Dave Kendal

Ararat

After careers as an academic, landscape planner, software engineer and noise maker, Dave started Future in Nature in 2022 to have a greater impact on nature-related policy and programs in Australia and around the world. He helps cities and botanic gardens to adapt landscapes to climate change, enable biodiversity to thrive, and to develop our ecological, social and cultural relationships with nature. He has been an adviser to local, state, and federal governments in Australia, and the European Commission, and has worked as an academic at the University of Tasmania, the University of Melbourne, and the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.