Arwen,
The same is happening across nearly all Departments in NSW Government.
I hate to think what cuts are going to happen in National Parks.
Carl Clifford
On 24/08/2011, at 8:45 AM, Arwen B. Ximenes wrote:
I thought there might have been comment on this list about these cuts
by now – last Thursday my husband and his colleagues were told 50% of
research staff would go at Forest NSW research division (housed at
Cumberland State Forest, West Pennant Hills).
Over the past four years they were being jointly funded by Forests NSW
and DPI. The New Forests group (where my husband works) was unaffected
this time, but Ecology and Forest Health were dealt a massive blow.
Unbelievably, a group of colleagues who have been working together for
years now have to compete with each other for only a couple of jobs.
Though all the research is relevant to birds in one way or another,
perhaps of most immediate relevance to this list is the impact on the
Forest Biodiversity and Ecology program led by Rod Kavanagh, of whom
many have probably heard or know, particularly in relation to research
on owls.
It is a terrible blow to wildlife research in NSW.
Here is an article which appeared in smh yesterday:
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/cuts-dont-see-wood-for-trees-say-scientists-20110822-1j6r3.html
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Arwen Blackwood Ximenes
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