This week Tim Budge and Peter Lockyer chat with the legendary Cam Walker about forests, climate change, supporting Traditional Owners and his enduring love of the High Country.
Cam is the campaigns co-ordinator with Friends of the Earth in Melbourne.
Friends of the Earth (FoE) is a grassroots, community-based environmental organisation and Cam is responsible for co-ordinating the various campaigns and projects of the organisation. FoE takes a community empowerment approach to its campaigns. He has worked for decades on grassroots environmental campaigns, starting with the Franklin River in 1982, and with indigenous communities, trade unions and civil society groups.
In the last three years he has focused on identifying forests of high conservation value in the Victorian high country and campaigning for their protection, and working towards an early end to native forest logging across the state. A long community campaign led to the Victorian government announcing it will end all native forest logging in the east of the state by January 2024.
Cam spent a decade working with FoE International, with experience in environmental campaigning in Africa, Europe, North America and Latin America.
He is an active volunteer firefighter, received the National Emergency Medal for his efforts during the Black Summer fires, is a high school teacher by training, with a background in terrestrial ecology. You can read his blog here. It will be fascinating so tune in!
12noon, Tuesday 12th November, on SeymourFM, 103.9 on your dial. Repeated at 8am on Saturdays. Also on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you get your podcasts.
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