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SUMMARY:The invention of wetlands:  histories of conservation and contesta
 tion from Australia - Emily O’Gorman (Macquarie University)
DTSTART:20150226T130000Z
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CONTACT:Dr. P MR Howell
DESCRIPTION:In this talk I will firstly give a brief overview of my new pr
 oject on the environmental history of wetlands in the Murray-Darling Basin
 . In this project I’m interested in examining what has counted as a wetl
 ands for whom and with what consequences? From the mid twentieth century\,
  but particularly from the 1970s\, international conservation efforts and 
 wetlands ecology have been central in regulatory definitions of what a wet
 land is\, significantly influencing their management in many places around
  the world. ‘Wetlands management’ has become contentious in some cases
 \, especially where it has been linked to the exclusion of particular peop
 le\, animals\, and plants from protected areas. While the scale and termin
 ology of these international efforts were in many ways new\, they also bro
 ught together a range of existing local activities and concerns\, (and ign
 ored others) and these often had much longer histories. The main focus of 
 the paper is on one of these earlier efforts\, in a region that has become
  an iconic wetland in Australia: The Coorong lagoon in South Australia. Th
 is history concentrates on the mass killing of young pelicans on islands i
 n the lagoon in 1911\, and the subsequent leasing of the islands by a grou
 p of ornithologists who sought to protect the pelicans and other birds tha
 t nested there. This event reveals a longer history of contention over the
 se places\; in this case\, competing views over killing\, protection and p
 rivate property\, by fishermen\, ornithologists and local Aboriginal peopl
 e. It also illuminates how places\, and their human and nonhuman inhabitan
 ts\, have shaped and been shaped by laws and regulatory structures.
LOCATION:Room 101\, Hardy Building\, Department of Geography
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