Science at Melbourne Lecture: Biodiversity loss - a global crisis

While climate change is considered the great crisis of our age, the rapid loss of species and the rapid degradation of ecosystems may be as great a threat to humanity as a warming planet. So why is there a biodiversity crisis? Is there anything we can do about it? What else do we risk losing if we continue to lose biodiversity?

Our panel of experts - Amanda Martin OAM, Chief Executive Officer and Secretary to the Board, Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network (AEGN); Professor Brendan Wintle, academic expert in conservation science; Dr Jenny Gray, CEO Zoos Victoria; and Dr Jack Pascoe, Conservation and Research Manager, Conservation Ecology Centre - represents a range of perspectives of Biodiversity and will discuss the pending crisis through the lens of Bioscience, Indigenous culture and history, and zoology.

Recorded at the University of Melbourne on 7 June 2022.

[mushlikestoeat]

Amanda was a delight as the moderator. Enjoyed professor brendan's session as well. Were there any pictures shown above the panel? If there were, perhaps the cameraman couldve quickly shown us online viewera some of those seaslugs.