Heather is a veteran traveller to China. Since 1984 she has made 25 trips specifically to photograph the natural world in this vast country. Green China is her most ambitious book project involving 7 month-long trips exploring deserts, forests, wetlands, rocky coastlines and scaling mountains for alpine flowers. This voyage of discovery passed through verdant bamboo forests, across scorching deserts, inside spectacular caves, to hot and humid rainforests and taiga forests with Siberian tigers in sub-zero temperatures.

The images showcase the rich diversity of China’s wildlife from the endangered snub-nosed monkey, the Chinese sturgeon and the giant salamander; gaudy pheasants and peacocks; important medicinal plants and exquisite alpine flowers. The wildlife shots are interspersed with stunning views of sweeping habitats, plunging waterfalls, seasonal forests and dramatic karst peaks.

Heather also covers nature in Chinese art, the plant hunters and China’s national treasure - the panda. Green China is a celebration of China’s natural heritage.