Noel Shaw

Noel James Shaw (born 5 December 1929, Melbourne), is an Australian author, artist and education reformer. He grew up in St Arnaud, Victoria, and moved to Melbourne in his late teens. He worked as a paleontologist for the National Museum of Victoria. He studied geology at Melbourne University before moving to Teaching.
Artistic Work
In the 1950s in worked with a number of prominent artists and authors who influenced his art work, at Monsalvat in Eltham. These included Alan Marshall, Peter Laycock, Clifton Pugh and Matcham Skipper. His works are held in many private and public collections.
He contributed to many exhibitions in the Eltham and Hurstbridge area of Victoria.
Education work
He worked in a number of school based positions in the Melbourne area before moving to the Gould League of Bird Lovers, a fully funded external organisation of the Victorian Education Department.
It was in this organisation that he started his major life work of developing environmental education for Victorian and Australian schools. He was seminal in moving the work of the organisation from bird observing to wider environmental education. In 2009 the Gould League awarded him a life memdership for services to the organisation and his environmental work
Books and writing
In the early 1970s he started work first as editor then author of 10 books related to natural history and environmental education for the Gould League of Victoria and later Nelson publishing.In addition he edited a new magazine for the Gould league survival
Selected publications
* Birds of Victoria, Urban areas
* Birds of Victoria, The Ranges
* Birds of Victoria, Ocean Bays and Beaches
* Birds of Victoria, Inland Waters
* Birds of Victoria, The Dry Country
* Birds of Victoria, Rare Species
* Birds of Victoria, The Farmlands
* Australian Mammals; a field guide for News South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.
* Platypuses and other primitive Mammals
* Koalas, Wombats and Possums.

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