Tim Low

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Tim Low is a popular Australian author of articles and books on nature and conservation.

He has written six books. The New Nature: Winners & Losers in Wild Australia (2002) looks at how animals and plants sometimes respond to human impacts in a positive way. It won the Westfield/Waverley Award for Literature and was listed as a number one best seller in New Scientist (Australia).

Feral Future: The Untold Story of Australia's Exotic Invaders (1999) was published in Australia and republished in North America. It was listed by New Scientist (Australia) as a best-seller.

Bush Medicine (1990) and Bush Tucker (1990) were coffee table books, both of which won national prizes. They featured Tim’s photography as well as his text.

Wild Food Plants of Australia (1989) has been through more than ten printings and remains the standard field guide to wild edible plants in Australia.

Wild Foodplants of Australia and New Zealand (1985) is a guide to cooking and eating weeds.

For twenty years Tim wrote a column in Nature Australia, Australia’s leading nature magazine. He now writes regularly for Australian Geographic and Wingspan and has has contributed to many other magazines.

Tim became very interested in reptiles as a teenager and discovered several new species of lizard. He named the chain-backed dtella (Gehyra catenata) and had the dwarf litter-skink (Menetia timlowi) named after him.

He works as a freelance environmental consultant, writer and photographer, serves on government committees, and does public speaking and conservation advocacy. He is the patron of Rainforest Rescue. Tim lives in Brisbane.