Dr Marissa Parrott
@drmparrott
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Senior Conservation Biologist, Wildlife Conservation & Science, @ZoosVictoria. #FightingExtinction. #TeamHB4 @HomewardBound16. Tweeting in a personal capacity.
Joined June 2014
You are looking at the new Senior Conservation Biologist for @ZoosVictoria! I've had a title upgrade ❤️ .My new title best reflects the varied job I do every day to fight extinction for animals like this tiny Pookila 🐭🐧🦎🐸🦋.#dreamjob #FightingExtinction #conservation #scicomm
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Go paddle pups - a fabulous cartoon about serious(ly cool) platypus science at @zoosvictoria #scicomm #dogsoftwitter.@firstdogonmoon.
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RT @IUCN_SMSG: Any small mammal conservationists wanting to apply???.Applications only open for a week starting 7th July. .
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AMS 2025! A truly inspiring start to the conference from Dr Kelly Dixon working to protect and recover the Brush-tailed Rabbit-rat - with success despite many hurdles 💗🐭.@AusMammals #ausmamsoc25
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We can all work together to track & protect the tiny, mighty, Bogong Moth, but many other invertebrates collapse & are lost in silence. We must do better. Read the latest below from @mb_dahlstrom @YahooNews @ZoosVictoria .#MothTracker #FightingExtinction.
"Things can go wrong very quickly" - @drmparrott. Despite the bogong moth making a limited recovery since numbers plummeted 99.5%, experts are worried about the future of Australia's insects.
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RT @Nature: Bogong moths migrate hundreds of kilometres and back each year using the southern night sky as their compass. .
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Awesome conservation work! Congratulations @ZoosVictoria @ParksVictoria & everyone involved ❤️🐦.#FightingExtinction.
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RT @madfuzz82: We got some great contributions for this, but we want more, more, more! If you're out there with a plant conservation phy….
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RT @WomSAT: Team #WomSAT wishes you a joyful and safe #Easter! As you travel this #WombatWeekend, please #drive with care and watch for our….
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RT @PeterCaley1: For some #bogong moths their aestivation is not yet finished. We found some clusters of tiling moths on the aptly named Bo….
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Huge waves, sand washing away, and dead fish washed up on shore ahead of Cyclone Alfred. It's a scary time for people and animals (except the gulls who are enjoying a smorgasbord of fish)!.#CycloneAlfred
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A spectacular but ominous sky ahead of Cyclone Alfred near Byron Bay last night. Stay safe everyone! This cyclone is already making its presence felt and is very serious. Our fieldwork is finished and packed up early @ZoosVictoria #FightingExtinction
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I'm excited to be an invited panellist at the Bogong Moth Summit with team Moth Tracker next week! Check it out below 🦋❤️.@ZoosVictoria #MothTracker.
At the Bogong Moth Summit we will come together to look after the Bogong moth - an iconic but threatened Australian species. IA is a key partner of this event, and the general public is welcome to attend on the 27th of February. Register now at:
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Amazing news from our #MothTracker citizen science program to help endangered Bogong Moths and Critically Endangered Mountain Pygmy-possums. Our best season yet! A huge thank you to all our Moth Trackers ❤️🦋.@ZoosVictoria #scicomm.
Spectacular news!👏 The Moth Tracker website received 1,956 moth sightings between September and December 2024, with 1,089 of these sightings verified as Endangered Bogong Moths - over 250% increase compared with 2023. Find out more here
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Fabulous news for this tiny but mighty endangered species! Stay tuned for more on Bogong moths over the coming weeks ❤️🦋.
Numbers of #bogong moths on Mt Gingera this past season have been close to b4 the nasty 2017-19 drought. Encouraging resilience. #AgrotisInfusa #Namadgi
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RT @FansonKerry: So excited about @AliciaDimovski's research on frog hormones!! There is so much to learn about frog endocrinology, and th….
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@ZoosVictoria @abcnews @abcmelbourne Some futher fantastic information from Nick, with his permission to share this 🐍
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Awesome work by my colleague & good friend, Nick Clemann, & team! Such a beautiful endangered snake & wonderful finding ❤️🐍.@ZoosVictoria @abcnews @abcmelbourne.
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RT @PeterCaley1: Excited to find aestivating #bogong moths this year on the highest peaks within the Bogong Peaks wilderness. #AgrotisInfus….
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RT @TheAusToday: In 2025, let’s make it game on – not game over – for our precious natural world, write Darcy Watchorn and @drmparrott . Re….
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