I am 70 years of age and have travelled widely throughout Australia, exploring a wide variety of this country’s unique landscapes.

Settling in the lovely Derwent Valley in retirement, I have a passion for Tasmania’s southwest wilderness, the buttongrass plains, lakes, rivers, and ancient forests, and all their inhabitants.

I am an artist, photographer, gardener (organic, natives and exotics), writer, poet, musician/composer.

I’m also an amateur ornithologist and a 25-year member of Birds Australia, with whom I form part of a large team that carries out constant bird surveys to help update The New Atlas of Australian Birds and the local database of Birds Tasmania.

I help co-ordinate bird excursions for southern Tasmania and for the Derwent Valley, and lead field trips.

All this experience has given me an understanding of the workings of all life forms, but also of the destructive forces being carried out in Tasmania’s ancient old growth forests, which for nearly forty years has seen massacre and cruelty of the worst kind and which hurts many within and outside the timber industry.

If it is in my strength and power to stop this madness, I will join forces with the many who know this destruction is so wrong and continue that work for as long as it takes.