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Fiona
Howie

Fiona Howie is a teacher of English and history with a Bachelor of Advanced Arts (Honours) from the University of Sydney. She lives on the sunny eastern shore of nipaluna/Hobart with her partner and their two sons.

Fiona Howie is a teacher of English and history with a Bachelor of Advanced Arts (Honours) from the University of Sydney. She lives on the sunny eastern shore of nipaluna/Hobart with her partner and their two sons.
Environment

In the dinosaurs’ garden

by Fiona Howie
22 Jan 2024

On lunawanna-allonah/Bruny Island lies a garden of primordial plants ...

Wilderness

Saving the world’s fastest parrot

by Fiona Howie
30 Apr 2023

Barefoot, Alex Wylie of Forestry Watch, points to the crown of a 92-metre Tasmanian blue gum named Mother Daughter. It is the tallest known blue gum in the world ...

Wilderness

The secret ancients

by Fiona Howie
22 Apr 2023

Picturesque Franklin, in the Huon Valley, is not a place you associate with wild nature ,,,

Environment

lutruwita, maireener and ill omens

by Fiona Howie
17 May 2022

Maireener/rainbow shell necklaces have an ethereal beauty, glinting with kaleidoscopic colours: mauve, soft shades of green and blue ...

We pay our respects to the Tasmanian Aboriginal people as the traditional and original owners and continuing custodians of lutruwita, and acknowledge elders past and present.

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