featured

Peter Odekerken has always admired wildlife and he worked with CSIRO Wildlife Research in Canberra when he left school in 1969. However, he worked on rabbits and decided at the ripe old age of 18 to go to Africa to hopefully be involved in working with African animals. This didn’t eventuate, but he ended up...

Thirteen-year-old conservationist, environmental educator and photographer Spencer Hitchen has spent more than half of his life learning from many local, knowledgeable environmentalists.  Spencer’s thirst for knowledge about the natural world far exceeded the knowledge his parents could provide from books and the internet. They felt great relief when they found Noosa Parks Association’s Friday Environment Forum...