Willing, Timothy David (Tim)   (1950 -  )

Born on 29 October 1950 in Mombasa, Kenya;

Tim has lived and worked in Broome, WA, for many years.

From 1980-1995 he was a horticulturist with Parks and Gardens, Shire of Broome, and developed his abiding interest in identifying and cultivating the Kimberley flora.

In 1996, he co-authored (with Kevin Kenneally and Daphne Edinger) Broome and beyond: plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula - a flora of the area north from Broome, for which the authors were awarded a CSIRO External Medal for Research Achievement.

From 1996-2003. Tim was Conservation Officer (West Kimberley) with the Department of Conservation and Land Management (now Department of Environment and Conservation), based in Broome.

During 2004 he was Acting Regional Leader (Nature Conservation) for CALM Kimberley.

Since 2005 he has been Expedition Guide for Pearl Sea Coastal Cruises on board their charter vessels Kimberley Quest 1 & 2.

Each year, Tim spends weeks in archives and libraries around Australia and the UK collating research as well as sourcing information online. It is Tim's widespread research exploration on the region that makes the reference library of Kimberley Quest so comprehensive.

Tim remains a keen collector of plants for the WA Herbarium's research and has an eye so finely tuned to new species that one was named after him by Lewington & Maslin in 2009 - Acacia willingii, a wattle.

Sources (2025): Extracted from:
https://tourismcouncilwa.com.au/advocacy-research/media-releases/individuals-recognised-excellence-tourism-0
Nuytsia 19(1): 63-75 (2009) p.73 - Acacia willingii Lewington & Maslin, sp. nov.
https://kimberleyquest.com.au/onboard-experience/naturalist-tim-willing/
https://thewest.com.au/travel/sharing-the-eco-passion-ng-ya-345871
https://db.huntbot.org/biographical_records/39007/
https://abr.business.gov.au/AbnHistory/View?id=34622534938 WILLING, TIMOTHY DAVID
Portrait Photo: https://kimberleyquest.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Tim-Willing.jpg.

Collecting localities for 'Willing, T.' from AVH (2025)

Data from 1,488 specimens