Canopy Meg

I listened to a most entertaining episode of ABC Conversations, an interview with ‘Canopy Meg’. Meg Lowman is a biologist and ecologist who calls herself an ‘arbornaut’. Her specialty is the world of the canopy of tall forests, and the largely unknown and unnoticed life that flourishes there. She calls it the eighth continent.
 
Meg learned to climb trees in the Royal National Park near Sydney forty years ago. Nowadays there are quite a few tree top walks in Australia, including this one in the Valley of the Giants, which is in the Walpole-Nornalup National Park in the south of Western Australia. We visited in 2010. In this part of the park there are 400 year old red tingle trees (Eucalyptus jacksonii), found nowhere else in the world.