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Steph Cahalan moved to Tasmania in 1995 to undertake Environmental Studies at the University of Tasmania. Her move coincided with the start of a campaign to stop a road through the Tarkine rainforest. Steph became one of the original Tarkine Tigers, a protest group renowned for direct action. She now works as an adviser to Greens Senator Bob Brown.
Bob Connolly is one of Australia's leading documentary makers. Working with his wife, the late Robin Anderson, he has made such internationally acclaimed films as Facing the Music, Rats in the Ranks and the Highland Trilogy as well as Franklin River Journey, and has won over 50 awards, including an Academy Award nomination.
Nancy Daiyi is an elder of the MakMak or White Eagle clan, whose lands lie within the Wagait floodplains southwest of Darwin. Along with three other MakMak women, Nancy and her daughter Linda Ford are featured in the book Country of the Heart-An Indigenous Australian Homeland, which explores how the traditional custodians of this land are intrinsically entwined with their country.
David Hansen is Senior Curator of Art at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and curator of the major travelling exhibition, John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque. He is a former director of the Benalla Art Gallery in Victoria.
Tasmanian academic and poet Dr Peter Hay is the author of Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought. The founder of the Ecopolitics Association of Australasia, he has written and taught for many years in the area of environmental politics and was a senior adviser to the Federal Minister for Environment and Planning.
Jamie Kirkpatrick is Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Tasmania. His work as a conservation ecologist influences national policies on biodiversity and looks at the politics of environment as well as concepts such as 'wilderness' and 'scenery'.
One of Australia's best-loved cartoonists, Michael Leunig lives on a farm in eastern Victoria. His philosophical and poetic reflections on life have been published in numerous books and are seen regularly in The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The West Australian.
Biologist, environmentalist and writer Tim Low is the author of six books about nature and conservation, including Feral Future-The Untold Story of Australia's Exotic Invaders and The New Nature-Winners and Losers in Wild Australia.
A former environmental planner, Joan Masterman is one of Tasmania's leading tourism entrepreneurs. In the early 1990s she co-founded Freycinet Experience, an award-winning nature-based tourism project within Freycinet National Park on the state's east coast.
A Melbourne-based film producer, arts management consultant and lawyer, Michael McMahon's critically acclaimed documentaries include Sadness, Thomson of Arnhem Land, and Man Made-The Story of Two Men and a Baby as well as Wildness.
Tasmanian Scott Millwood is an independent writer and director of documentaries and new media, including the award-winning films Wildness and Proximity. In 1998, he co-founded and directed the Australian documentary festival, REAL: Life on Film.
As a young man, Romanian-born Antonius Moscal migrated to Tasmania to search for 'true' wilderness, which he did not believe existed in post-war Europe. A keen botanist for 50 years, he has journeyed to the most remote parts of the state to describe its flora. His quest was immortalised in the documentary Franklin River Journey.
Sawmiller Pavel Ruzicka has worked in the Tasmanian bush for 30 years. An advocate of forest management for multiple uses, he practises selective harvesting and now specialises in supplying timbers to artists, craftsmen and fine furniture makers.
As well as art reviewer for The Age, Peter Timms has been an exhibition curator, gallery director and consultant. He has written widely on the arts, including editing a collection of essays, The Nature of Gardens.
Danielle Wood is the author of The Alphabet of Light and Dark, a Vogel award-winning novel that explores the relationships between people and place. A journalist and radio producer, she has reported extensively on environmental matters in Tasmania and Western Australia.