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Ms Alexandra de Blas
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Ms Alexandra de Blas
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Ms Alexandra de BlasAlexandra de Blas is the Communications Strategist at the Australian Bush Heritage Fund, a not for profit, independent, private land conservation organisation with 25 reserves across the country.She is most widely known in her former role as the environmental voice of ABC Radio.Alexandra presented and produced Earthbeat, a specialist environment show, on Radio National for eight years.Prior to that she worked on the ABC's Country Hour program in Victoria, Tasmania and outback Queensland.She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee of Ecos the CSIRO's magazine on science, environment and sustainability.
Alexandra is a Vincent Fairfax Fellow and has won a number of awards including The 3rd World Water Forum Journalists Competition, Japan 2003 and the United Nations of Australia World Environment Day Award for Radio 2004.She has received scholarships which have taken her to the United States, Africa, the Pacific Islands and Asia.She is a member of the Italian Green Accord Environmental Journalists Forum.
She has a science degree majoring in zoology and psychology, and first class honours in environmental studies.She spent a couple of years writing a PhD on environmental communication before leaving it to work in the field.In the early nineties Alexandra attracted national media attention for her research into pollution associated with the Mt Lyell copper mine on Tasmania's west coast.During the same period she played an integral role in the establishment of the French black truffle industry in that state
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