Co-founder & Director

Ecology | Education | Design

Cassia is an ecologist, educator and garden designer. Her work centres on creating win-win landscapes that support both the wellbeing of people and conservation of biodiversity in a changing climate. She is an innovative researcher with interests spanning landscape ecology, planting design, climate adaptation, urban greening, wildlife gardening and community engagement. She has worked for university, government, not-for-profit and private sectors and has conducted fieldwork in ecosystems across southern Australia.Cassia works as a planting and ecological landscape designer in her business Emerging Landscapes, lectures in ecology at La Trobe, Bendigo and is co-founder of Climate Flags.

BSci (Hons), PhD (Ecology) and GC-GARDESConnect with Cassia on Instagram @cassiaread