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Fiona Walsh

@gumboots.bsky.social
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Botanist / ecologist at Enviro-dynamics. When not at work botanising, I spend my spare time botanising, jiu jitsuing, botanising, knitting, botanising, Muay Thai, botanising, and a million other sides projects involving plants…

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Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
For more info - linktr.ee/tasorchidcon... #orchidconservation #orchids #tasmanianorchids
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Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
We 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...
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Senior Ecologist & Team Coach
Enviro-dynamics - Hobart, TAS
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Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
At least he didn’t shake the guts out of it… and he gave it back without too much of a fight. #yorkshireterrier #gardeningwithterriers #convolvulus
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Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
What a week! www.facebook.com/share/16BqeB...
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Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I think I need spaniels in my life.
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Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Waiting 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…
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Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Two of my beautiful babies. #furbaby #skinbaby
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Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Not 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...
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Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I made some videos the other week whilst I was away seed collecting. Thought I would share them with you.
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Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Up 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
Leionema monantum fruitJames bagging some fruiting branchesView of Great Lake from the boulder field
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Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
landscaperecovery.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.
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MKJ Memorial Fund — Landscape Recovery Foundation
The Melanie Jane Kelly Memorial Fund has been established in recognition of Mel Kelly’s significant contribution to conservation for over 25 years
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Ben 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...
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Environmental protection laws are stopping nature from being repaired
Australia has big ambitions for restoring its degraded environment, but the very regulations meant to protect nature could be thwarting that progress.
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Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
The 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.
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Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Getting 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 ❤️
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Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
I love this little fella so much. I love him as much as plants.
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Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Lesson learnt. Grassy areas in summer plus puppies equals a nightmare for us all….
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Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Sheep 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
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Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Perfect 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
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Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Just 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.
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