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Australia’s iconic bogong moths are the first creatures other than humans and some birds known to navigate by the night sky.
Invertebrates underpin Earth’s ecosystems – so if their numbers decline, the ecological damage will be felt far and wide.
The main food for the mountain pygmy-possum’s spring/summer breeding season is the migratory bogong moth, but in 2017 and 2018 billions of bogong moths failed to arrive. Then the bushfires did.
Billions of bogong moths are setting out from Queensland, but not reaching Victoria. We need citizen scientists to help figure out where they’re ending up.
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Director Wildlife Conservation and Science, Zoos Victoria, The University of Melbourne
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University Fellow in Biodiversity, Charles Darwin University
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Professor in Evolution and Behaviour, The University of Melbourne
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Executive Manager, Biocultural Landscapes at Taungurung Land and Waters Council, Indigenous Knowledge
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Honorary Research Associate in BioSciences, The University of Melbourne
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Environmental Scientist - Fauna, Parks Victoria; Honorary Fellow, School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Zoology, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Zoology, Lund University
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Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney