• Michael Oswald - Director,
Chairman
• Kelvin Davies - Director, Executive Officer
• Robert Rosen - Director
• Kathryn Biggs - Director
• Rick Christian - Director
• Mark Easton - Director
• Christopher Bennett - Director
• Tim Low - Patron
• George Lewin - Patron
Rescuer Profiles
• David Cook - Daintree Conservation Project Officer
• Emma Menzies - Fundraiser
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Michael
Oswald MAppFin (Maq) - Director / Chairman
Michael is a specialist consultant to the financial services
and recruitment sector. His career in banking finance and business
has included positions as Group CEO of CreditLink and Director
of Strategic Risk Management with PricewaterhouseCoopers. |
Kelvin
Davies - Director/ Executive Officer
Kelvin is a co-founder of Rainforest Rescue and has been actively
involved in rainforest conservation organisations since 1990.
Presently the Executive Officer of Rainforest Rescue he has
previously been employed with not for profit organisations involved
in nature conservations including Conservation Volunteers Australia,
Greening Australia, Wetland Care Australia and The Wilderness
Society. |
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Kathryn
Biggs BA, BEc - Director
Kathryn works with the Queensland Criminal Justice Commission
as Commissioner of Police Service Reviews. She was for twenty
years a proprietor and director of Worldcare Assist, an international
assistance company. Kathryn is a co-founder of Rainforest Rescue,
has created her own rainforest garden and is committed to rainforest
restoration. |
Robert Rosen B.E.c
- Director/Treasurer
Robert is a former Director & Treasurer of the Australian Bush
Heritage Fund, Chair of the Nature Conservation Trust of NSW
and National Secretary of the Australian Green Party. He has
a background in public accounting and real estate and was one
of the pioneers of the ethical investment industry in Australia.
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Rick
Christian BBusTour - Director
Rick has studied tourism management, looking in depth at the
relationship between tourism and the natural environment. He
is an owner of Travel Promote and Byron-bay.com. He has a passion
for the natural environment. His career has included working
in the Australian tourism industry since 1990 and lecturing
at University in Information Technology. He has worked in large
5 star corporate hotels as well as small apartment complexes
and island resorts. Rick has been a supporter of Rainforest
Rescue since 2000 and joined Rainforest Rescue as a director
in 2006. |
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Chris Bennett - Director
Chris Bennett has been a resident of the Daintree Coast for over 12 years, and a Director of the Daintree Rainforest Foundation since 1998.
While living in the Daintree, Chris has been employed as an Interpretive Tour Guide, taking pleasure in night walks, and a Teacher and Tutor within the faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies at the Douglas Campus of the Tropical North Queensland Institute of TAFE. Chris has also provided consultancy services to several organisations in relation to Indigenous Cultural enterprises and community development. |
Mark Easton LLB,
BSc - Director
Mark is the Regulatory Compliance Manager at Ergon Energy, and
an active member of Ergon Energy's Green Team. His role includes
ensuring compliance with existing renewable energy schemes and
providing regulatory advice to facilitate the development of
renewable energy projects. Mark joined Rainforest Rescue as
a director in 2006. |
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Tim Low
BSc - Patron
Tim Low is a well known biologist, environmentalist, writer
and photographer. Since 1986 Tim has written a column in Nature
Australia, Australia's leading nature magazine. Three of his
six books have won national awards and the most recent, "The
New Nature: Winners & Losers in Wild Australia" (2002),
was listed by Who magazine as one of the Books of the Year.
It led the Sydney Morning Herald to call Tim "a classic
Australian scientific stirrer". Tim's other books include
Bush Tucker, Bush Medicine and Feral Future. The publication
of "Feral Future" led to invitations to speak in Hawaii,
Mexico, South Africa and all over Australia. Tims other books
include the best-sellers "Bush Tucker" and "Bush
Medicine", and a guide to cooking edible weeds. Since 1986
Tim has written a column in Nature Australia, the countrys leading
nature magazine, and he has written columns for various other
magazines. He has also contributed chapters to a range of books
and published a calendar and more than a thousand nature photos.
Tim travels widely around Australia and overseas, weaving into
his writing and public speaking stories from Africa, Asia, North
American and Antarctica. His opinions are often sought by journalists.
As a teenager he discovered several new lizard species, one
of which is named after him. |
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George
Lewin - Patron
In 1975 George Lewin invented
the Triton Work Bench and established his phenomenally successful
company based on this great Australian product. The business
grew, the range expanded and George Lewin built a virtually
100% Australian infrastructure, employing hundreds of people
and producing almost $300 million in sales from 1976 to 1999.
Total sales are now approaching the $500m mark. George now
lives in his mountain-top home near Byron Bay in Northern
New South Wales. Since 2003 he has been involved as a Board
member on three not-for-profit organisations in the Northern
New South Wales area, he mentors and advises inventors, and
manages the George Lewin Foundation - which is his philanthropic
vehicle for disposing of his considerable wealth to worthwhile
local, national and international causes while he is still
alive. |
Rescuer Profiles
"David is thrilled to have joined Rainforest Rescue and to find himself in the position of being able to help save the Daintree lowland rainforest from further degradation."
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David C. Cook - Daintree Rainforest Project Officer / B.Sc. (Hons.) Zoology, Dp. Fisheries Mgt.
Dp. Conservation & Land Mgt.
Inspired by his passion of nature David has spent almost 30 years living and working in the tropics. His studies in Zoology, Botany, Chemistry and Geology at Aberdeen University lead to the award of a First Class Honours degree in Zoology and in 1974, and the MacGillivray Prize in Zoology. David left Scotland and in 1975 for Papua New Guinea to work fisheries biologist for five years. He then won an open scholarship with the British Overseas Development Administration to study for a post-graduate diploma in fisheries management designed for fisheries officers mostly from developing countries. David spent a further 15 years working in fisheries in the Indo-Pacific region before moving to Australia in 1998.
Before joining Rainforest Rescue, David undertook a variety of overseas fisheries consultancy work whilst maintaining a strong interest in wildlife and conservation issues. Authorities with whom he has worked for during this period include The Asian Development Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the United Nations Development Programme and the Natural History Unit of the BBC.
David has chosen to live south of the Daintree River estuary since 2000 because of the area's outstanding biodiversity. |
Emma Menzies - Fundraiser
It was a day Emma Menzies will never forget - the day she first stepped into the magnificent Daintree while on a trip around Australia. Sixteen years on, Emma is one of the rainforest's strongest allies. In her spare time, she's raised over $10,000 for Rainforest Rescue. "For me, the Daintree is an amazing place - when I read what was happening I wanted to do something. I want my children and future generations to be able to experience it like I was able to. I thought Rainforest Rescue were doing a fantastic job and I wanted to try and help." Emma approached all of the local papers and radio stations along the Sunshine Coast and was encouraged by the level of support. She also convinced local businesses to display educational material and continues to raise awareness of the Daintree project at the Eumundi markets and on her website. Emma thinks her contribution to Rainforest Rescue and the conservation and saving of the Daintree has been small but we beg to differ! |
"As soon as you're in the rainforest everything is always much clearer - there's an energy you get from being there." |
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