Contributors
Bobby-Jo Clow is a zookeeper and professional photographer. Her work has been featured in publications around the globe, including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Times, The New York Post, The Huffington Post, Paris Match and Africa Geographic. Her photography has also been featured on TV in the US and UK, and in the UK Sunday Times Best Animal Pictures of 2014. You can see more of Bobby-Jo’s work at https://www.facebook.com/bclowphotography.
David Blissett is a writer and winner of multiple awards for fiction. His work has been featured in various anthologies including Award Winning Australian Writing in 2011, 12 and 13. A passionate conservationist, David’s first non-fiction book, Snake Catcher (co-written with Tony Harrison) was released in August 2014, to expert acclaim. This was followed by Our Primate Family (co-written with Lou Grossfeldt and with a Foreword by Dr. Jane Goodall), which was released in June 2015.
Bradley Trevor Greive AM is a Tasmanian writer and artist, and the creator of such acclaimed works as Priceless – The Vanishing Beauty of a Fragile Planet and The Blue Day Book. He is the author of numerous New York Times best-sellers; his books are currently available in over 115 countries with total sales exceeding 25 million copies. He served in the Australian Army as a paratrooper platoon commander, was a feature cartoonist for The Sydney Morning Herald, is a former Polynesian rock-lifting champion and also took part in the Russian space program as a cosmonaut trainee. A passionate champion for wildlife and wild places, BTG is a Founding Governor of the Taronga Foundation, an Australasian organisation supporting wildlife conservation around the globe. In 2014, he was awarded the Order of Australia for his services to literature and wildlife conservation. He currently divides his time between Tasmania and Alaska. You can follow his latest adventures at www.facebook.com/AuthorBTG or Twitter @BradleyTGreive
Photo courtesy of Bradley Trevor Greive
Photo courtesy of Bradley Trevor Greive
John Roberts is paid by the Anantara Golden Triangle Elephant Camp and Resort to be Director of Elephants for the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation in Chiang Rai, Northern Thailand. He secured a degree in materials science and engineering from Bath University in the U.K. before volunteering in the Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Texas. He then pursued his interest in conservation in Northern Australia, followed by five years in Chitwan National Park, Nepal. John is also a trustee of the International Trust for Nature Conservation, and has contributed articles to several publications, including Bird Conservation Nepal. To find out more about John's work, click www.helpingelephants.org
John Roberts is paid by the Anantara Golden Triangle Elephant Camp and Resort to be Director of Elephants for the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation in Chiang Rai, Northern Thailand. He secured a degree in materials science and engineering from Bath University in the U.K. before volunteering in the Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Texas. He then pursued his interest in conservation in Northern Australia, followed by five years in Chitwan National Park, Nepal. John is also a trustee of the International Trust for Nature Conservation, and has contributed articles to several publications, including Bird Conservation Nepal. To find out more about John's work, click www.helpingelephants.org
Mark Tredinnick is an Australian poet, nature writer, writing teacher, and essayist. One of Australia’s most awarded writers of recent years, Mark was the winner in 2011 of the Montreal Poetry Prize and of the Cardiff Poetry Prize in 2012. He the author of thirteen books including Fire Diary, The Blue Plateau, Australia’s Wild Weather, The Little Red Writing Book,Bluewren Cantos and Almost Everything I Know. Mark’s other honours include two Premier’s literary awards, the Blake and the Newcastle Poetry Prizes, the Calibre Essay Prize, and a shortlisting for the Prime Minister’s Literary Prize. To read about Mark's recent work, click http://hippocketpress.org/canary/introduction.php
Nirmal Ghosh is an award-winning journalist, conservationist, writer, photographer and film-maker, now based in Thailand as Indochina Bureau Chief for The Straits Times. He has written three books on Indian wildlife and natural history, made films on elephants, and is a former member of the Steering Committee of the Government of India’s Project Elephant. To follow Nirmal's work, click http://www.Facebook.com/ST.Nirmal
Dr. Susan Canney is passionate about nature and seeking ways for humans and wildlife to live together. She is the Director of the Mali Elephant Project, having worked on a variety of nature conservation projects in Africa, Asia and Europe, and at the Green College Centre for Environmental Policy and Understanding. She is a Research Associate of the Department of Zoology at Oxford University, and has co-authored a recently published book on "Conservation" for Cambridge University Press, that takes a global perspective to bring conservation to the heart of sustainability and environmental policy. To find out more about the Mali Elephant Project, click http://www.wild.org/mali-elephants/
Tony Park is one of Australia’s most popular authors. His 12 African novels have all been acclaimed bestsellers. He has worked as a newspaper reporter in Australia and England, a government press secretary, a public relations consultant, and a freelance writer. Tony and his wife, Nicola, divide their time equally between Sydney, and southern Africa. To find out more about Tony and his bestsellers, click http://www.tonypark.net/.
Ashley Hay is a Brisbane-based writer. Her most recent novel, The Railwayman’s Wife, won the 2013 Colin Roderick Prize and the People’s Choice Award at the 2014 NSW Premier’s Prize, and was also longlisted for the Miles Franklin award. It will be published in the US in 2016. Her narrative non-fiction includes The Secret and Gum, and Herbarium and Museum in collaboration with visual artist Robyn Stacey. Her essays, short stories and journalism have appeared in anthologies and journals including the Griffith Review, The Monthly, Best Australian Essays, Best Australian Short Stories, and Australian Geographic. She was editor of Best Australian Science Writing 2014 and was awarded the 2015 Dahl Trust/Australian Book Review fellowship. For more information on Ashley's work click www.ashleyhay.com.au
Shannon Benson is an Australian photographer, author and documentary host. Based in South Africa, Shannon has a passion for wildlife and loves sharing that passion with others. A multi-award winner, Shannon’s photography has featured in various media around the world. She hosts a weekly documentary show on social media called Shannon Wild. She is also the author of three books on animal photography and reptile care. To find out more about Shannon's work, click www.shannonwild.com
Belinda Stewart-Cox OBE worked in publishing before reading Human Sciences at Oxford University. She then became a researcher in television before travelling to Thailand in 1986. Her focus is the forests and wildlife of west Thailand. Together with her colleague, the late Seub Nakhasathien, she wrote Thailand’s nomination for Thung Yui-Huai Kha Khaeng to become the first natural world heritage site in mainland Southeast Asia. In 1999 Belinda developed a project that would become the Elephant Conservation Network in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. She has an MSc in conservation and tourism from the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, Kent University, doing fieldwork with the Siria Maasai in Kenya as part of a human-elephant conflict mitigation project. In 2011, H.M. Queen Elizabeth awarded her an OBE for 25-years of service to nature conservation in Thailand and, unofficially, for her role as a lay ambassador for Britain. If you would like to learn more about Belinda, and the work of the Elephant Conservation Network, click www.ecn-thailand.org
With thanks to
Tanya Saunders, Douglas Groves, Rick Stevens, Anne Walsh, Piers Locke, Carolyn Der Vartanian, Christopher Reid, Gillian Crowhurst, John Michas, Lina Jabbour, Roger Lawrence, Sasha Templeton, Richard Moller, Anne Rimer, Amanzi Lawrence