John Halkett

John Halkett’s last book: Jungle Jive: Sustaining the forests of Southeast Asia was released by Connor Court Publishing in 2016. This and his past five books traverse a wide range of topics, but all have trees at the centre of the narrative.

John runs a forest consultancy business in Sydney, Australia and has expertise in temperate and tropical forest management and forest-based industries. He has also worked in the United States, Canada, Chile, Papua New Guinea, across Southeast Asia, Myanmar, China and Africa.  He serves on forest and timber-related international and national boards and committees.