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Carly Parker standing among thick bush and blackberry in early morning sun, holding a set of antlers above her head

The Parkers

Carly Parker

Hunter. Educator. Storyteller.

Always curious about what lies beyond the next ridge.

The outdoors was never meant to be something Carly simply watched from the sidelines.

What began as a desire to learn has grown into hunting, wild food, teaching, filmmaking, podcasting and helping other women discover that there is a place for them in the outdoors too.

Carly is happiest when there is something new to learn, somewhere new to explore or a story worth telling.

Her own journey

The Pursuit

Hunting for Carly is as much about the process as the result — learning country, reading animals, making mistakes, improving skills and earning the moments that eventually come together.

The long walks, early mornings, failures and unexpected moments are often the parts worth remembering most. She is still learning, and says so freely — there is always more country to understand and something she has not done yet.

Carly Parker walking a bush track carrying a pack and rifle
Walking in, before light lifts
Carly Parker kneeling quietly beside a sambar deer in long grass at the end of a hunt
The end of a long, patient hunt
Carly Parker in open eucalypt country beside a harvested goat
Country learned the slow way
Carly Parker laughing with a mug of coffee in hand at camp, vehicles and rooftop tent behind her

Women Who Hunt

Opening the door

Women Who Hunt grew out of something Carly kept noticing: plenty of women wanted to hunt, and almost none of them knew where to begin. No one to ask, nowhere obvious to start, and a lot of unspoken rules.

So she built the door she wished had been there — courses, education, a podcast and a community where questions are welcome. The goal is practical and unglamorous: give women real knowledge and enough confidence to take the first steps of their own journey.

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Field to table

What the country gives

The experience does not finish when the hunt does. Carly has become increasingly passionate about understanding what happens afterwards — breaking down an animal properly, learning cuts, cooking it well and sharing it with people around a table.

Wild food is the part of the story that makes sense to almost everyone. It is also, she reckons, where the respect really shows: nothing wasted, everything used, the whole journey from field to table honoured.

Carly Parker trimming and portioning wild venison at the kitchen bench
Breaking it down properly
Carly Parker back at the camp trailer at the end of a hunt, holding antlers
Back at camp, work still to do
Carly and Glenn Parker working together at the reloading bench at home
Preparation, long before the hunt
Carly Parker at her desk working across three screens on Women Who Hunt and Wildheart Pursuits stories

Storyteller

Telling the story

Wildheart Pursuits is where it all comes together for Carly — hunting, filmmaking, wild places, wild food and the people met along the way.

The point was never to show a run of successful hunts. It is the travel, the weather, the wrong turns, the conversations, the country, the cooking and the hours around camp that make an adventure worth watching. That is the story she wants to tell.

Carly, Glenn and Ethan Parker travelling together through open country at sunset

Family

Better together

At the centre of it all is family.

Wildheart Pursuits is something Carly, Glenn and Ethan are building together — a reason to travel further, learn more, experience extraordinary places and keep telling the stories they find along the way.

Meet Glenn Meet Ethan
Carly Parker standing in sunlit Australian bush at the edge of thick country

There will always be another ridge.

And Carly will probably want to know what’s on the other side.

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