seafood consumption. He is a patron of the Stop the Toad Foundation and contributed to the whaling debate with an article on the Last Whale website. He is also a prominent advocate of the Save Moreton Bay organisation, the Environment Defender's Office, the Australian Wildlife Conservancy and the Marine Conservation Society, with which he is campaigning against shark finning. In 2003, Winton was awarded the inaugural Australian Society of Authors (ASA) Medal in recognition for his work in the campaign to save the Ningaloo Reef. Winton keeps away from the public eye, unless promoting a new book or supporting an environmental issue. He told reviewer Jason Steger "Occasionally they wheel me out for green advocacy stuff but that's the only kind of stuff I put my head up for." In 2016, species of fish from the Kimberley region was named after him. In March 2017 Winton was named patron of the newly established Native Australian Animals Trust. He has always featured the environment and the Australian landscape in his writings. The trust was established to help research and teaching about native animals and their environment. Associate Professor Tim Dempster, School of Biosciences is quoted as saying, "Australia has a unique and charismatic animal fauna, but our state of knowledge about it is poor. Indeed species can go extinct before we even know of their existence. We have much to learn from our fauna, and a pressing need to do so." Bibliography Novels An Open Swimmer (1982) Shallows (1984) That Eye, The Sky (1986) In the Winter Dark (1988) Lockie Leonard (1990-1997) Cloudstreet (1991) The Riders (1994) Blueback (1997) Dirt Music (2001) Breath (2008) Eyrie (2013) The Shepherd's Hut (2018) Short fiction Collections Scission (1985) A Blow, A Kiss (1985) Minimum Of Two (1987) The Collected Shorter Novels of Tim Winton (1995) The Turning (2004) Stories Plays Rising Water (2011) Signs of Life (2012) Shrine (2013) Children's books Jesse (1988) Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo (1990) The Bugalugs Bum Thief (1991) Lockie Leonard, Scumbuster (1993) Lockie Leonard, Legend (1997) The Deep (1998) – picture book illustrated by Karen Louise Non-fiction Land's Edge (1993) – with Trish Ainslie and Roger Garwood Local Colour: Travels in the Other Australia (1994), republished in the U.S. as Australian Colors: Images of the Outback (1998) – photography and text by Bill Bachman, additional text by Tim Winton Down to Earth: Australian Landscapes (1999) – text by Tim