Felicity Wishart

Felicity Jane "Flic" Wishart (4 June 1965 – 19 July 2015) was an Australian conservationist and environmental activist.

Early life Wishart was born in the Melbourne suburb of Mitcham to parents of Scottish descent from Adelaide, South Australia. At the age of 17, she was arrested in Tasmania during an occupation protest against the Franklin Dam, and imprisoned for several days. In Queensland, she enrolled at Griffith University where she graduated with a Bachelor of Environmental Science.

Environmental activism After graduation, Wishart joined the Australian Conservation Foundation in Melbourne, where she was involved in the campaign to have Queensland tropical rain forests listed as World Heritage Sites.

Wishart returned to Queensland to serve as director of the Queensland Conservation Council between 2000 and 2004, where she led campaigns against land clearing. She returned to The Wilderness Society in 2004, where she was behind the society's climate change and marine conservation campaigns.