Keith Bradby

Keith Bradby OAM is a long-time advocate for the ecological values of south-western Australia and the strength of grassroots work.

As a community-based activist in the early 1980s, he helped halt the clearing of some 3 million hectares of public land for marginal agriculture and was involved with establishing some of Australia’s earliest landcare groups and Australia’s first activated Biosphere Reserve program. As a businessman, he has owned and ran beekeeping and native seed businesses, consulted to the mining sector, and worked in local enterprise development.

Mr Bradby has worked directly for three State Cabinet Ministers. As a public servant in the 1990s, he managed and reformed the Peel-Harvey catchment program and drove the process that ended large scale land clearing for agriculture in south-western Australia. He had also consulted to emerging large landscape efforts in New Zealand, southern Africa and Mexico; and was instrumental in establishing Gondwana Link in 2002 and has led the program since.

Mr Bradby's work had been published in scientific journals, government reports, consultancy documents, and a number of standalone publications including ‘How To’ guides. He is an accomplished public speaker, and gives a number of presentations each year to local, national and international audiences.

In 2015, Mr Bradby was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for services to conservation and the environment in Western Australia.