Love your Woody Elders

Dr Beth Mott is a conservation biologist with an unquenchable thirst for wildlife.

She has worked in rainforests, deserts, blacksoil plains and woodlands, in pursuit of the next super cool critter to see and help.

Beth has run with rock-wallabies, built stimulating cartoons for fish, wrangled Albatross, cuddled quolls and sung with the owls, in order to help us all understand how we can walk lightly on the Earth.

Now a Threatened Species Officer with Dept Planning and Environment, Beth currently manages several revegetation projects including the Milton Ulladulla Subtropical Rainforest Revival and Feed the Birds, a corridor building project for Glossy Black-cockatoos.

Beth finds it an honour to help people learn more about their own fabulous patch of ground.

Beth has spent the last five years chasing Powerful owls around the Greater Sydney, and has come to realise that when we look at conserving threatened fauna, we are always talking about the trees.

Today’s talk – Love your Woody Elders - will delve into the mysteries of large tree hollows, how they are made and lost, how they interact with fire, why people need them, how they work and why they are so important for so many of our threatened wildlife.

Please tune in to hear a lovely tale of excellent old trees.