Glenn Mitchell Wightman PSM (born 1961)[1] is an ethnobotanist working for the Department of Environment Parks and Water Security,[2] in Palmerston.
[3] He works closely with various aboriginal language groups to document plant and animal names and their usage in the culture.
[8][9][3] Wightman was born in 1961 at Leongatha, Victoria,[10] and graduated from Monash University in 1982 with a BSc, majoring in botany and geology.
[11] The exhibition of prints was displayed in the Cowra Regional Art Gallery in central New South Wales in 2011.
[14] In the Australia Day Honours of 2011, he was awarded the Public Service Medal for "For outstanding public service to the maintenance of Indigenous languages and culture in the Northern Territory, particularly Indigenous biological knowledge of plants, animals and landscapes".