Geoff Law

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Geoff Law is a Tasmanian author, conservationist and environmental activist. He is author of works about conservation and environment in Tasmania.

Law has campaigned for wilderness and conservation causes in the West and South West Tasmania for over thirty years.{{Citation | author1=Law, Geoff | title=Will our PM -Prime Minister- save Tasmania's forests? | journal=Habitat Australia | publication-date=December 1986 | volume=14 | issue=6 | pages=17–18, 23–24 | issn=0310-2939 }}

In 2002, Law was awarded the Wild magazine Environmentalist of the Year award. Law become a Member of the Order of Australia for his work to protect Tasmania's outstanding natural environment in 2013.{{Cite web|url=https://www.australianwalkingholidays.com.au/West-Coast-Tasmania/Guided/Franklin-River-World-Heritage-Expedition-with-Geoff-Law|title = Australian Walking Holidays | Australian Hiking Tours & Cycling Trips}}

Law has collaborated with Bob Brown.{{Citation | author1=Law, Geoff | author2=Brown, Bob, 1944- | author3=Australian Greens | title=The river runs free : exploring & defending Tasmania's wilderness | date=30 June 2008 | publication-date=2008 | publisher=Penguin Group Australia | isbn=978-0-670-07245-3 }}{{Citation | author1=Law, Geoff | author2=Brown, Bob, 1944- | author3=Australian Greens, (issuing body) | title=Western Tasmania : a place of outstanding universal value : proposed extensions to the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area | publication-date=2009 | publisher=[Australian Greens] | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/33472242 | accessdate=5 March 2019 }} Also each has paid the other compliments publicly.* {{Citation | author1=Brown, Bob | author2=Australian Greens | title=Geoff Law: a great campaigner for Tasmania | publication-date=2008-12-04 | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/193052672 | accessdate=5 March 2019 }}{{Citation | author1=Law, Geoff | title=Bob Brown: Australia's best-known environmental crusader | journal=Wild (Prahran, Vic) | publication-date=1999 | issue=72 | pages=35–39 | issn=1030-469X }}

Law has also been acclaimed for his activism.{{Cite news|url=https://www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmania/conservationists-geoff-law-and-heidi-douglas-named-world-heritage-heroes/news-story/b6d62cbea0e29be83b53e11187407def?nk=c522638c5ab37a6a2e466e9e28a721d8-1551754576|title = Our World Heritage 'Heroes'|newspaper = The Mercury|date = 29 June 2015}}

Law has also written of the threats to wilderness in western and south western Tasmania.{{Citation | author1=Law, Geoff | title=Tasmania's green heritage: a guide to Gondwanaland | journal=BBC Wildlife | publication-date=1986 | volume=4 | issue=6 | pages=274–275 | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/39161487 | accessdate=17 November 2018 }}{{Citation | author1=Law, Geoff | title=The Battle of Farmhouse Creek. -Reprinted from Multinational Monitor, Oct 1987- | journal=Not Man Apart | publication-date=1988 | issue=Jan/ Feb 1988 | pages=9 | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/39137903 | accessdate=17 November 2018 }}{{Citation | author1=Law, Geoff | title=Tasmania's wilderness: the battle continues | journal=Wild (Prahran, Vic) | publication-date=1990 | issue=35 | pages=46–50 | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/39113417 | accessdate=17 November 2018 }}{{Citation | author1=Law, Geoff | author2=Lea, Geoffrey | title=Tasmania : world heritage | publication-date=1996 | publisher=G. Lea | isbn=978-0-646-27079-1 }}