WILD VETS ON THE MOVE
AG SOCIETY SPONSORED PROJECT
THE LETTER IN the gold frame on the wall is in mint condition, but its words are hard to decipher. “That’s what a 94-year-old’s handwriting looks like,” says Dr Stephen Van Mil, founder and CEO of the Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital (BBWH).
The letter is from Stephen’s “absolute hero”, Sir David Attenborough, to whom he wrote asking for his endorsement of a wildlife project documenting platypus activity in Victoria. The monotreme is said to be one of Sir David’s favourite animals, and although he declined the request for his support on that project, Stephen was
