Peter Voller is Chair of the Cradle Coast Regional NRM Committee and director on the CCA Board.

Mr Voller has served as Chair of the NRM Committee since January 2018. His professional background includes organisational governance, policy review and design, property and landscape planning for sustainable farming systems and practical farm management.

Emily is a local from Circular Head. She is a qualified accountant, who has moved into the fields of carbon and greenhouse gas accounting and reporting as a specialist. She has travelled overseas with her  studies and she brings strong understanding in the fields of carbon accounting and sustainable land management. Emily is lead accountant for a small farm focusses project and innovation company based in Penguin. 

Emma is a highly competent leader with deep experience in aboriginal engagement and land use through past work across Australia, she has a strong and abiding interest in environmental tourism, and is presently the CEO of a Traditional Owner led corporation managing projects across the Great Barrier Reef. Emma brings deep expertise in participative planning, board process and systems thinking, linked to insights from contact with aboriginal culture, global travel, and extensive professional networks. She grew up in Penguin and is a true NW girl at heart.

Sam has recently retired from his role as Officer in Charge of the Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station near Smithton. Sam is an internationally recognised meteorologist with extensive experience in climate change and air pollution monitoring at a global scale. Sam is also an active member of the Circular Head Landcare Group and is a past chair of the Circular Head Aboriginal Corporation. Sam has an abiding interest in the wellbeing of nature, culture, land, sea and sky. He is also an expert at the grimy task of weed management in saltmarsh environments.

Perviz is an educator, a mentor and an advocate for natural systems, geography and biodiversity. She is a leading expert on little penguin ecology and she has deep experience in coastal processes and systems of north western Tasmania. She works extensively within volunteer networks focussed on shorebird ecology, conservation and community awareness.  Perviz’s expertise in the science of ecological systems makes her an ideal process thinker for the NRM Committee. Pervis is Deputy Chair of the NRM Committee and she is a dab hand at guiding tourists to ‘ look, but dont touch’ in Little Penguin rookeries.

Stephen is a production forester with broad experience in silvicultural systems in Tasmania, augmented by training in South Africa and work across forestry systems nationally. Stephen brings a view of the landscape built on sustainability, planning and systems thinking. He has recently moved from a leadership role in Private Forest Tasmania to focus on carbon sequestration in plantation forestry systems. Stephen brings deep insight to landscape planning, functional environmental management paired with a palpable care for environments and the people work in them.

Lyndon is a respected leader in the Tasmanian Aboriginal community and across the broader community. Country has kept his family safe over the past 200 years, the journey finding his family settling on the Leven River. He continues to care, and share deep knowledge of this place, grounded in ancestral roots, via healthy country advisory and contracting business, consulting, and management. He advises via boards, councils, and committees as required. His understanding and affiliation with his ancestral pathways and their fusion into contemporary culture and social systems is comprehensive and warmly shared. Lyndon has strong connection to Land, Sea and Sky Country as an advocate, custodian, and steward. His creativity and willing collaboration bring strength to the NRM Committee and depth to our understanding of cultural connection and knowledge.

As a lifelong resident of northern Tasmania, Bill brings deep knowledge and lived experience in the management of natural resources of north west Tasmania. His working life has always been close to nature and community, and ranges from orchardist and farmer to NRM officer for two Councils in the region. He has extensive knowledge of communities and context for communities working with the land, biodiversity and rivers. He is presently retired and lives in Wynyard. He is a bit of an old school hippy, but we tolerate him because he has good ideas.