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About the Author
Tim Low is a biologist, environmental consultant, and best-selling author of seven books, including Feral Future, which inspired the formation of a conservation group, the Invasive Species Council, and Where Song Began, which became the first nature book ever to win the Australian Book Industry Award for best General Non Fiction. As a consultant he has written many reports about climate change and received a Churchill Fellowship to study its impacts on wildlife.
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