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Without a company contract, you’d think a dancer like myself would feel discouraged. Here’s how I have managed to keep going.
One night in January 2020, I couldn’t sleep. I kept waking to check my phone for news from Kangaroo Island, off South Australia. Fires had already burned through several sites where I’d researched the island’s endangered glossy black cockatoos, and now it was tracking towards two critical habitat areas. The areas were crucial to the birds’ feeding and nesting. I knew losing these places would be a disaster for the already small and isolated population. At home in Queensland, I felt helpless and anxious. As ecology students, we learn a lot about the problems facing the most vulnerable...