Stephen Garnett

Stephen Garnett has been studying Australian birds since 1974. During the 1980s he worked on the "Handbook of Australian, Antarctic and New Zealand Birds, " and in 1990, with Joost Brouwer, he drafted the first review of Australia s threatened bird species. He wrote the first Action Plan for Australian Birds in 1992 and the second Action Plan, in association with Gabriel Crowley, in 2000. He has studied and written about many threatened Australian bird species, most notably the Golden...See more

Stephen Garnett has been studying Australian birds since 1974. During the 1980s he worked on the "Handbook of Australian, Antarctic and New Zealand Birds, " and in 1990, with Joost Brouwer, he drafted the first review of Australia s threatened bird species. He wrote the first Action Plan for Australian Birds in 1992 and the second Action Plan, in association with Gabriel Crowley, in 2000. He has studied and written about many threatened Australian bird species, most notably the Golden-shouldered Parrot and the Kangaroo Island Glossy Black-Cockatoo, and helped bring the idea of Important Bird Areas to Australia. He also works on natural-resource based livelihoods in northern Australia and South-East Asia. He is a research professor at Charles Darwin University in Darwin. See less