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    • Working with Aboriginal Victorians
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    • Protecting threatened species
    • Neds Corner Station
    • Conservation reserves
    • Current projects
  • Ways to give
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Head office

10 November 2022 by

Our people

Corinne Proske

Chief Executive Officer

Corinne Proske joined Trust for Nature as CEO in 2022.  She has a Masters in Environmental Science and a passion for conservation, sustainability and nature which has dominated her personal life and aspects of her career. Corinne has worked across the NGO, government and commercial sectors.

She is passionate about ensuring nonfinancial value is understood and included in how we do business and has a background in impact investing, microfinance and social procurement. Corinne has a passion for making a difference with her people leadership, advocacy and strategic marketing skills and she has a deep and long-standing commitment to nature—getting out and about as much as possible to camp, run and (tentatively) surf.

corinnep@tfn.org.au
(03) 8631 5888
5/379 Collins Street
Melbourne VIC 3000

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6 November 2020 by

Our people

A shared passion for protecting Victoria’s biodiversity has brought us together, but our success owes a lot to the commitment of our people, the ongoing support of our partners, and the generosity of private landholders.
Our People

Marnie Lassen

LLB (Hons), BA, GAICD

Statewide Operations Manager

As Statewide Operations Manager, Marnie manages our regional team’s operations. Prior to that role, as Conservation Markets Manager Marnie managed our Revolving Fund, Biodiversity Offsets Program, restoration program, conservation finance initiatives and policy work. In 2015, she participated in The Nature Conservancy’s Coda and Barbara Thomas Fellowship program, looking at how conservation is funded in North America. In 2017 she was selected to take part in the Kinship Conservation Fellows program in the United States, which examined how markets can be used to benefit the environment. Before joining Trust for Nature, Marnie worked as an environmental and planning lawyer in Los Angeles and in conservation organisations near Seattle.

A lifelong lover of the outdoors, Marnie says there is something special about the Australian bush. “I want to know that my kids will be able to enjoy it when they’re adults too. I’m privileged to work with an organisation that’s helping to make sure it will be protected forever.”

Outside work, Marnie is a volunteer at the community organisation Lord Somers Camp and Power House, and served as the Council President of her children’s primary school for four years.

marniel@tfn.org.au
(03) 8631 5812
0402 429 404
5/379 Collins Street
Melbourne VIC 3000

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Marnie Lassen

6 November 2020 by

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A shared passion for protecting Victoria’s biodiversity has brought us together, but our success owes a lot to the commitment of our people, the ongoing support of our partners, and the generosity of private landholders.
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Karen Tymms

Stewardship Coordinator for Victoria

Karen is Trust for Nature’s Stewardship Coordinator for the state.

karent@tfn.org.au
0417 327 514

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Karen Tymms

6 November 2020 by

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A shared passion for protecting Victoria’s biodiversity has brought us together, but our success owes a lot to the commitment of our people, the ongoing support of our partners, and the generosity of private landholders.
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Dr Doug Robinson

Conservation Science Advisor, BSc (Hons), PhD (Zoology)

Doug is a conservation biologist who has been involved with the delivery of environmental protection projects across Victoria for more than 25 years, working for a range of organisations in a professional and voluntary capacity. He has been closely involved with campaigns to establish additional protected areas in the box-ironbark and red gum woodland regions of Victoria, and along the Broken, Boosey and Nine Mile Creeks; been actively involved in the protection of the Grey-crowned Babbler and woodland birds; and worked with landholders and community groups to achieve enduring conservation outcomes on private and public land. More recently he led the team that developed Trust for Nature’s first Statewide Conservation Plan for private land in Victoria. He continues to provide scientific input into internal and external conservation strategy, while engaging with a wide spectrum of stakeholders.

In 2007, he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study environmental stewardship programs in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Asked what drives him, Doug replies: “The opportunity to marry science with strategy and advocacy and local action and to come up with big ideas for local action to improve conservation outcomes for Victoria.”

In his spare time, Doug likes to control pest animals and watch birds on his covenanted property near Violet Town.

dougr@tfn.org.au
0408 512 441

5/379 Collins Street
Melbourne VIC 3000

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Doug Robinson

29 October 2020 by

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A shared passion for protecting Victoria’s biodiversity has brought us together, but our success owes a lot to the commitment of our people, the ongoing support of our partners, and the generosity of private landholders.

Gouldian Finch

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Greg Bowers

BBus, CPA. Chief Financial Officer

Greg looks after financial management, reporting and audit liaison at Trust for Nature. In addition to these responsibilities, he is also involved in governance and risk as well as overseeing the Trust’s information technology. As a Victorian Government statutory authority, Trust for Nature must maintain a high standard of governance and financial management, and ensure that its business continuity and information systems fully meet the needs of the organisation. Greg previously worked in the IT, banking and public sectors.

He says the passion, commitment and professionalism of his colleagues at Trust for Nature is energising and motivating. Away from the office, Greg enjoys tennis and camping in the Grampians.

gregb@tfn.org.au
03 8631-5823

5/379 Collins Street
Melbourne VIC 3000

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Greg Bowers