MR DAVID EASTBURN David Eastburn has been involved in education, environmental communication, photojournalism, and capacity realisation with rural communities in Papua New Guinea and Australia for 30 years. More than half of that time has involved working with the residents of the Murray-Darling Basin through the Commonwealth Schools Commission Country Areas Program, the River Murray Commission, the Murray-Darling Basin Commission, and as a consultant to communities, government and industry. He has a Masters degree in Environmental Education (Thesis ...the search for the story-teller and the artist.), a Graduate Diploma in Educational Technology (educational print, radio, television/video, multi-media, and computers), and has studied Anthropology and Multi-cultural education. David was responsible for the development and implementation of a large scale, multi-faceted environmental communication-capacity realisation strategy for the Murray-Darling Basin Commission (1988 -1998), which was acknowledged with major environmental, communication and educational awards. Several elements of the program have been acclaimed as landmarks in environmental communication, including the video program, publications, and two large scale community capacity realisation programs - 'Special forever' and 'Reading the Land'. Recent activities have included the development of a native fish communication strategy and support materials for Freshwater Ecology Section, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research (2000-2001). The development of interpretive signage to explain wetland rehabilitation and material to help visitors to 'read the landscape'at the Banrock Station Wine and Wetland Centre in SA (2000-2001). Currently he is working with a large scale organic farming community on the lower Murrumbidgee floodplain to raise the profile of a model of community-driven, ecologically friendly, and economically profitable sustainable land utilisation. This includes the facilitation of a participative learning process to help address the global issue of landscapes and communities at the bottom ends of rivers 'dying of thirst' due to upstream diversions, a nd nominating the area as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Last updated 21 November 2002