Trust for Nature (Victoria)

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Amelia Houghton

Statewide Operations Manager

Amelia is the A/Statewide Operations Manager, and has been with Trust for Nature since 2019. Amelia’s role is to oversee the delivery of a range of conservation initiatives across Victoria, leading a team of talented individuals who are passionate about conservation. Amelia holds a Master of Social Science (Environment and Planning), and Bachelor of Natural Resource Management. Being with inspiring people, spending time in nature, and going on long country drives, are some of Amelia’s favourite things in life. Amelia feels very fortunate to combine these loves while working with Trust for Nature to protect biodiversity on private land.

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

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Andrew Foran

Chief Operating Officer

Andrew Foran joined Trust for Nature in 2022, coming from IUCN where he was the Regional Programme Coordinator for IUCN Oceania, and the Head of the IUCN Pacific Centre for Environmental Governance.

He has a Masters of Business Administration and a Graduate Diploma in Environmental Management and Planning, and is passionate about bringing people together and supporting and empowering them to reach values driven goals.

Andrew grew up in regional Victoria, and has worked across the environment and sustainability sector, including on sustainable supply chains, green product development and marketing with companies including BP, National Australia Bank, Qantas, Boeing and Toyota.

He is very excited about the opportunity to grow and strengthen Trust for Nature’s partnerships with traditional owners in Victoria, and to contribute to Reconciliation Australia’s vision for a just, equitable and reconciled Australia.

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

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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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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.

Karen Tymms

Stewardship Coordinator for Victoria

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

karent@tfn.org.au

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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.

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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