Wild

FROM THE EDITOR

Inspiration

I’ve been thinking a lot about the Daintree lately. This is only partly because this issue of mag looks at—as the third in our year-long series on Australia’s great environmental battles—the campaign to save it. No, more importantly, I’m thinking of a road trip I once took there that changed my life.

When I was four, my parents loaded up our car and took me on a six-week trip to Cape Tribulation, camping all the way. Cape

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