Penguin Books Australia

David Lindenmayer is Professor of Ecology and Conservation Science at the Fenner School for Environment and Society at the Australian National University. He has been passionate about the conservation of Australia's environment for over twenty-five years and runs large-scale and long-term projects in the Victorian forests, farmlands of the NSW south-west slopes, the national park system at Jervis Bay and the pine plantation system at Tumut in southern New South Wales. David has written more than 450 scientific articles on conservation biology, landscape ecology, wildlife biology, forest ecology and management and the restoration of Australia's woodlands. This is his eighteenth book. He has won many prestigious awards including the Whitely Award (three times), the inaugural DaimlerChrysler Prize for Environmental Research, the Eureka Prize for Environmental Research, the Australian Natural History Gold Medallion and the Bulletin's Award for Australia's Top Innovative Thinker in Environmental Science.