Richard Beggs

Richard Beggs completed an honours degree in agriculture at Aberdeen University in 1987 then took an extended year out to explore what's left of the planet. Returning to the warm bosom of academia in 2012 to do a Masters in environmental management at UWA, he is now engaged in a Phd at the ANU looking at ways of providing symptomatic relief for the problem of hyper-successful noisy miners whilst studiously ignoring the deeper structural issues that caused it in the first place. In particular, the project aims to find empirical evidence of the effects of removing noisy miners from woodland remnants in the highly fragmented agricultural landscapes of the South West Slopes of NSW.