BMWHI Directors re-elected to ACIUCN Executive Committee

We are pleased to announce that Dr Rosalie Chapple has been re-elected to the Executive Committee of the Australian Committee for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (ACIUCN) in 2021.

BMWHI Chairman, Peter Cochrane, also remains on the Executive Committee as the incumbent IUCN Regional Councillor (Australia). 

The Australian Committee for IUCN (ACIUCN) was founded in 1979 to provide a focus for Australian member organisations of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and organisations with primary interests or responsibilities in nature conservation to support IUCN’s global mission for ‘a just world which values nature’ within Australia.

The Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute is a member of both the ACIUCN and the IUCN, and we are proud to be part of a global community working to protect important natural areas around the world. 

“I am motivated to be involved with the Australian Committee of IUCN as it is a unique forum that brings together the full range of conservation partners. The ACIUCN provides a valuable opportunity for the Institute to engage with a wide range of issues and have dialogue with people from all sectors of conservation. This brings potential to influence sound and innovative environmental policy and decisions.”
- Dr. Rosalie Chapple

The Executive Committee of the ACIUCN is made up of four elected representatives from within the ACIUCN membership - two from government and two from non government members. In addition, the regional IUCN Councillor resident in Australia serves on the committee and a Treasurer may be seconded. The Executive is responsible for carrying out the administrative affairs of the Committee and attending to matters between meetings. The Chair is elected from the Executive and the role alternates every two years between government and non-government members.

Dr Rosalie Chapple is one of the two non-government member representatives, alongside James Trezise, a policy analyst from the Australian Conservation Foundation.

The two government member representatives for 2021 are Cassandra Kelly (Chair), the First Assistant Secretary at the Federal Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment; and Jo Hopkins, the Manager of National and International Engagement at Parks Victoria.