Geoffrey Law

Geoff Law has campaigned to protect wilderness areas for over 35 years and has intimate knowledge of Tasmania's threatened places and national parks. He helped defeat the logging company, Gunns, in its attempts to build a massive pulp mill in Tasmania and destroy oldgrowth forests. He was one of the Gunns 20, a group unsuccessfully sued by Gunns. He is a consultant on UNESCO World Heritage issues who has worked to protect threatened sites all over the world, including in Indonesia and Eastern Europe. Each year, he serves as a river guide on the Franklin River (which he helped to protect in the early 1980s) and has had outdoor adventures in the mountains of SE Asia, North America, Europe, Japan and the Himalayas. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Tasmania, researching World Heritage issues. In 2013 he was awarded membership in the order of Australia.