STTF Board Member

CHRIS TALLENTIRE – SECRETARY

Chris Tallentire was Director of the Conservation Council of WA from March 2004 to April 2008. He is the endorsed ALP candidate for the next State election in the electorate of Gosnells. He was formerly a senior environmental officer with the Water and Rivers Commission and Department of Environmental Protection.

Chris’s first environmental campaign was in 1995 against French nuclear testing. He didn’t brave the seas in a Zodiac, but instead used his French language skills to implore the French people to see reason and stop exploding bombs in the pacific.

Chris believes the unique natural heritage of Australia is our greatest treasure, and that a full understanding of our natural environment is critical to the development of a well founded national identity.

Chris has been committed to the Stop The Toad campaign since March 2005, when he presented at the Kununurra cane toad forum. Here he learnt of the scale of the ecological threat posed by toads, and of the potential for WA to take action and keep the state toad free. In response to the Kununurra forum the Conservation Council of WA held a forum in Perth, which was attended by over 300 people. Chris participated in the 2006 Great Toad Muster where he was struck by the scale of the challenge and even more by the power of the community desire to rally to the cause and keep cane toads out of WA.

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