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In this series we'll introduce you to some key people involved in building the Bruny Island field guide. Here, conservationist and Vice-President of the Bruny Island Environment Network James Bunker talks about the important work of BIEN and its many community projects.

In this series we'll introduce you to some key people involved in building the Bruny Island field guide. Here, specialist bird and ecology guide with Inala Nature Tours Cat Davidson talks about the power of personal connection to place - and falling in love with Nature.

In this series we'll introduce you to some key people involved in building the Bruny Island field guide. Here, geologist and convenor of the Bruny Island Environment Network Bob Graham talks about the hidden world you don't see through the tourist photos.

In this series we'll introduce you to some key people involved in building the Bruny Island field guide. Here, Inala Nature Tours owner Dr Tonia Cochran talks about the island's unique ecology, threatened species and place in the world.

In this series we'll introduce you to some key people involved in building the Bruny Island field guide. Here, Kuno Director and CEO Dr Phill Pullinger explains his vision for Kuno, how the guide works and building a caring community.

Bird ecologist Dr Eric Woehler once thought it would take about five years to travel around most of Tasmania’s beaches and survey their inhabitants. 31 years later, he has walked 450 beaches of Tasmania - and, he's still going.

Dr Eric Woehler has been asked a few times where his passion and interest came from. He grew up in Hobart in a caring home, but nature wasn’t something that was a thread in conversations. That inspiration happened at university.

“Every time, it’s like the first time. You’re just like a kid in the candy store when you see that much wildlife,” says veteran bird ecologist Dr Eric Woehler, of his more than 10 trips to Macquarie Island. Read about his journey.

Dr Eric Woehler says he doesn’t need to exaggerate what these tiny migratory bird species can do - “I can simply tell people the bird that sits in the cup of your hand will fly farther than the distance between the earth and the moon over its lifetime."

For ecologist/ornithologist and Birdlife Tasmania Convenor Dr Karen Dick, her love of nature comes from her South African childhood, a mother who rehabilitated wildlife and an unexpected encounter with the incredible secretarybird.

Karen Dick's love of seabirds goes back a long way to her university days. She is captivated by the big pelagics, who can live to a great age and spend most of their lives far out at sea. But these majestic creatures are also facing challenges.

Tasmania may be a tiny landmass compared to the Australian mainland, but it's home to 12 bird species you can't find anywhere else. Birds are everywhere you look, writes ecologist/orthinologist and BirdLife Tasmania Convenor Karen Dick.