Author David Lindenmayer is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, the Australian National University in Canberra. He has worked as a forest ecologist and wildlife biologist for almost 20 years and now runs large-scale research projects in the wet forests of Victoria and the forests and woodlands of southern New South Wales. He is regarded by many as Australia's pre-eminent authority on the ecology, behaviour and conservation of marsupial gliders.