Personal
Lyndall was born in country Victoria
and spent most of her childhood in Mildura. After completing a
degree in Outdoor Education at Bendigo University in 1987 she
traveled to Darwin to have a look. Twenty years later she’s
still here!
Professional
Soon after arriving in
Darwin Lyndall took up a position as field worker with the Duke of
Edinburgh’s Award Scheme and spent a year or two visiting
schools and having adventures in the Territory bush with the Dukes
Mob. This lead on to a tour guiding career taking unsuspecting
tourists canoeing on the Daly, and on bushwalking and 4WD
adventures through Kakadu, Litchfield and the Kimberley.
After a few years of
swanning around in Top End plunge pools Lyndall got a real job as a
ranger in Kakadu National Park where she then spent the next 15
years. In 2006 Lyndall took an opportunity of a secondment to the
Northern Land Council where she worked as a Sea Country Facilitator
in the Caring for Country Unit and got to know many of the
community rangers around the Territory Coastline. At the end of the
secondment, rather than going back to Kakadu, Lyndall took a
position with the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service
(AQIS) as the remote area coordinator. This was an exciting time
for AQIS who had been given the opportunity to greatly expand
Indigenous engagement in Quarantine related work in the Top End
through funding aimed at reducing the quarantine threat from
illegal foreign fishing vessels. With the AQIS remote area team,
Lyndall was involved in developing and rolling out a program of fee
for service contracts and related training with coastal ranger
groups from Broome to Borroloola. Most coastal ranger groups are
now involved in providing services to AQIS on an annual contract
basis and the program continues to develop and strengthen with the
support of the rangers and the AQIS remote area team.
Lyndall has now taken a break from
AQIS to take up the following position hosted by
NAILSMA.
She joined the NAILSMA team in May 2008.
Project
Bush Heritage Australia (BHA) is a non-profit,
non-government organisation which aims to protect the natural
environment through the acquisition and/or management of land or
water of high conservation value or environmental
significance. BHA also builds
partnerships with other organisations and individuals to support
conservation management of land that is managed by others.
BHA’s Conservation on Country Program focuses on building
these partnerships for conservation management with traditional
owners of country.
Lyndall's main roles
are to work with NAILSMA and Indigenous people to support the
purchase of ecologically and culturally
significant country, to
support conservation management on land already owned and managed
by Indigenous people; and to support the participation of
Indigenous people in the management of Bush Heritage reserves.
Lyndall's initial focus is on regions and projects where Bush
Heritage already has partnerships (Cape York and North West Queensland, Kimberley and West Arnhem),
but her role is also to work on development of new project areas in
collaboration with NAILSMA staff.
