Queensland Women Environmental Champions

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  • * Please note that Queensland Women Environmental Champions is about to expire as an RSS distributed podcast by the end of May 2024.It should remain available on YouTube for the foreseeable future.On that platform either search for Queensland Women Environmental Champions or HOPEINCFILMS - the dedicated channel of the not for profit organisation HOPE INC. AUSTRALIA.
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  • Environmental art’s vital contribution to protect nature and climate stability

    Environmental art’s vital contribution to protect nature and climate stability
    Jan 18 2024
    GUEST: Jill Sampson - visual artist, Bimblebox Art Project coordinator and the curator of Bimblebox 153 Birds. Jill completed a Fine Arts degree at Queensland College of Art in 2019 extending her previous study at the Sydney Gallery School. She was awarded the 2001 Pata Paris residency, France by Daniel and Anne Pata and the Sydney Gallery School. Jill was a keynote speaker at the Eco Arts Australis 3rd National Conference, Wollongong 2019 Introduction to this episode : The important capacity of environmental art to engage audiences powerfully with environmental challenges and potential solutions is still being researched. It is already clear however that environmental art’s ability to engage audiences on an emotional as well as purely cognitive level; to be able to reach the heart as well as the head on environmental problems is part of its power. My guest in this podcast episode, Jill Sampson has developed great expertise in helping harness environmental artistic power to persuade audiences about the dire threats to nature posed by fossil fuel expansion. Art has the capacity to do this in a non-threatening and inspiring manner and in ways which can help develop a motivation in audience members to want to care for and protect the natural world. Helping facilitate such work has been a cornerstone of Jill’s important environmental art advocacy achievements over more than ten years. A central focus for this interview is based upon Jill’s extended efforts from 2012 onward in helping develop and co-ordinate the ground breaking Bimblebox Art and Bimblebox 153 Birds Projects – along with their influential art, science and nature intersections, artist camps and touring exhibitions. INTERVIEW TALKING POINTS - with approximate time elapsed in mins. Guest foreshadow comment - 0.00Generic podcast series introduction. – 0.30Current episode and introduction to Jill’s work – 2.17How did your passion for the environment start? – 4.10Who inspired or mentored you in your work? – 8.27How did you get involved with environmental conservation to begin with? – 17.12When did you first realise the impact of your work on restoring the environment? – 22.00The Bimblebox Art Project and guest’s environmental art achievements – 30.14What are some of the challenges you have faced and how did you respond? – 37.36How has your work influenced you to keep doing what you do? – 52.24Acknowledging the important network of collaborators helping enable Jill’s work – 57.50What are you working on currently and what does the work future hold ? – 1.05.20Guest short take home message - 1.11.00Final advice for next steps in environmental support and advocacy. – 1.16.50Thanks to guest, acknowledgements, and episode close. – 1.19.11End of episode – 1.21.25 GUEST AND CONTACT DETAILS: Guest: Jill Sampson WEB https://jillsampson.com/ Householders’ Options to Protect the Environment (HOPE Inc. Australia): Tel: 07 4639 2135 Email: WEB Facebook Production: Produced for HOPE Inc. Australia by Andrew Nicholson. This episode recorded in Toowoomba, S.E. Queensland, Australia on 27th November 2023. Interview questions developed by: Anna Kula-Kaczmarski Incidental Music: James Nicholson Indigenous artwork for podcast logo: courtesy of Queensland Depart of Justice and Attorney General, Queensland Women's Strategy (2023) * Not all podcast platforms will activate the URL links shown below.They can however always be opened on the Podbean and Spotify platforms. IDEAS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED OR RELEVANT TO THE DISCUSSION Note that a full list of URL linked resources do not appear on shownote listings across all podcast platforms. They can always be found in full on the Podbean podcast hosting site and usually on Spotify Podcasts. THE BIMBLEBOX ART PROJECT A brilliant portal website on the Bimblebox Art Project (2023) documents many aspects of the inspiring and diverse artistic work undertaken under this project head over the last 10 years plus. With articles on the history of evolution of the projects and depiction of some of the artworks created in the process. There are also details on location and the background story of the Bimblebox Nature Refuge in Queensland, how to attend the artists camps on the Refuge, and much more beside. EARLY CHILDHOOD NATURE CONNECTEDNESS for establishing lifelong environmental values Information on Nature Connectedness from one of the leading international research centres. Author Richard Louve’s work on the problems which can arise from the lack of childhood exposure to nature and the concept of nature deficit disorder. ECO ARTS AUSTRALIS 3RD NATIONAL CONFERENCE, WOLLONGONG 2019 – conference program ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND CURRENT UNDER RESOURCING in schools and in other sectors. An excellent recent academic paper on the need to ‘reimagine, recreate, and restore’ the crucial importance of environmental education for ecological transformation (...
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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES

    INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES
    Jul 21 2023
    A warm welcome to Queensland Women: Inspiring stories from Environmental Champions (QWEC) This is a podcast series showcasing the vital environmental protection and advocacy work of Queensland women, many of whom have made important contributions to this vital work across the Darling Downs region of S.E. Queensland. PURPOSE: This podcast project was produced in conjunction with the Queensland Women’s Week (2023) event, and it supports the goals of the Investing in Queensland Women and Queensland Women’s Strategy 2022-27 initiatives. Particularly as those initiatives aim to increase the empowerment and recognition of the achievements of women and girls in Queensland. As a long-standing community environmental education and capacity building organisation in Queensland, Householders’ Options to Protect the Environment (HOPE)Inc.(Australia) is delighted to produce this series as a celebration and fuller acknowledgement of the vital contributions that the women of Queensland and the Darling Downs region have made, and are continuing to make, toward protecting and conserving our nature and natural systems in this place. BACKGROUND: In 2023 we believe that Queensland women and girls are still not sufficiently recognised for their contributions to protecting our environment, or for the integral part they have played in our environmental support history. We believe that without their tireless but often underacknowledged efforts, many environmental and socio-ecological protections and reforms would not have achieved the level of success they have today. HOPE Inc. is producing Queensland Women: inspiring stories from Environmental Champions (QWEC) to help bring wider recognition to the work and stories of inspirational regional women, and the beneficial impact their environmental advocacy, championing and leadership work has made across the Darling Downs region and in Queensland more widely. Women have worked tenaciously in these various places, and elsewhere, to help lead and inspire, implement policies, and to enact change to preserve and protect our nature, our ecosystems and natural places— our waterways and landscapes, forest cover, oceans and mountains, and the precious wildlife that reside within those places. And through those environmental protective processes, they have also made valuable contributions to maintaining community human health and wellbeing, based upon crucial human need for access to clean air, potable water, nutritious food and a healthy natural world around us. Podcast guests will share some of the successes, struggles, and hurdles they have had to overcome in their mission to protect our environment. And by producing these podcast interviews, (HOPE)Inc. (Australia) wants to raise community awareness of the multiple benefits of having more women in crucial environmental decision-making and leadership positions. There is a misconception in our society that success and meaningful leadership opportunities exist only in the realms of the male-dominated corporate sector centred in large cities. This could be one of the many barriers to female representation in leadership across Australia. This podcast showcase of the successes and impacts made by Queensland women in achieving important environmental protections highlights a possible alternative path to leadership for regional and rural women across Australia. Our podcast guest stories help demonstrate that women can become influential leaders at any point in their lives, be they 20 or 70. FORMAT: Each podcast guest interview is structured around variants of some core questions: How did you develop your interest in environmental advocacy and protection work?What are some of your environmental achievements? What are you most proud of?What are some of the challenges you faced in your career and how have you overcome them?What exciting new environmental projects are you working on ?Do you have any advice, and particularly for women, wanting to step up into conservation, wildlife protection or other environmental support roles? DISTRIBUTION: Episodes of (QWEC) will become available from late June 2023 onward and we hope the series will be promoted widely across relevant networks. The episodes of the series should become available on various platforms including: PODBEAN, SPOTIFY PODCASTS, GOOGLE PODCASTS, STITCHER, PLAYERFM and APPLE PODCASTS. Contact details for any responses to the series will be made available in the resource and reference show notes accompanying each episode. We also ask listeners to consider giving us feedback through podcast app ratings and comments sections - and perhaps in more detail by using our short, online listener survey as detailed below. HOW TO ACCESS OUR PODCAST SERIES LISTENER SURVEY Our Queensland Women Environmental Champions Podcast Series - listener survey is available now on Survey Monkey and consists of only six simple questions which should take only about five minutes or less to complete....
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    6 mins
  • Wildlife Rescue, Rehabilitation and Education

