I specialise in endangered flying fox fruit bats, focusing on the conservation value to environmental biodiversity and human economy through their keystone pollination activity.

Prior to the Fellowship I had worked in Australia as a wildlife rescuer and educator over several years. Having learned of the differing threats faced by these important endemic mammals in continental Australia and South Pacific Island colonies, I set out to encourage awareness internationally.

The Fellowship gave me the opportunity to extend the educational scope beyond hands-on rescue. Through visual arts, writing, research and education I make solid scientific fact, gained from working alongside world-authority conservation biologists, blend into accessible popular science for all ages, from children to policymakers, scientists to royal landowners.

Though disability has now curtailed some active aspects of expedition work, I sell photos and continue consultancy to educate about the ever-worsening and maligning threats to fruit bats and the importance of understanding the dependence humanity has on them.