“It’s an ongoing battle but I do think a lot of these major environmental problems are not really about lack of knowledge.”

In the next episode of our new podcast, Ecology Matters, meet river ecologist and conservation biologist Professor Kingsford.

Professor Kingsford is the Director of the Centre for Ecosystem Science at the University of New South Wales Sydney. For over 35 years he has led the Eastern Australian Waterbird Survey, which covers about a third of the continent, and is one of the longest and most extensive surveys of ecosystems in the world. For the past six years, he has led the Wild Deserts project, which is restoring a desert ecosystem by reintroducing seven locally-extinct mammals into Sturt National Park in north-western NSW.

Professor Kingsford’s work has been awarded both Eureka and Banksia Awards and earned him Fellowships of both the Royal Society of NSW and the Australian Zoological Society. In 2021 he was awarded the ESA Gold Medal for his outstanding contributions to ecology.

Over the next twelve weeks, meet ecologists from around Australia, discover more about their work, what their hopes and fears are for the future of our natural world, and why they think that ecology matters. We’ll be releasing one episode each week until September!

Find Ecology Matters wherever you get your podcasts or play it directly from our website.