Don Henry

Don Henry is an Australian lobbyist.

In the 1980s Don Henry campaigned for the protection of Moreton Island, Great Barrier Reef Islands, the rainforests of north Queensland, and Cape York. As Director of the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland and the editor of Wildlife Australia he succeeded in generating grassroots support for conservation among both rural and city people. He has served as a Commissioner with the Australian Heritage Commission, President of the Australian Committee for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the Moreton Island Protection Committee. In 1991 he was awarded a Global 500 Environment Award from the United Nations Environment Program.

From 1989-92 he was the Australian Director of World Wide Fund for Nature. He was then based in Washington DC with World Wildlife Fund, working as Director of the South Pacific program (1992-95), the Asia-Pacific program (1995-96) and the Global Forest program (1996-98). He co-chaired a global forest initiative with the World Bank designed to conserve 250 million hectares of forests. In 1998 he returned to Australia to take up the position of Executive Director of ACF.

Don Henry is currently the executive director of the Australian Conservation Foundation and was recently rated by the 'Financial Review's 'Power' magazine as one of the five most-powerful individuals in the country's NGOs - that's non-government organisations to the uninitiated. Don's also worked for the World Wildlife Fund both here in Australia and in Washington D.C., and was the co-chair of a global forest program with the World Bank designed to conserve 250 million hectares of forests.