Baw
- DOC’s Conservation dog programme (New Zealand)
- Maya the koala scat detection dog (WWF-Australia)
Conservation on Islands
(with thanks to Michael Johnston for suggestions!)
- Million Dollar Mouse – Antipodes Island
- Dirk Hartog Island: back to 1616
- Eradication of feral cats on Dirk Hartog Island
- Tasman Island Natural Values Restoration Project – removing feral cats
Camera trap footage
- Big Desert 2013 – footage from Euan Ritchie’s research
- Animals of the Big Desert – footage from Billy Geary, Euan Ritchie and Dale Nimmo’s research
- Eastern quoll babies at Mulligans Flat
Just great #SciComm
- And finally a shout out to my good friends Alex and Jane, who have some great photos, poems and videos about Aussie wildlife and conservation at their Faunaverse site – entertainment for kids of all ages 🙂
Edited 12/07/2019 to add some additional links
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