Lily van Eeden – The Conversation

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January 30, 2025

Make a noise or work with the system? New research reveals 4 ways to create real change for nature

Lily van Eeden, RMIT University; Liam Smith, Monash University, and Sarah Bekessy, RMIT University

Researchers mined the knowledge of politicians, public servants and environmental advocates to understand how everyday people can achieve real change for nature.

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May 9, 2023

How Alone Australia can help us understand and appreciate our place in nature

Lily van Eeden, Monash University; Christina Renowden, Monash University; Fern Hames, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research; Kate Lee, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research; Melissa Hatty, Monash University, and Sarah Bekessy, RMIT University

The contestants’ relationships with nature clearly shape their actions. As armchair experts, each of us may reflect on our own relationship with nature and how we would act in the same situation.

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September 12, 2021

Research reveals why pet owners keep their cats indoors – and it’s not to protect wildlife

Lily van Eeden, Monash University; Emily McLeod, Queensland University of Technology; Fern Hames, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, and Zoe Squires, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research

Roaming pet cats can kill more than 180 animals each year. But most people who keep cats inside do so for the welfare of their pet.

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February 10, 2020

When introduced species are cute and loveable, culling them is a tricky proposition

Lily van Eeden, University of Sydney; Chris Dickman, University of Sydney; Jeremy T. Bruskotter, The Ohio State University; Mathew Crowther, University of Sydney, and Thomas Newsome, University of Sydney

Introduced species are often targeted for culling in conservation, but killing charismatic animals like foxes can be controversial.

Livestock guardian dog breeds, such as Maremma, are often raised with and trained to consider themselves part of a livestock herd and so protect their herd from threats. Shutterstock

September 26, 2018

Guardian dogs, fencing, and ‘fladry’ protect livestock from carnivores

Lily van Eeden, University of Sydney; Adrian Treves, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Euan Ritchie, Deakin University

All three of the methods found to be most effective at protecting livestock do not involve killing carnivores.

A wild dingo from the Great Sandy Desert, Western Australia. Bradley Smith

August 31, 2018

Why the WA government is wrong to play identity politics with dingoes

Bradley P. Smith, CQUniversity Australia; Euan Ritchie, Deakin University, and Lily van Eeden, University of Sydney

The WA government has announced plans to reclassify dingoes as no different to wild dogs - paving the way for them to be culled at will. But dingoes are unique and deserve to be recognised as such.

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