Past Community Cafe events
Monday 2nd February 2026
Max Campbell, President of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (FNCV) and an expert on wildlife invertebrates, provided a fascinating insight into the interactions and interdependency of the huge variety and numbers of all living organisms, from viruses to mammalia such as ourselves.
We often hear of examples of wildlife that are extinct or endangered but have limited understanding of their interdependence with other life forms. Just one example is the increasingly recognised dependence we humans have on a healthy gut microbiome.