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Naturalist on the Bibbulmun

Naturalist on the Bibbulmun is the story of one man’s journey with his son through this ancient and extraordinary corner of the world.

The Bibbulmun Track is a world-class walking trail that runs just over 1000km through the forests and coastal heaths of southwestern Western Australia, from the towns of Kalamundain in the North to Albany in the South.

The biodiversity is so extensive that it is impossible to provide a comprehensive field guide to the Bibbulmun Track. Nevertheless, the author musters his expertise in ecology and evolutionary biology to document the animals and plants found during the Noongar seasons of kambarang and birak, from November to January, with colour photographs throughout.

In this book we learn how evolution has shaped the extraordinary diversity of animals and plants in this corner of the world, the importance of biodiversity in providing the stable ecosystem in which we live and prosper, and the serious impacts to that stability imposed by our increasing overexploitation of this ancient and fragile landscape.

Naturalist on the Bibbulmun is both a witness statement of the current state of the natural regions of southwestern WA, and a call to arms to protect for our future generations what little remains of one of the world’s most extraordinary natural habitats.