My audio transcriptions

Hello and welcome. Come with me to a cold May night in 2025, in a Narooma car park on Yuin Country, when my phone rang and I heard five words that knocked the wind out of me: You can’t screen that her...

Hello and welcome. If you care about moving the needle for Australian biodiversity at scale, this is for you. After six intense months across Queensland’s reef catchments, the NT savannas, inland NSW,...

Hello and welcome. Today we’re talking about lethal control in Australia—when it’s justified, and how to do it ethically, legally, and transparently. This topic sparks strong emotions, and for good re...

Hello and welcome. If you care about protecting Australian wildlife and landscapes, this episode is for you. I want to talk about why so many well-meaning conservation projects fail, not because peopl...

Hello and welcome. Today we’re rethinking wildlife connectivity for Australia—so it works under heat, fire, drought, and shifting ranges. One green “corridor” line on a map won’t cut it anymore. Austr...

Hello and welcome. Today we’re diving into how AI and remote sensing are transforming landscape-scale conservation in Australia—and why the real breakthrough isn’t the tech itself, but designing monit...

Hello and welcome. Today we’re making something that feels huge—protecting Australia’s native wildlife—practical, doable, and high impact in your everyday life. Here’s the big idea straight from conse...

Hello and welcome to our deep dive on best practices for citizen science in Australia in 2025. If you’re launching or refining a species monitoring project, you’re stepping into work that’s both rewar...

Hello and welcome to the show. Today we’re getting practical and a little bit provocative: how to actually secure Australia’s wildlife in 2025 using tech and policy that work together. I’ve been diggi...

Hello and welcome. Today we’re going to dive into why saving Australia’s wildlife means rewriting the conservation playbook, not just tweaking it. If you’ve ever wondered why strategies that work in E...

Hello and welcome. Picture this: rainforest air thick as soup, licuala fan palms rattling overhead, and me whispering before I even realized I was speaking—backpacks in front, tree between you and her...

Hello and welcome. Today we’re tackling a deceptively simple question that can make or break a species: when you read a species profile, how do you know whether to launch straight into emergency recov...

Hello and welcome. Today we’re talking about how stories can reframe the way we see Australian animals—and why the best people in the game don’t just tell animal stories; they co-author place-based na...

Hello and welcome. Today we’re diving into how genomics and wildlife health screening can actually change outcomes for species in Australia. Here’s the rule of thumb: the only good test is the one tha...

Hello and welcome, and thanks for making time today. I want to talk about a moment every advocate in Australia knows too well. The campaign catches fire, media explodes, hundreds of thousands sign on—...

Hello and welcome. Come with me to first light on Wiradjuri Country, west of Wagga, where a simple “Not today” taught me more about real integration of Indigenous land management than any workshop. Pi...

Hello and welcome. Come with me to a hot Darwin afternoon in the build‑up, October 2023. I’m hosing bat guano off my boots behind a community hall when the principal leans in and whispers, “They want ...

Hello and welcome to the show. Today we’re talking about a shift that’s quietly rewriting how conservation gets done across Australia—and it’s moving faster than most teams are ready for. If you work ...

Hello and welcome. Today we’re talking cultural burning in Australia—and why, if you work in fire management, conservation, or community safety, integrating culture and risk planning from day one is t...

Hello and welcome. Today I want to share a simple but powerful shift I’m seeing across Australia’s most successful restoration projects. The best land managers don’t start with trees. They start with ...