Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 16/09/2025For more info - linktr.ee/tasorchidcon... #orchidconservation #orchids #tasmanianorchids 030
Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 15/08/2025We need a senior ecologist! Maybe even a mainlander who wants to come and live i the best place in the world! Please pass it on to anyone you know nrmjobs.com.au/jobs/2025/20...nrmjobs.com.auSenior Ecologist & Team CoachEnviro-dynamics - Hobart, TAS 010
Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 13/03/2025At least he didn’t shake the guts out of it… and he gave it back without too much of a fight. #yorkshireterrier #gardeningwithterriers #convolvulus 010
Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 11/03/2025What a week! www.facebook.com/share/16BqeB...facebook.comRedirecting... 000
Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Waiting for the boat with @tasbiophiliac and Grommie to go to the big island for the Paul Bunker (@chironk9) detection dog workshop. You might wonder what a botanist who has a pet Yorkshire terrier who has dodgy hips and anger management problem would possibly be doing at a detection dog workshop… 120
Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Not sure if this link will work properly here, but today we collected seed from a new population of Pterostylis commutata. One of our critically endangered endemics! And I can’t post it here cause it is too long! #orchidconservation www.facebook.com/share/v/1Gux...facebook.comRedirecting... 110
Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 14/02/2025I made some videos the other week whilst I was away seed collecting. Thought I would share them with you. 020
Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Up near the Great Lake in boulder scree bagging Leionema montanum with James from the seed bank. So much fun so little money! And thankfully not as stupid hot as it was in Hobart. Day one of my week off work when I go and work for free as a volunteer doing similar things I do at work!#conservation 030
Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 14/01/2025landscaperecovery.com.au/mjk-memorial... Att: Tasmanian women in conservation! The MJK Memorial Fund honours the late Mel Kelly's contribution to conservation in Tasmania. Applications are open! The Fund will provide up to $5,000 in funding to support a trailblazing woman in conservation.landscaperecovery.com.auMKJ Memorial Fund — Landscape Recovery FoundationThe Melanie Jane Kelly Memorial Fund has been established in recognition of Mel Kelly’s significant contribution to conservation for over 25 years 021
Reposted by Fiona WalshBen Phillips @benflips.bsky.social · 09/01/2025"In Australia it's easier to get a permit to destroy nature than fix it". The problems pointed out here apply equally to the regulatory overheads around undertaking biodiversity research, IMHO. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...abc.net.auEnvironmental protection laws are stopping nature from being repairedAustralia has big ambitions for restoring its degraded environment, but the very regulations meant to protect nature could be thwarting that progress. 14319
Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 04/01/2025The Central Plateau is possibly my favourite place to botanise. Visited the Olearia tasmanica, checked on the Leionema montanum seed set for the seed bank, generally just poked around looking at plants. Oh and found a lone Pteostylis pratensis in a new location for it. I love plants. 120
Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Getting Rigby used to sitting in the back of the Ute so he can come with me when I have field work and I’m not going far from the car. This used to be Mel’s Ute, and this was Fonzies spot. Mel would be laughing her head off that there is a yorkie in here as opposed to a big black Shepard ❤️ 110
Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 26/12/2024I love this little fella so much. I love him as much as plants. 130
Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Lesson learnt. Grassy areas in summer plus puppies equals a nightmare for us all…. 000
Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 22/12/2024www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comSheep farmers are helping save Tasmania’s native grasslands: ‘We’re better off working together’Critically endangered grasslands in Tasmania’s Midlands were being destroyed by agriculture, but an innovative partnership has protected the remaining ecosystem – and local farmers’ profits 020
Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Perfect last day of work for the year. I caged some Pterostylis commutata after Magali hand pollinated them and found way more than I found two days ago! #tasorchidconservation #ilovemyjob 020
Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Just heading home from a week at @ecolsocaus.bsky.social conference #ESAus2024. Had a small burnout the week before and wasn’t feeling the best but I went ok because the ESA crowd are bloody amazing. Thanks to everyone who I hung out with and taught me great things. 060