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John Woinarski
Australian ornithologist

John Woinarski

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Australian ornithologist
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69 years
Awards
D. L. Serventy Medal
(2001)
Australian Natural History Medallion
(2011)
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Biography

John Casimir Zichy Woinarski is an Australian ornithologist, mammalogist, and herpetologist.He was awarded the 2001 Eureka Prize for Biodiversity Research.In the same year he was the recipient of the D. L. Serventy Medal, awarded by the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union for outstanding published work on birds in the Australasian region.

Dr. Woinarski is currently Professor in the Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, a part-time position at Charles Darwin University, in Darwin, Northern Territory. Much of his work has been in northern Australia, where he has focused on threatened mammal species. He is a co-author of The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012.

In February 2019, speaking about the confirmed extinction of the Bramble Cay melomys, considered the only mammal endemic to the Great Barrier Reef and the first documented extinction of a mammal species due to climate change, he said that its loss was foreseeable and preventable. It had been known for years that its position was precarious, and he believed that its loss is at least partly due to under-funding for conservation programs and the fact that it was not an animal charismatic enough to garner much public attention.

In May 2020 the Federal Court of Australia accepted Dr. Woinarski's contributed expert opinion for the protection of some important forests in South Eastern Australia, being the threatened natural habitat of Australia's iconic Greater Glider and the Leadbeater’s Possum.

Sources

  • Brooker, Michael; & Ridpath, Michael. (2001). D.L. Serventy Medal 2001: Citation. John C.Z. Woinarski. Emu 101: 272.
  • Robin, Libby. (2001). The Flight of the Emu: a hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001. Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-522-84987-3

Selected bibliography

Books

  • Cats in Australia: Companion and Killer. Woinarski, J., Legge, S., Dickman, C. (CSIRO Publishing, 2019) ISBN 978-1-486-30843-9
  • A Bat's End: The Christmas Island Pipistrelle and Extinction in Australia. Woinarski, J. (CSIRO Publishing, 2018) ISBN 978-1-486-30863-7


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