Wilderness consultancy

Martin Hawes has worked in the field of wilderness advocacy and management for over 30 years. He has extensive experience in the design, survey, monitoring and management of remote-area walking tracks, and in the assessment and mapping of wilderness values. His recent projects have included:

• Preparing the Tasmanian Government's assessment of the wilderness values of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (2016)
• Preparing a walking track management plan for the Cradle Mountain daywalks area (2018)
• Co-authoring the book Refining the definition of wilderness: Safeguarding the experiential and ecological values of remote natural land (2019)
• Appearing as an expert witness on wilderness values to the RMPAT appeal hearing on the proposed Lake Malbena ecotourism development (2019)
• Co-authoring a submission on wilderness values to the 2020 review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act

See Academic publications for further details.