Ian Fraser

Ian Thomas Fraser (born 1951) is an Australian naturalist, conservationist and author, based in Canberra, where he arrived from Adelaide in January 1980.

From 1997, he presented a fortnightly natural history show on ABC Radio Canberra, until the station discontinued the program at the end of 2016. He teaches bird and other natural history courses to adult students at the ANU Centre for Continuing Education. and since 2006 has worked for Chris Carter of Time Travel Australia leading natural history tours to South America (with single tours to Malaysian Borneo and Madagascar).

He was awarded the Australian Plants Award by the Australian Native Plants Society in 2001, and the Australian Natural History Medallion in 2006. In 2011 his book A Bush Capital Year, written with artist Peter Marsack, was awarded a Whitley Certificate for Best Regional Zoology by the Royal Zoological Society of NSW.

From 2002 to 2013, he wrote a monthly essay on birds – 100 in all – for Gang-gang, the Newsletter of the Canberra Ornithologists Group.

In 2016 he curated, by invitation, a three-month exhibition at the Canberra Museum and Gallery entitled Bush Capital, the natural history of the ACT.

He was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in 2018 "for service to conservation and the environment."

He is partnered to former journalist and ABC local radio presenter Louise Maher.