'If you have a degraded environment, you're impoverished': Justice Brian Preston

By Peter Hannam
Updated August 15 2015 - 10:08am, first published 9:56am
Justice Brian Preston, chief judge of the Land and Environment Court of NSW.  Photo: James Brickwood
Justice Brian Preston, chief judge of the Land and Environment Court of NSW. Photo: James Brickwood
Justice Brian Preston at the Botanic Gardens Restaurant. Photo: Dallas Kilponen
Justice Brian Preston at the Botanic Gardens Restaurant. Photo: Dallas Kilponen

During one summer in his youth, Brian Preston scaled the pinnacle of the highest Mayan pyramid at Tikal​ and was mesmerised as the Guatemalan jungle below came alive with toucans and monkeys at sunrise.

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