Wear the Story. Support the Forest

This is more than a store, It's a bridge between people and place.

A space where original designs, grounded in fieldwork and real encounters, help fund conservation and deepen connection to country.

Created by field ecologist and naturalist Clint Conner, The Forest’s Familiar, each piece reflects the quiet beauty, complexity, and interwoven lives of the Southern Jarrah Forest. From striking black cockatoos to subtle ecological cues, the work carries both urgency and reverence.

Here you’ll find apparel, educational materials, and thoughtful offerings that tell the stories of our native wildlife and ecosystems — their resilience, their fragility, and the essential roles they play.

This store is still in its infancy, with much more to come: new designs, resources, and tools for learning and connection are all on the way.

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About Clint - The Forest's Familiar

Clint Conner is a field ecologist and naturalist based in the Southern Jarrah Forest of Western Australia. He moves through country with presence, humility, and an eye attuned to the subtle shifts that reveal the forest’s deeper story.

His work spans far more than any single species. While black cockatoos feature prominently in the designs you see here, raising funds for a major on-ground research project, Clint’s passion, insights, and conservation efforts reach across the full web of local ecology. From tracking threatened marsupials and monitoring freshwater refuges to discovering new populations of threatened flora and uncovering long forgotten cultural sites, his connection to place is layered and lived.

Each design in this store is drawn from real moments in the field, inspired by Clint’s own photographs and experiences. They’re not artworks for their own sake, but tools for connection, a way to honour the land and help protect it.

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Real Work, Real Places

Clint’s current on-ground focus is the black cockatoos of the Southern Jarrah Forest — endangered and vulnerable species suffering rapid decline and facing mounting pressures from habitat loss, a shifting climate, and many other compounding threats.

Through fieldwork grounded in ecological understanding and quiet persistence, he’s working to fill crucial knowledge gaps — mapping nesting sites and monitoring breeding activity, identifying priority and under-valued habitats and forage, and tracking seasonal patterns to better inform and enhance conservation action across the region.

Funds from this store support direct, on-ground efforts...not admin, not overheads, not on-costs...just real work in real places, for species that urgently need it.

This is grassroots conservation, powered by presence, persistence, and community.

When you purchase from this store, you’re not just wearing a story, you’re helping write the next chapter.

Learn more about my current conservation work or DONATE here