Angela Moles

Here's Tim Entwhistle.

I'm here at the Australian Botanic Garden at Mount Annan, part of Botanic Gardens of Sydney, with ecologist Professor Angela Moles, who heads the big ecology lab at the University of New South Wales.

Let me take you back 13 years.

The last time you were on The Science Show, I think, was back in 2013 with part of the speech you gave after winning the inaugural Frank Fenner Life Scientist of the Year Award, which was part of the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science.

So only focusing on the species that are kind of falling off the cliff, we need to protect those, but only doing that would be very shortsighted.

I think we need to look after our ecosystems and give them the scope and the space to adapt to the enormous changes that we're putting on them.

Angela Moles, head of the Big Ecology Lab at the University of New South Wales, speaking to Tim Entwisle, who was the director of the Melbourne and Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens.

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Here's Tim Entwistle.

I'm here at the Australian Botanic Garden at Mount Annan, part of Botanic Gardens of Sydney, with ecologist Professor Angela Moles, who heads the big ecology lab at the University of New South Wales.

Let me take you back 13 years.

The last time you were on the Science Show, I think, was back in 2013, with part of the speech you gave after winning the inaugural Frank Fenner Life Scientist of the Year Award, which was part of the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science.

So only focusing on the species that are kind of falling off the cliff, we need to protect those, but only doing that would be very short-sighted.

I think we need to look after our ecosystems and give them the scope and the space to adapt to the enormous changes that we're putting on them.

Angela Moles, Head of the Big Ecology Lab at the University of New South Wales, speaking to

Tim Entwistle, who was the Director of the Melbourne and Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens.