Zoo keeper @ZooVictoria's #HealesvilleSanctuary | MSc in Biosciences: wildlife disease and parasitology šš¦š | Tweets are my own
Joined March 2017
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24 Sep 2020
So excited to see my masterās research published! Thank you to everyone involved in this project - it was a incredible international collaborative effort from fieldwork to lab work to publication ššš®š©
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8 Dec 2019
So lucky to have the opportunity to do fieldwork in such an incredible place āļø #mountainpygmypossum #zoosvictoria #criticallyendangered
#fightingextinction
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Monique Winterhoff retweeted
27 Sep 2019
Meet Kelly Speerāa new Ph.D. graduate of @RGGSatAMNH. She has investigated bat fly microbiome variation & how it may affect the ability of these parasites to transmit disease among bats. Read more: bit.ly/2kXX4ISš¦
ALT Kelly Speer, smiling, closeup and outdoor.
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Monique Winterhoff retweeted
24 Sep 2019
My first paper (A field ecologistās guide to environmental DNA sampling in freshwater environments) is published! *happy dance* publications.rzsnsw.org.au/dā¦ @r_tingley @andrewrweeks #GAPS #GreatOzPlatySearch #eDNA #OA @platypusSPOT @enviro_DNA @unimelb @sdzglobal
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Monique Winterhoff retweeted
19 Sep 2019
Who gives a ratās? There are 60 species of native Aussie rodents. Sadly, 30% of these face extinction. 10 are already extinct.
This ā¦@smhā© & ā¦@theageā© article asks - why donāt we care about native rodents as much as koalas? #StickieSeptember smh.com.au/environment/conseā¦
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7 Sep 2019
Spent an incredible day watching the release of captive breed #HelmetedHoneyeaters into the wild! Such amazing work by @ZoosVictoria, @ParksVictoria, @DELWP_Vic and all the volunteers who work with the program.
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Monique Winterhoff retweeted
26 Aug 2019
Helping save the mountain pygmy possum could be as easy as flicking a switch.
CEO of @ZoosVictoria Jenny Gray tells Jon Faine how.
abc.net.au/radio/melbourne/pā¦
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25 Aug 2019
We can all make a difference and help save this incredible species the #MountainPygmyPossum and their vital food source the #BogongMoth
Make sure to turn those unnecessaryš”off so the lilā moths can make their way home to the š
25 Aug 2019
āļøHELPāļøThis spring, Mountain Pygmy-possums are facing the fight of their lives after Bogong Moth numbers have collapsed.
Weāre asking south-east Australians to make one simple change: turn off unnecessary outside lights overnight. More ā”ļø zoo.org.au/possums
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Monique Winterhoff retweeted
16 Aug 2019
Overwhelmed and honoured to win the Young Scientist Research Prize in Biological Sciences last night, from @RoyalSocietyVic. The standard of Victoria's ECRs was on show across all the talks, and it was a proud moment to be among an all-women line up of finalists! #WomenInSTEMM
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15 Aug 2019
I may be a day late, but happy #WorldLizardDay. Here is an endangered #guthegaskink thatās been measured and weighed as part of vital conservation research by Dr. Zac Atkins. I am so proud to work on a team looking after the breeding program at #HealesvilleSanctuary @ZoosVictoria
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15 Aug 2019
"Australia has lost millions of years of evolution in the last 200 years of rapid extinction." @Emily_Roycroft incredible genomic research highlights the genetic diversity we have lost through the extinction of our native rodent species
@RoyalSocietyVic @museumsvictoria @unimelb
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15 Aug 2019
30 Australian mammals have gone extinct since European arrival. @Emily_Roycroft using DNA sampling of #museum collections of extinct rodent species to test what biological and environmental factors may predict risk ofšextinction
@RoyalSocietyVic @unimelb @museumsvictoria
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Monique Winterhoff retweeted
4 Aug 2019
Chuffed to receive my authors copy of @CSIROPublishing's beautiful new Saving the #TasmanianDevil book! I'm proud to have lead a chapter with our captive conservation partners. Looking forward to the launch in September! @ZoosVictoria @HoggCarolyn @KathyBelov #FightingExtinction
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Monique Winterhoff retweeted
2 Aug 2019
Great new paper by my very talent PhD student Kirilee Chaplin in @systbiol on integrating genomics and ct scanning in species delimitation. @joanna_sumner99 @museumsvictoria #dragonlizards #taxonomy doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syz04ā¦
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Monique Winterhoff retweeted
18 Jul 2019
This is very cool - keepers have trained Krystal the Kangaroo to voluntarily hop up on to the scales for keepers to check her weight and make sure she's doing a-ok!
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Monique Winterhoff retweeted
10 Jul 2019
And not just in Canberra. In the media too ... David Attenborough says it's 'extraordinary' climate deniers are in power in Australia theguardian.com/tv-and-radioā¦
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Monique Winterhoff retweeted
27 Jun 2019
Today we launched @ZoosVictoriaās new blueprint for wildlife conservation for the next five years. It includes increasing the number of local threatened species we protect from 21 to 27 and we need your help: zoo.org.au/news/conservationā¦ #biodiversity
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Monique Winterhoff retweeted
27 Jun 2019
10 years ago our team witnessed the last call of the last Pipistrelle Bat. This experience shook our organisation and we decided enough was enough.
Today, we are launching our second Wildlife Conservation Master Plan. Letās kick extinctionās butt! š zoo.org.au/news/conservationā¦
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Monique Winterhoff retweeted
24 Jun 2019
"Australia's nature laws are broken". Having a glass of wine or 3 after @4corners excellent story on our extinction crisis š·š·š· We are a rich country. We have the science. We can & must do better. Wildlife biologists are #FightingExtinction every day. Join us.
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24 Jun 2019
With money in short supply, many rescue efforts are reliant on volunteers and crowd funding. #4Corners
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24 Jun 2019
Some of the inspiring work by local communities in #FightingExtinction highlighted on #ExtinctionNation by @4corners. Community conservation is such an important aspect of saving #ThreatenedSpecies and we can all help make a difference š
24 Jun 2019
Watching #4Corners tonight and feeling a bit overwhelmed by the magnitude of the challenge facing our threatened species? Weād love you to consider an EOFY donation to help us fight wildlife extinction: donate.zoo.org.au
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