TAVERN TALK - May 2025
Speaker: Paul Donatiu
Topic: Living on the Edge: Threatened Plants of the Toowoomba Region and their Conservation
Date: Thursday 22 May 2025
Time: 6 pm for 7 pm presentation
Place: Highfields Tavern
Cost: Nil (but purchase your own dinner and drinks)
Paul Donatiu – Living on the Edge: Threatened Plants of the Toowoomba Region and their Conservation
In this Tavern Talk, Paul will discuss:
- State of threatened flora in Qld
- Rare plants of the Toowoomba Region
- Some key threats
- How community groups can get involved with plant conservation and recovery.
About Paul Donatiu
Paul manages the Queensland Threatened Plant Network, a relatively new organisation focussed on best practice conservation for listed plant species. Paul has a study background in architecture, psychology and environmental management, and has practised community development and community education. He has worked for WWF, Greening Australia, Queensland National Parks Association, Griffith University and Healthy Land and Water.
Apart from species recovery, Paul’s fields of interest include ecological restoration, fire ecology, landscape ecology, and the management and preservation of cultural landscapes.
Paul has also completed a Churchill Fellowship that examined how five national agencies in Europe, USA and South Africa were dealing with climate impacts on their protected areas. In his spare time, Paul can be found wandering the bush adding to his personal visual herbarium, gardening, reading or wrangling his two daughters (not necessarily in that order!).
