‘I’ve got the best job in the world’, prestigious Eureka prize winner says
by Graham Readfearn from Environment | The Guardian on (#6E3CN)
Prof Richard Kingsford and his Waterbirds Aerial Survey team's work over forty years has influenced Murray-Darling Basin conservation and helped create three new national parks
When it's perfect flying weather and it's still, I have to pinch myself," says Prof Richard Kingsford. I've got the best job in the world."
At the start of October for almost 40 years, Kingsford has climbed into a small plane to lead one of the world's biggest and longest-running wildlife surveys, scanning and recording waterbirds across almost a third of the Australian continent.
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