    Wildlife Rescue, Rehabilitation and Education
    Jul 21 2023
    Thirty years’ experience in the field of Wildlife Rescue, Rehabilitation and Education Guest: Patricia LeeHong - expert and dedicated practitioner in Wildlife Rescue, Rehabilitation and Education Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Queensland and PhD Candidate in the School of Agriculture and Food Sciences at the University of Queensland: Gatton Campus. Introduction to this episode: The crucially important environment protection roles served by wildlife rescue, rehabilitation and education practitioners have only increased in recent years in Queensland in Australia, nationally, and in many other parts of the world. Almost everywhere around the planet the ever diminishing remnants of the natural world ( habitat) and the wildlife species they contain (biodiversity) remain under constant further threat from impacts such as poorly planned urban and agricultural expansion. These trends have led to what has been termed by scientists the 6th species extinction crisis - and unlike the previous 5 extinction crises - this one is being driven solely by human impacts. In the south east corner of Queensland the continuing trends of habitat and wildlife destruction are sadly all too evident and are well known to my guest in this episode of the podcast series, Trish LeeHong. Over many years Trish has worked at a variety of roles in wildlife protection, most recently from within the wildlife rehabilitation centre she has created near the town of Toowoomba. Amongst many species of animal brought to the centre for rehabilitation from injury or even starvation, Trish is devoting particular time to koala rehabilitation and building an in house facility to help improve the professional care for koala and other wildlife in this region. Trish’s recent receipt of the Australian Wildlife Society Serventy Conservation Award 2022 is only one of several official forms of recognition of her valuable contribution to wildlife conservation. INTERVIEW TALKING POINTS - with approximate time elapsed in mins. Guest foreshadow comment - 0.00Generic podcast series introduction. – 0.30Current episode and guest introduction. – 2.16Guest comments: how did your passion for the environment start? – 4.21 (story of juvenile wallaby care) Who inspired or mentored you in your work? – 12.30 (story of early 1990s Japanese research on climate change impacts) How did you get involved with environmental conservation to begin with? – 22.15When did you first realise the impact of your work on restoring the environment? – 28.30What are the environmental achievements you are particularly proud of and why? – 42.28What are some of the challenges you have faced and how did you respond ? – 51.21How has your work influenced your wellbeing - work philosophy?Are you working on any current, exciting projects? – 1.03.28Advice for some next steps in environmental protection. – 1.11.00Thanks to guest, acknowledgements and episode close. – 1.12:30End of episode – 1.14.18 IDEAS MENTIONED AND RESOURCES RELEVANT TO THE DISCUSSION TRISH LEEHONG – some information relevant to her organisation and work Wildlife Rescue Rehabilitation & Education Association Inc. (Facebook page) and Website (2023). The Serventy Conservation award - history of the award in Australia and an article about Trish LeeHong's specific 2022 award (2023). ABC TV Australia video clip reports relevant to Trish’s work on Koala rehabilitation in 2020 and another native species in 2010 A recent (2023) promotional video about Trish’s work made by Griffith University Queensland social marketing studies students OTHER LINKS ABC TV (Australia) documentary on Platypus conservation in Hobart, Tasmania; The Platypus Guardian – first broadcast in Australia in mid-June 2023.Link to streaming media broadcast of the programme in Australia. And an example of local public response in Hobart (2023) Anthropocentric and ecocentric approaches towards the environment explanation – an interesting Indian article viewing these terms through an environmental law framing (2020) Australian example of response to nature loss issues at the Federal level (2022) Australia-Japan Wildlife Conservation and Education Foundation – a Japanese originated conservation partnership organisation which operates a tour group program. That program sends students from various Japanese schools and universities to study wildlife conservation here. For instance, Trish will have an exchange student staying for 2 months internship with her at the end of the 2023. Biodiversity (nature) loss and nature positive conservation strategies - explanation of these terms (2023) Biodiversity Conference - the UN COP 15 meeting held in Montreal, Canada in December 2022 - with information on some of the international reduction and reversal of nature loss (biodiversity) targets agreed, including the so-called 30 X 30 target (2023) Human excessive consumption and waste as key drivers ...
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    1 hr and 14 mins

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