Justine E. Hausheer is an award-winning science writer for The Nature Conservancy, covering the innovative research conducted by the Conservancy’s scientists in the Asia Pacific region. She has a degree from Princeton University and a master’s in Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting from New York University. Justine’s favorite stories take her into pristine forests, desolate deserts, or far-flung islands to report on field research as it’s happening. When not writing, you can find her traipsing after birds, spotlighting for mammals, and exploring the wild places around her home on Australia’s Sunshine Coast.
Justine E. Hausheer
Science Writer
Featured Stories from Justine
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Extreme Birding: The Strange Magic of Pelagics
12 hours on a small boat with 16 strangers, all to see a handful of seabirds? Welcome to the strange magic of pelagic birding.
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Satellite Tracking the Pacific’s Most Endangered Leatherback Turtles
A new satellite tagging study in the Solomon Islands will help protect critically endangered leatherback sea turtles.
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Bowerbirds: Meet the Bird World’s Kleptomaniac Love Architects
They display, they dance, and they collect baubles like a jealous hoarder. Meet Australia’s incredible bowerbirds.
All Stories from Justine
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Three New Natural History Books for August
Stunning photos of fungi, botanical essays, and stories from the Australia's natural history collections.
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Climate Mitigation Depends on Seed-Dispersing Wildlife
A new study finds that the loss of seed-dispersing species in tropical forests more than halves the potential for areas of natural regrowth to sequester carbon.
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Meet the Tuatara: New Zealand’s Bizarre Ancient Reptile
Join ecologists as they search for tuatara — one of the world's most unique reptiles —in the Brook Waimārama Sanctuary.
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Protecting the Plains-wanderer, Australia’s Odd Inland Shorebird
Grazing lands can help protect one of the most unique — and endangered — birds in the world: the Australian plains-wanderer.
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Young Forests Are an Overlooked Climate Solution
New research by TNC scientists provides the first detailed picture of the carbon removal value of naturally regrowing forests
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Meet the Kangaroos That Live in Trees
Tree-kangaroos are one of the world’s most bizarre and fascinating mammals.
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Tracking the Tiny Bats of Aotearoa
Join scientists for a night of bat trapping in New Zealand, where predator control is helping to protect the country's only endemic land mammal.
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The Only Birding Apps You’ll Ever Need
Having one (or all) of these apps on your mobile phone or tablet is like having an expert birding guide by your side at all times.
