Keith Muir explains how his career - a wilderness life - explains how he made teamwork, unity, good policy, perseverance, seizing every opportunity and non-partisan politics work for nature conservation.
He says his success came from 3 points:
- Conservation groups working in partnership, on agreed goals;
- Making opportunities out of the events along the way; and
- Working as much as possible in a bi-partisan manner so that the gains stuck.
The talk covers - the campaign to protect and expand Royal National Park; how the push to reserve the Nattai Wilderness led to a state-wide wilderness campaign; applying past experience in a period of high energy when wilderness declaration extended across the NSW coastal ranges and the Greater Blue Mountains were inscribed on the World Heritage list; then how Wilderness campaign continued; and finally the Gardens of Stone campaign.
Keith says it was all a lot of hard work and fun, with fantastic bushwalks. What a Wilderness Life indeed!