The life of pioneering conservationist Richard Henry

A trip into Dusky Sound in 1974 led to Victoria Jaenecke's lifelong connection with Richard Henry. Appointed in 1894 as caretaker of Dusky Sound's Resolution Island, Henry spent 14 years - much of it by himself - in the remote landscape where he fiercely defended kakapo and kiwi against a tide of mustelids sweeping the mainland. Jaenecke's parents John and Susanne Hill used Richard Henry's notes and letters to navigate their way through the sounds in the 70s - with a young Victoria in tow - and later published a biography on his life in 1987. Following the death of her mother in 2014, Jaenecke and her father last year published Letters of a Naturalist: The Field Accounts of Richard Henry of Resolution Island.