Fellows

Robyn Edwards

Robyn received $10,000 a year for 3 years

Robyn is the East Gippsland Regional Manager of Trust for Nature. She has also been instrumental in establishing the first Conservation Management Network in Victoria, the Gippsland Plains CMN. She has worked on the following: The Peregrine Falcon Project, the Scattered Trees Project, the Indigenous Training and Rainforest Restoration Project, the Grassland and Grassy Woodland ecosystems adaptive management trials and research, and various other restoration projects.

The fellowship has provided the opportunity for Robyn to gain new learnings, ideas and research, improved skills and efficiency, networking and partnership opportunities, as well as physical resources.

Andrew Stewart

Andrew received $10,000 a year for 3 years

Andrew Stewart is a fourth generation farmer in the Otways Ranges. He is an active member of the East Otway Landcare Group and the Coordinator of the Otway Agroforestry Network (OAN). He also sits on the executive of the Upper Barwon Landcare Network (UBLN). The OAN and UBLN are running a landscape restoration project that The Norman Wettenhall Foundation is supporting called the LEAF Project.

Andrew is past president of the Victorian Farmers Federation Farm Tree and Landcare Assocation and is on the committee of the Australian Master TreeGrower Program. He has recently been appointed to the Australian Landcare Council.

Andrew has worked in productive land conservation for more than 20 years and is dedicated to landscape restoration. His Fellowship has helped him set himself up for another 20 years!

Donna Mitsch

Donna received $10,000 a year for 2 years

Donna is Cultural Heritage Officer with the Department of Sustainability and Environment in Wodonga. She is also part of the Gundha Mulla Aboriginal Woman’s Landcare Group – the first of its kind in Australia.

Donna’s work focusses on Indigenous plants in the landscape in north east Victoria and she plans to publish a book on her work.  The fellowship will help with that work, enabling her to buy a computer and other materials.

Her other experience relates to Indigenous knowledge and fire in the landscape. We are very interested in this area and want to follow Donna as she conducts her research, which will hopefully have an impact on agency work in the future.