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We held a Q&A with 2024 SCB Graduate Student Research Award winner Diana Methner to learn more about her thesis project, “Are mitigation translocations achieving positive outcomes for lizard conservation in New Zealand and how can we improve them?” Diana is a current PhD student in the School of Biological Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington, and a member of the SCB Oceania Region.
The Society for Conservation Biology and the Cedar Tree Foundation announce the recipients of the 2025 David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship.