Emily McLeod 🍉

✨Job opportunity!✨ Are you a social scientist keen to contribute to conservation behaviour change programs and explore ways to get people acting for nature? Then come work with me at Zoos Victoria!

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A two-by-two grid with concentric circles of different colours and thicknesses in each, representing numbers of records added to the Atlas of Living Australia over the last 50 years. The rings resemble cross sections of trees, and each is set against a different brightly coloured background.

It’s National Tree Day!* 🌴🌳🌲📊

I visualised patterns of records added to the Atlas of Living Australia over the last 50 years as tree rings for 4 iconic Australian species: Mountain Ash, Snow Gum, Moreton Bay Fig, and River Red Gum
#rstats

*well, two days ago but who’s counting

Wonderful to share our research at #ICCB2025 showing how promoting captive animal experiences that prioritise animal agency can increase participation intent and positive attitudes towards the venue.

Appreciated hearing about the role of welfare in conservation at #ICCB2025. @janirecas.bsky.social outlined how to look at wild animal welfare and how its consideration can improve the success of conservation efforts

Meg standing next to her title slide with the text "picture this. Using pictures to inspire conservation action" Green forest background, blond white woman taking photo on old school camera in foreground, rainbow lorikeet perched behind her

Meg's result slide showing violin plot of engagement rates with various taxa. Some sig differences but no diff between mammals, frogs, birds, molluscs

With standing room only, @meg-shaw.bsky.social talked us through ways to responsibly increase engagement in wildlife conservation images. My fav tips: avoid human-animal interactions and no need to stick to mammal pics only - similar engagement across a range of taxa!
#ICCB2025

Fantastic talk by John Woinarski today at #ICCB2025 about mammal conservation & addressing invasive species impact denialism & related discourse. There’s been great philosophical & pragmatic discussions at the conference on this topic, with vast overwhelming support for protecting native species.

Photo of Arabella and her title slide

Photo of a leadbeater possum and key lessons

"Extinction is a choice and one we don't have to accept." Arabella Eyre gives us a powerful reminder that 1% of Aust GDP would achieve this and highlights the extensive work undertaken to try to save the Leadbeater's possum

#ICCB2025

Slide with bar graphs showing 71% reduction in wedgefish and 4% decrease in hammerhead

Slide showing unintended consequences of program. Not as bigger reduction in wedgefish as thought. People seeking them out to release and increase in hammerhead bycatch due to higher mortality post catch

Fascinating talk from @hollieboothie.bsky.social showing the importance of RCT studies with cross-over design to find the true impact of incentive behav change programs & uncover unintended changes in behaviour that can then inform refinement and improvement of program

#ICCB2025

Amy Coetzee from Zoos Victoria shows the benefits of cat control on small marsupials; Eastern Barred Bandicoots & Long nosed Potoroos on islands. Cat control has commenced on French Island already benefiting threatened species. Here's hoping cat eradication is achieved! #ICCB2025

Drs Fadu & Olaleru talk of the importance of understanding the social interactions & attitudes of different generations in human-elephant conflicts to create shared solutions

#ICCB2025 #HumanWildlifeConflict

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Pic of Birrarung river with the question " if you listened to your local river, what stories would it tell you"

Text showing the policy that recognises Birrarung as a living and integrated natural entity

For the first time a river has been recognised as a living being. @christinarenowden.bsky.social is looking at how this recognition of the Birrarung is changing people-river relationships.

##ICCB2025

Image of Liz's upcoming arc research to piloting community engagement and volunteer retention strategies

Follow @footesea.bsky.social steps to increase freq & accuracy of koala citizen science reports: 1. have usable tech, 2. give productive feedback, 3. proactive & hands-on training, 4. foster social opportunities, 5. incentives, 6. collaboration & coordination

#ICCB2025

Dr Sifan Hu found building children's self-efficacy in education programs was an important component of nature connection and conservation behaviour, and shows us ways to achieve this.

#ICCB2025

Volunteers are crucial for conservation work but there is a risk of burnout amongst them. @angelasocsci.bsky.social & Tracy Schultz identified the factors associated with greater risk of volunteers leaving & give great recommendations to keep these wonderful people engaged!

#ICCB2025 #ConSocSci

Love hearing holistic approaches to conservation. Ali Chauvenet shows us how nature-based therapy improves mental well-being (& why conservationists should care about this)

#ICCB2025

Image of Shandiya giving her talk. Front slide of talk shows a data visualisation with title of talk "supporting scientists and decision-makers to us biodiversity data"

How to improve open science? @shandiya.bsky.social talks us through tools developed by atlas for scientists and orgs to increase sharing and access to biodiversity data

#OpenScience #ICCB2025

Slide of a talk showing multiple species to choose from on the left. On the right are the steps Mareshall used: historical analysis, ground truthing field surveys, expert elicitation

How to chose which species to include in rewilding efforts? Was it there? Will it persist in the landscape? Conflicts with people? Mareshell Wauchope talks us steps us through the decision-making process

#ICCB2025

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It's day 1 of #ICCB2025! Excited to be speaking in the Biodiversity Inventories session this morning at 10.30am - come along if you want to know about tools and resources to support open science research practices 🧪🌏

Are you a fan of urban birds? Keen to know how we can better support native birds in our cities? Come along to my speed talk tomorrow to find out!

* Mon 16 June at 10.30am *
"Sustainable Land and Water Use" in Room M2

#ICCB2025 #Conference #Research #SciComm #Conservation #UrbanEcology #Birds

Such valuable discussions on the challenges of creating guidelines for all species & contexts! Thanks all! See how we've translated research into practice with our wildlife image guidelines: zoo.org.au/training/animal-welfare

#ICCB2025 #ConSocSci

Climate action literacy interventions increase commitments to more effective mitigation behaviors Abstract. Reducing lifestyle carbon emissions is a critical component of decarbonizing society. However, people hold substantial misperceptions about the r

🧠🌍 Can you correct misperceptions of the impact of different climate actions?

In a new @pnasnexus.org paper, we tested whether climate action literacy interventions can shift behavioral commitments toward more effective climate actions. Check out our neat results 🙂
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Check out this info to learn more about activism in action - beyond the big groups and big headlines we can see quite a nuanced story.

Excited for all the chats at #ICCB2025! Find me:

➡️Sharing my research on wildlife tourism behaviours on Wed 18 @ 11:35am in the Social Sciences & Conservation session

➡️ Presenting Zoos Victoria’s Image Guidelines at the Designing Social Media Imagery Guidelines for Conservation forum on Sat 14