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Edward Parker has been photographing and reporting on environmental issues around the world for more twenty years. His work has taken him to more than 40 countries and he has worked for many years with organizations that include the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-UK), the World Wildlife Fund International (WWF-International), Tropical Forest Trust, the Forest Stewardship Council, and the Tree Woodland Trust.
He is particularly well-known for his sensitive photo-documentaries of how people utilize natural resources in remote parts of the world from the Amazon Rainforest to the Namib Desert. He has been twice “highly commended” in the Wildlife photographer of the year and short-listed for Environmental Photojournalist of the year in 2002 at the British Environmental and Media Awards.
Edward Parker has been involved in many book projects and he has written or co-written more than 30 books, some of which have been published in other languages including German, French, Japanese, Chinese and Dutch. His publications include ANCIENT TREES – TREES THAT LIVE FOR A THOUSAND YEARS (re-published September 2012), which he photographed and co-wrote. More recently he wrote and provided the photographs for PHOTOGRAPHING TREES by Kew Gardens.
He is well known for his work on environmental education and for campaigning for the protection of ancient trees and tropical forests in particular. He was recently Project Manager for the Lottery-funded Ancient Tree Hunt at the Woodland Trust which recorded, with the help of more than 100 partners and the general public, over 100,000 ancient, veteran and notable trees across the UK.
Edward Parker lives in Dorset and divides his time between photography, writing, lecturing and running photographic courses at locations such as Kew Gardens.
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