Dr Jack Pascoe

Jack is a Yuin man who grew up on Gadabanut Country before leaving to study Environmental Science at Deakin University. Jack completed a PhD with the University of Western Sydney, where he studied the predators of the Blue Mountains. His key fields of interest are fire ecology and biocultural landscapes.

Jack is the Conservation & Research Manager at the Conservation Ecology Centre and is passionate about restoring productive ecosystems on Maar Country, where the CEC operations are based. Immediately prior to joining the CEC, Jack worked with one of our project partners, the Southern Otway Landcare Network, primarily focusing on mitigating the impacts of pest plants and animals throughout the Otways.

Jack is currently a member of the Independent Expert Panel reviewing the Wildlife Act 1975 on behalf of the Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change and is also a member of both the Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning’s Scientific Reference Panel and Zoos Victoria’s Scientific Advisory Committee.

He also volunteers in firefighting, road rescue, steep angle recovery and search and rescue with the Apollo Bay Country Fire Authority.