This year I spent International Women’s day out in the field with students and some amazing (female) colleagues. I sadly missed the annual Tasmanian Land Conservancy Women in Conservation event – but instead got to do some live women in conservation activities like field surveys for caged and un-caged Eucalyptus saplings to determine if caging is a successful strategy to protect saplings from deer damage and wallaby browsing. Is there any better way to celebrate great conservation science and International Women’s day than in nature?

Photo credit Peter Allen University of Tasmania: Women in Conservation – Kerry Bridle, Vanessa Adams, and Karen Johnson surveying Eucalyptus seedlings and saplings on a conservation property in the Midlands.