Yolanda van Heezik
Dunedin
Yolanda van Heezik (Zoology Department) teaches wildlife management and conservation biology. Her research examines birds and other wildlife in urban areas, penguin ecology, biodiversity of gardens, and most recently, children’s connection with nature. She is currently exploring how ageing affects nature engagement, and is part of a multi-institutional team investigating restoration initiatives in urban areas, and cultural influences on attitudes and motivations to native biodiversity and community restoration initiatives.
More by this author at The Nature of Cities
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New Zealand’s Ecological Identity: Should We All Kill Exotic Species to Protect our Natural Heritage?
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Some Kind of Nature… But What Will We End Up With?
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Are cities ecosystems—analogous to natural ones—of nature, infrastructure and people? Does thinking about cities in this way help us think about urban design?
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Green Form and Function versus Green Nativism: In changing urban spaces full of novel ecosystems and natural assemblages, is native purity a viable option?
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Is there such a thing as a “bird friendly city”? What does it look like? What does it not look like? Why bother?
