Meet the speakers at The Gathering 2026

Ashley Berwick is the Events and Partnerships Manager at TasRecycle, the Scheme Coordinator for Recycle Rewards, Tasmania's Container Deposit Scheme. Ashley works with community groups, events, local government and industry partners to build awareness of Recycle Rewards and create initiatives that deliver positive environmental and community outcomes.

Greg Taylor has been actively involved as a leader of  ‘care’ groups in North West Tasmania since 1995. He has been a committee member of Mount Roland Land Care for sixteen years and has been president of the Group since 2024. Throughout that time he has also been owner operator of various land management businesses, including a commercial certified organic farm for 17 years. 

Chiara Danese is an environmental scientist with thirty years of experience in natural resource management, specialising in coastal, marine, riverine and catchment systems. Drawing on her extensive background in stakeholder engagement, Chiara helps communities turn ideas into projects that create lasting social, environmental and economic benefits. She successfully secured Landcare funding for riparian restoration of a section of the Browns River, helping to improve water quality and enhance native habitat. 

Kerrie has a background in ecology and natural resource management and volunteers across Landcare and Coastcare projects on the Tasman Peninsula. Through her work in community development, she combines biodiversity, permaculture and community gardening to support nature-based and food security programs.

Peter has been involved in landcare since the early 1980s and is presently chair of West Tamar Landcare Group. He is also Chair of Cradle Coast NRM, a Director on Cradle Coast Authority Board, and Director representing Tasmania on the NRM Regions Australia Board. Peter has a lifelong connection to landcare as a community movement. 

Barb joined Kingston Beach Coastcare in 2015 and later became Convenor, helping grow the group’s volunteer base and establish regular monthly working bees. She served as Treasurer and Secretary of the Kingborough Landcare Network (KLN) from 2023 to 2025 and remains its Secondary Contact following its deincorporation in late 2025. Barb is passionate about caring for her local coastal environment and building community connections through Landcare.

Maria is a member of the Taroona Environment Network and a University of Tasmania PhD candidate supported by Landcare Tasmania. Originally from a farming family in Nova Scotia, Canada, Maria was involved in farm operations for many years and has experience in ecological research, agricultural science and rural community organising. Her current research explores the experiences of farming communities doing Landcare in Tasmania, including participation, community resilience and how Landcare programs can better support farming communities. The project is delivered with the support of Landcare Tasmania, the JM Roberts Trust and the University of Tasmania.

Nigel has been a member of the Taroona Environment Network (TEN) for 28 years and is currently Deputy Convenor. He supports TEN’s work protecting and restoring native vegetation in Taroona, alongside its environmental education and advocacy activities, and values the collaborative efforts of its volunteers.

Jesse leads the NRM North team, working with stakeholders across northern Tasmania on integrated catchment management, waterway health and biodiversity conservation. His experience includes delivering the kanamaluka/Tamar Estuary River Health Action Plan – Catchment Works Program and coordinating landscape rehabilitation following the 2016 Tasmanian floods.

Hannah Sadler is the Land Program Manager at Cradle Coast NRM. She has worked in natural resource management, agriculture and local government in Western Australia and around Tasmania. Hannah grew up on a dairy farm at Flowerdale and has a passion for our amazing natural assets and the benefits they provide for resilience, productivity, health and well being.  

Alison has worked in natural resource management in Tasmania for over 28 years in a range of roles with CVA, NRM North, Break O'Day & Meander Valley Council's and now Tamar NRM. She has a passion for Tassie plants and one of her many favourites is the Spotted Sun Orchid. Alison has a Bachelor of Social Science, a Graduate Certificate in Tourism, Environment and Cultural Heritage and a Certificate IV in Tassie native plants, landscape design and propagation.

Tim is a longstanding Chair of the Deloraine Landcare Group and has a strong interest in sustainable land management through his farming activities at Woodlands, a 350-hectare property near Deloraine. He is also a former Chair of the Meander Valley Council NRM Committee and has contributed to regional natural resource management initiatives.

