DrRosalie Chapple

Rosalie Chapple is a cross-disciplinary conservation ecologist with a focus on protected areas and wildlife, and habitaully engages with socio-politically contentious issues such as bushfires, feral animals, dingoes, wild horses and Indian street dogs. A key inspiration is working with Indigenous peoples to reimagine how we practice conservation. 

Rosalie has been based in the TD School at UTS since 2023, where she is Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Centre for Compassionate Conservation. Her current research is on the behaviour and welfare of Indian street dogs (see https://rohindies.org). 

She works across academic, government and non-government sectors, including as a consultant, and teaches part-time in the Master of Environmental Management program at the University of NSW Sydney (UNSW). In 2004 she co-founded the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute (https://www.bmwhi.org) where she has held various positions including as Executuive Directive and Research Director, and remains on the Board of Directors. 

Rosalie lives on Gundungurra and Dharug country in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney.

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