Craig Ward

Craig Ward is a marine professional; a dive instructor, zoologist and ship’s captain who holds a BSc from James Cook University, Cairns. For more than twenty years he has been involved in marine research and education throughout the Indo-Pacific, particularly the Northern Great Barrier Reef, the Kimberley, south-east Asia, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand. 
He became a wildlife keeper working with many native Australian species including crocodiles, snakes and cassowaries and wrote a number of public education presentations on topics such as wetlands, reptiles, jellyfish and conservation. In 2015 Craig published his first book ‘The Wet Tropics’, followed by The Kimberley- endemic frogs, reptiles, birds and mammals in 2017. 
Based in tropical northern Australia, Craig is actively involved in conservation research and runs an expedition service and luxury travel company. He spends much of the year travelling to remote parts of the world in search of rare animals with like-minded people who share his passion for nature and travel, and he goes out to sea as often as he can.