Sarah Rees

Few people in Melbourne – let alone the rest of Australia – realise they’re living on the rim of one of the tallest forests on Earth, which provides the five million residents with almost all their drinking water. Victoria’s Central Highlands include the largest intact mountain ash forests in mainland Australia which once held the record for the tallest trees on earth. Professor David Lindenmayer convincingly makes the plea in this magnificent book – which features dozens of stunning photos – for a new national park to be created: the Great Forest National Park.… (meer)