Ian Fraser

Who is Ian Fraser?

Ian Fraser is an Australian naturalist, conservationist and author, based in Canberra, where he arrived from Adelaide in January 1980.

Since 1997 he has presented a fortnightly natural history show on Canberra ABC Radio, and teaches bird and other natural history courses to adult students at theANU Centre for Continuing Education.

He has been running the educational Environment Tours program - natural history bus-based tours throughout Australia - in association with the Canberra environment movement since 1984, and more recently has worked for Chris Carter of Time Travel Australia leading natural history tours to South America.

He was awarded the Australian Plants Award by the Australian Native Plants Society in 2001, and the Australian Natural History Medallion in 2006. In 2011 his book A Bush Capital Year, written with artist Peter Marsack, was awarded a Whitley Certificate for Best Regional Zoology by the Royal Zoological Society of NSW.

Since 2002 he has written a monthly essay on birds for Gang-gang, the Newsletter of the Canberra Ornithologists Group.

He has served on the Australian Capital Territory Natural Resources Management Advisory Committee, advising the ACT government on biodiversity issues, since 1984, and has chaired it since 2005.