Todd Dudley has been involved in on ground ecological restoration/bush regeneration for over 40 years including working in rainforest, wet forest, dry forest ,woodlands and heathlands and a wide range of sites including coastal dunes, roadsides, mines/quarries, waste transfer stations, plantations, agriculture and urban bushland.

Karen is the Convenor of Friends of Bass Strait, bringing her expertise in ecology, conservation and land management to the protection and restoration of Tasmania’s offshore islands. She is passionate about controlling invasive weeds such as boxthorn and mirror bush to support the recovery of native vegetation and protect important seabird habitat.

Min has been a Landcare volunteer with Southern Beaches Landcare Coastcare for more than 30 years and with the Friends of Maatsuyker Island (FOMI) Wildcare Tasmania for almost 20 years. She has also been involved in amazing opportunities to volunteer for the care of the environment with ‘friends of’ groups across Tasmania, including numerous islands. Since finishing full time work, she has enjoyed being able to take up more volunteering opportunities. She has just completed certificate 3, Conservation and Ecosystems Management.

Sean brings more than 30 years of conservation, park management and community engagement experience. As Biodiversity Program Manager, he leads biodiversity initiatives across the Cradle Coast region, including the Giant Freshwater Crayfish and King Island Bird Recovery projects, supporting community-led conservation and biodiversity outcomes.

Bill Harvey joined Landcare Tasmania’s Board as Chair in 2021. Bill brings governance expertise and a wide network to the Board, being an experienced leader in local government. First elected to the City of Hobart Council in 2007, Bill currently chairs the Sustainability in Infrastructure Portfolio Committee, and led the City of Hobart to be the first capital city in Australia to declare a Climate and Biodiversity Emergency. In addition to his experience as a director and chair, Bill has been personally involved in Landcare since the 1990s, is committed to the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, and is passionate about making Tasmania a genuine leader in environmental sustainability.

Sharelle is an agricultural and environmental scientist. She has worked in Australia and internationally delivering strategies and programs for communities and nature. At the National Landcare Network, she supports State and Territory Landcare Organisations to strengthen the capacity of community-led Landcare networks and groups to develop place-based Landscape Action Plans. She is also working on ways to diversity funding and investment in Landcare. 

Bec traded Melbourne’s corporate world to become a duck farmer in 2019. As a leadership and strategy consultant, she has trained and coached more than 3,500 people in lean and agile ways of working, across many organisations including The University of Melbourne, ANZ and the Australian Red Cross. Today, when she's not running Lone Goose Farm, she helps Tasmanian organisations build stronger leadership, culture, strategy and ways of working through a practical, people-first approach.

Anna is a Director at Purpose Accounting, supporting non-profit organisations to strengthen their financial management and increase social impact. She also contributes to her local community through volunteer Treasurer roles at Cygnet Community Children’s Centre and Women’s Health Tasmania.

Robert has over a decade of farm and agribusiness experience across vegetable, dairy, oilseed and processing industries. Prior to founding West Pine in 2018, Robert worked with a multinational agribusiness developing commercial strategies and managing stakeholder relationships in substantial capital works and environmental programs. Robert is passionate about global agricultural development and innovation, particularly the adoption of renewable energy and carbon reduction opportunities for agri-food businesses.

President of Lorinna Landcare

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Tim Reed and his family live on their 232-acre beef farm in Rosevale, Tasmania. Tim has grown up in the agriculture/ horticulture and tourism sectors, starting out as a trainee in a native plant nursery, before working on farms and orchards in Tasmania and New Zealand. Over the past 11  years, Tim's been working to improve the rundown property, formally managed under conventional farming management, by switching to a new style of farming, a combination of sustainable, holistic and regenerative management. Tim has been researching and talking to others, attending workshops, to find what works best for the local area, trialling many different pasture combinations and weed management strategies while building an Angus breeding herd, re-designing the layout of the entire farm and running a small agricultural contracting business.

Accounts Manager at Austcover