Operation Wallacea
Operation Wallacea is a series of biological and social science expedition projects that operate in remote locations across the world. These expeditions are designed with specific wildlife conservation aims in mind - from identifying areas needing protection, through to implementing and assessing conservation management programmes. Large teams of university academics, who are specialists in various aspects of biodiversity or social and economic studies, are concentrated at the target study sites. Research Assistants and dissertation students joining the surveys have the option of customising their own itinerary from a range of training and science options. The surveys result in a large number of publications in peer-reviewed journals each year, have resulted in 30 vertebrate species new to science being discovered, 4 'extinct' species being re-discovered and $2 million levered from funding agencies to set up best practice management examples at the study sites. These large survey teams of academics and volunteers that are funded independently of normal academic sources have enabled large temporal and spatial biodiversity and socio-economic data sets to be produced, and provide information to help with organising effective conservation management programmes.www.opwall.com
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Oct 7, 2026
Dan O'NeillGUEST
There's grants that come in from the university.
Dan O'NeillGUEST
But then, for example, Operation Wallacea, an organization I work with quite a lot, they have... university master's students who come out and they learn from us and we work with them and those projects have been work running for sometimes 20 25 years because that funding model from students coming to get those experiences and they can fundraise for that and there's many ways that they can bring in that finance that creates the ability to have a really long-term ecological study so our site in mexico i think it's now you know it's now 14 15 years it's been running and that's through that so that funds us as well on all the work that we're doing there but then um from a tv's standpoint don't want to hide away from the fact that it's difficult in the natural history television industry as i'm sure it is with all filmmaking parts of the world at the moment real theme this weekend yeah i mean 48 of natural history freelancers are currently out of work 75 of factual entertainment people have been out of work in different sectors it is tough But that also creates an interesting framework by which to get things.
Dan O'NeillGUEST
So co-production is a big one now.
Dan O'NeillGUEST
So for example, channels like the BBC will be co-producing with PBS.