Australian ethnobiologist (born 1961).
Glenn Mitchell Wightman (born 1961) is an ethnobotanist working for the Department of Environment Parks and Water Security, in Palmerston. He works closely with various aboriginal language groups to document plant and animal names and their usage in the culture. In doing so, he has been helping to preserve some 48 Aboriginal languages in collaboration with some 252 Indigenous co-authors. He has also done biocultural work in Indonesia. Wightman was born in 1961 at Leongatha, Victoria, and graduated from Monash University in 1982 with a BSc, majoring in botany and geology. In 2008 he curated