Tim is Australian mammologist, palaeontologist, environmentalist, conservationist and explorer. In 2013 he founded, and is chief councilor, of the Australian Climate Council, Australia’s largest and most successful crowdfunded organisation. He is currently Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Climate Change at the Australian Museum, Sydney.  Tim has taught at Harvard University and has published over 140 peer-reviewed scientific papers and has named 25 living and 50 fossil mammal species, many of which are from PNG. His 32 books include ‘The Future Eaters’ and ‘The Weather Makers’. He has made numerous documentaries and regularly writes for the New York Review of Books.