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Tracking collars fitted to ‘high-risk’ Fraser Island dingoes in an effort to monitor their movements
The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service has commenced a trial to track dingoes (that have shown aggressive behaviour) through the use of tracking and high visibility collars. (more…)
AJEM Special Issue, ‘Future of an icon’, now available!
In our last FINIA newsletter, we introduced a new paper on Fraser Island, published by the Australian Journal of Environmental Management (AJEM). This paper was one of eight comprising a then-forthcoming special issue: Future of an Icon: K’gari-Fraser Island, climate change and social expectations. This special issue is now out! (more…)
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.]
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…)
Reframing Values for Fraser Island’s Future
In a new paper just published by the Australasian Journal of Environmental Management (AJEM), Grant Wardell-Johnson, David Shoeman, Thomas Schlacher, Angela Wardell-Johnson, Mike Weston, Yoko Shimuzu and Gabriel Conroy examine the future of Fraser Island as an icon. (more…)
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