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Engaging Indigenous people within Higher Ed

CQUniversity's Office of Indigenous Engagement recently hosted a visit from the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), at Rockhampton Campus.

Professor Anita Lee Hong, Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, and Lone Pearce, Project Officer, met with Office of Indigenous Engagement staff to discuss employment issues and best practice models for engaging Indigenous people within the higher education sector, including governance matters.

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CQU hosts leading Brazilian conservation researcher 

Published on 08 July, 2005 

CQU’s Centre for Environmental Management (CEM) has hosted this week’s visit by a leading Brazilian conservation researcher.

Dr Alexine Keuroghlian is recognised for expertise drawing together complex research on regional ecosystems.

PhotoID:2160 She is coordinator of the Institute for Biological Conservation’s Pantanal Project – the Pantanal is a vast wilderness area in the centre of South America – and an Earthwatch principle investigator.

Because more than 95% of the Brazilian Pantanal is privately owned, one of the biggest challenges is balancing economic sustainability of the land with conservation.

CQU’s CEM Director Dr Alistair Melzer said he was keen to draw on Dr Keuroghlian’s experience and apply it to the CEM’s conservation-related research in Central Queensland.

While in Rockhampton, Dr Keuroghlian delivered a free public lecture about the importance of fruit availability to avoid extinction of white-lipped and collared peccaries (small pig-like mammals) in South American rainforests.

Dr Keuroghlian also addressed a Centre for Environmental Management workshop.

Photo: CEM Director Dr Alistair Melzer with Dr Alexine Keuroghlian, leading Brazilian conservation researcher.