Philip Goddard, born 1942 in Harrow Weald, Middlesex, UK, has always had a great, wide and penetrating natural history interest and affinity with wild places, frequently getting out hiking, photographing nature and wild scenery and nowadays making sound recordings of a wide range of natural soundscapes, many of which he has put up on commercial CDs. He is also a symphonic composer, with ten symphonies and various orchestral, choral and instrumental works to his name. However, a particular priority of his for some years now has been developing and maintaining a particularly challenging website