Unlocking the potential of eDNA for landcare projects

Unlocking the potential of eDNA for landcare projects

Tuesday 12 March 2024 1.30-2.30 pm online on Zoom

Join the WALN Team with guest speaker Sam Marwood, CEO Odonata Foundation to learn about the power of eDNA (environmental DNA) and how it can help better understand the ecological values hidden in your patch.

Some of you might have been lucky enough to hear Odonata Foundation’s CEO Sam Marwood at December’s Annual Gathering where he spoke passionately of the work being done with partners to save our native wildlife and increase biodiversity.

Sam’s enthusiasm is contagious and made lots of landcarers want to urgently learn more about the power of eDNA (environmental DNA) and how it can help better understand the ecological values hidden in their patch. There are many learnings to unpack from the work they have done to date and potential funding and collaboration opportunities for community landcare and other stakeholders.

Sam will present on some of his larger scale projects where eDNA is playing a part in better understanding the landscape and will discuss how these key learnings can be applied to community scale projects.

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ABOUT SAM MARWOOD

Sam is an environmental entrepreneur. He has founded and sat on the board for multiple nature-focused businesses, and most notably established and co-founded farm match-making social enterprise, Cultivate Farms, and fundraising platform, Edge Pledge. Sam is now CEO of Odonata Foundation and completed a Bachelor of Applied Science in Environmental Science at the University of Melbourne, and after graduating spent 12 years working for the Victorian Government in environmental policy.

This event is generously supported by the WA Government's State Natural Resource Management Program.