Ninian is a Fellow of CPA Australia and an accounting professional with over 35 years of corporate financial experience across a range of industry sectors spanning mining & resources, construction, higher education and not-for-profit organisations. He has an ongoing professional interest in assisting small clubs and societies in all aspects of governance, policy and financial matters. He is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).

Ninian has a lifelong interest in animal welfare and the environment and is a member of and donor to a range of charitable groups in these sectors.

Dr Megan Kearney is professional veterinarian with a wildlife speciality who operates her own veterinary hospital in Bangalow, NSW. She has had a passion for wildlife medicine and conservation since commencing as a graduate vet in Alice Springs 33 years ago. Her private practice work includes livestock, companion animals and wildlife in Australia and the UK, with specific not for profit experience in Ladakh, India as a volunteer with Vets Beyond Borders.

Megan’s experience includes directorships and committee memberships for a range of not-for-profit organisations including President of Integrative Veterinarians Australia, a special interest group of the Australian Veterinary Association, the Ereshkigal Foundation, and Bradford City Farm amongst other community group.

Lorraine Vass is a koala conservationist and past president of Friends of the Koala, well known across the Northern Rivers for protecting koalas and their habitats.  Her work has focussed on forming partnerships and alliances to help educate and engage people in koala conservation.

Lorraine was founding secretary of the NSW Wildlife Council, formed to champion the role of licensed wildlife rehabilitation in wildlife conservation and to represent wildlife carers across the state.

The recipient of several awards she was recently made a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to wildlife conservation, particularly conservation of the koala.

Kim Hollis-Simpson is a qualified veterinary nurse with 24 years in the veterinary industry in Australia and the UK.

A chance meeting with a tiny ringtail possum in 2007 steered the course of her career. Since then, her focus has been on wildlife health and conservation, nursing at the Australian Wildlife Health Centre at Healesville Sanctuary and at Currumbin Wildlife Hospital for almost a decade.

Kim has trained staff at the Victorian DELWP, and developed their manual on koala anaesthesia. She was chosen to carry out field anaesthesia of the endangered Leadbeater’s possum and participated in their supplemental feeding program following the 2009 Victorian bushfires.

Adam is a qualified Stock and Station Agent, Project Manager and dry-land farmer. He has extensive agribusiness experience and over a decade’s executive experience in land management and biodiversity conservation across NSW both in Government and the not-for-profit sectors.

Adam is the former Revolving Fund Manager for the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust (BCT) and the Revolving Funds Manager for the Nature Conservation Trust of NSW (NCT), where he was responsible for the procurement of land under private treaty purposed for the delivery of conservation biodiversity and biodiversity offsets by private landowners.

Catherine is a former member of the NSW Legislative Council and has spent a career in a range of NSW Parliamentary roles including Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier, Shadow Minister for the Environment and Policy Director to NSW Leader of the Opposition. She has also spent time as a professional writer working with corporate and government clients.

Catherine would be known to many as a fierce environmental advocate and in particular a supporter of koala protections.

The Northern Rivers has been home for Ilka for the past 3 decades. She loves the rain and the wildlife that make this region unique, and lives in a little off-grid shack in the foothills of the Border Ranges, on Gulli-bul Country, with pademelons, koala, microbats, goannas and a grand choir of birds.

Ilka keeps the cogs turning in the background of HQ operations - from the IT systems, to comms, event management and more - Ilka is your best first point of contact for any NRWH enquiries. Contact Ilka via info@nrwh.com.au