Dr Don Driscoll is a Fellow at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at The Australian National University and Chief Editor of the Ecological Society of Australia’s Hot Topics series. He has over 20 years of research experience in the field of wildlife dispersal, habitat loss and fragmentation. Don completed his PhD at the University of Western Australia where he studied the dispersal, population genetics and biology of threatened frogs. Since then he has studied plants, birds, beetles and reptiles in fragmented agricultural landscapes in NSW, the ACT and SA, and in naturally patchy landscapes in SW Tasmania.