Dear Peter … Everything you have done has helped in the battle that we are all trying to wage, to prevent the despoliation of the earth & to help heal the damage we have already done. Your new as yet unpublished book on the Australian rainforest, I’m sure, will be a further help in this battle…
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Photographing Tancho (丹頂) in Hokkaido
In February this year I went to Japan with my kids, and we travelled through the mainland's north and across to Hokkaido. It was a wonderful trip!One of my main objectives was to photograph Tancho (Red-crowned) Cranes, and Stellar's Sea-Eagles in...
CYA Conference
I am delighted to be presenting for the first time at the wonderful CYA Writers and Illustrators Conference in Brisbane (Australia) on 11th July. The Children, Young Adult, and Adult Writers’ and Illustrators’ Conference (CYA) is designed for...
Book Release – The Long Road Home
[Pre-Release announcement from publisher (Disappearing Ink)]Whitley Award-Winning Naturalist Peter Rowland Announces New Memoir: The Long Road Home Author to Appear at the Australian Book Fair, Melbourne, 21-22 February 2026 MELBOURNE, VIC -...
30 years of A Photographic Guide to Birds of Australia
Thirty years ago today, on June 26, 1995, my first book as a sole author, "A Photographic Guide To Birds of Australia," was released. It’s a moment that fills me with immense gratitude and prompts a journey back through a life shaped by the wild...
I acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waterways where I work and live, to their cultures, and to their Elders past and present. I celebrate the First Nations Peoples’ unique cultural and spiritual relationship to Country, and acknowledge the important role First Nations People throughout Australia have played and continue to play.