Alex Edwards

Conservation Project Officer

Alex is deeply passionate about the potential for ambitious, innovative conservation projects to create meaningful environmental outcomes.

For the past 7 years she worked on pest-eradication projects in New Zealand, witnessing native birdlife and ecosystems recover in response to her work. She is excited to bring this passion for practical, landscape-scale conservation to the feral pig management project at the Conservation Ecology Centre.

Alex grew up in Victoria and studied at Deakin University before moving to New Zealand to pursue a career in conservation. In NZ, she worked with the Department of Conservation on invasive weed eradication programs across offshore islands, before joining Zero Invasive Predators (ZIP), an innovative not-for-profit research and development organisation focused on landscape-scale invasive species eradication. At ZIP, Alex worked on a New Zealand-first pest eradication project across 107,000 hectares of rugged wilderness on the west coast of the South Island. The project aimed to eliminate three invasive species (rats, stoats and possums) from an expansive landscape stretching from the alpine divide to the remote shores of South Westland, using natural river and mountain boundaries to slow reinvasion. It’s now on track to be the first predator-free landscape in NZ.