Ferret Fred's Friends is a series of enhanced ebooks, designed for todays youth who are interested in expanding their understanding of the natural world in a more personal way.

I believe they will want to journey along with Ferret Fred and learn about the new friends he makes as he travels through the countries that make up our world.

My latest Turtle Dreams performative documentary depicting the changes that are affecting a section of coastline in the Florida panhandle due to climate change.

As a former sea turtle patroller I witnessed the profound changes this erosion was having on the sea turtle nesting habitat.

The pictures in this documentary were taken by me while performing my nesting patrols and are just examples of the growing hardships these magnificent creatures endure to lay their eggs.

I have traveled and experienced nature's beauty and power in many different parts of the world.

Worked with various NGOs as president, volunteer and lobbyist to help advance their causes.

Organized and participated in various studies and research projects designed to gather crucial ecological and biological information.

Currently working on an wildlife habitat and ecology research project, and running several wildlife studies that are directly connected to this project.

These and other hands-on, real life experiences form the basis of my books, articles and video productions which I believe will show just how little we know about our environment, how much research and data collection is desperately needed, and enhance our youths' desire to experience nature for themselves and in turn understand how important it is to protect.

"Nature-deficit disorder" is the loss of connection children increasingly feel with the natural world. It is not a clinically recognized condition, but rather a term to evoke a loss of communion with other living things. Nature-deficit disorder affects "health, spiritual well-being, and many other areas, including people's ability to feel ultimately alive."

I believe that all children should have equal opportunity to experience nature and a family's ability to pay should not be a deterrent to gaining these experiences and that nature-deficit disorder is something we can eradicate.

That is why I provide free distribution of my nature based books to the poor and under-privileged through my Wild Side of Art Educational Outreach program. I believe that these books will provide children with the inspiration to want more contact with nature, to make a greater investment in nature and to learn that protecting the natural world is not only required to save the creatures that we share this world with, but for our own survival as well.