What Do We Do?
Although thousands of people around the country love and enjoy wild places through activities like trail running and hiking, outdoor communities have not organised to protect the wild places that they care about.
That’s where For Wild Places comes in. Climate change, biodiversity loss, fossil fuel exploration and extraction and unsustainable development are all threatening wild places around Australia. We’re an Australian charity dedicated to inspiring and connecting outdoor communities through impactful action, fostering awareness, and building a unified voice for the protection of wild places.
We’ve been around since 2020, having been inspired by the incredible takayna Ultra (now takayna Trail) to bring this concept of sports activism to other wild places under threat around Australia. And we’ll be here until wild places are thriving and unthreatened!
Who Are We?
For Wild Places is a volunteer-powered organisation, with people across Australia contributing their time, energy and expertise to the mission. Our small team of employees oversee the operations of the organisation, as well as managing our events and many other programs.
Mirjam Beck – Events Manager
Ross Colebatch – Director
Daniel Cooper – Director
Ally Murray – Deputy Chair & Secretary
Tim Siegenbeek van Heukelom – Chair
Warrick van de Merwe – Treasurer
Hillary McAllister – Pilliga Ultra Race Director
Mat Gardiner – Pilliga Ultra Volunteer Coordinator
Ayumi Horne – Pilliga Ultra Event Coordinator
Elanor Finch – Volunteer
Cara Morrison – Volunteer