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Future of an Icon: K’gari-Fraser Island, Climate Change and Social Expectations

Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, Special Issue, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2015. http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tjem20/current#.VaxHp_mTznE

One of the papers in this Special Issue has been short-listed and two additional papers were longlisted for the annual best paper award. [Angela Wardell-Johnson, Guest Editor.]

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Research into Human-Dingo Interactions

A small, multidisciplinary project in the disciplines of environmental humanities, environmental sociology, communication, geography and geo-spatial science has just been funded by DSTIA.

The project, entitled ‘The Iconic Dingo: valuing their future on K’gari-Fraser Island’ aims to interpret existing K’Gari-Fraser Island visitor and human-dingo interaction data provided by QPWS partners as a guide to gathering new data on the way various stakeholders and interests value and expect to interact with dingoes. (more…)

Bear study highlights public education and physical barriers to avoid conflict

A recent study lead by Ozgun Emre Can from Oxford University may provide some invaluable lessons on reducing dingo-human conflict on Fraser Island.  The study which focuses on bears suggests a number of interventions that can be used by land managers.

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