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Chief Councillor

Dr Jack Pascoe

University of Melbourne

Expertise:

  • Wildlife ecology
  • Fire ecology
  • Biocultural landscapes
  • Culturally significant species
  • Traditional ecological knowledge
  • Cultural burning

Affiliations:

  • The University of Melbourne
  • The Biodiversity Council
  • The Conservation Ecology Centre

Jack is a Yuin man living on Gadabanut Country and the Biodiversity Council's Co-Chief Councillor.

Jack is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne in the School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences where he focuses on understanding and managing biocultural landscapes.

Jack is an honorary Strategic Advisor to the Conservation Ecology Centre and for the past decade has led their adaptive management and applied ecological research program across the Otway region.

Jack currently sits on scientific reference groups for Zoos Victoria and the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (formerly DELWP) and was a member of the Expert Panel which recently reviewed the Victorian Wildlife Act 1975.

Jack completed a PhD at the University of Western Sydney where he studied the predators of the Blue Mountains.

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Acknowledgements

The Biodiversity Council acknowledges the First Peoples of the lands and waters of Australia, and pays respect to their Elders, past, present and future and expresses gratitude for long and ongoing custodianship of Country.

The Biodiversity Council is an independent expert group founded by 11 Australian universities to promote evidence-based solutions to Australia’s biodiversity crisis. It is hosted by The University of Melbourne. It receives funding from 11 university partners and The Ian Potter Foundation, The Ross Trust, Trawalla Foundation, The Rendere Trust, Isaacson Davis Foundation, Coniston Charitable Trust and Angela Whitbread.



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