Rachel is the Director of Wildlife Conservation and Science for Zoos Victoria. Rachel believes that working with communities is the only way we will rise to the challenge of securing a sustainable future for all living things. Rachel has developed award-winning programs that have tackled biodiversity conservation issues both locally and globally. In 2010 she was awarded Sustainability Leader of the year by WME within the Government and NGO sector. She is currently on the board of the Centre for Sustainability Leadership. Rachel has spent the last two years leading Melbourne Zoo’s Don’t Palm us Off campaign seeking mandatory labelling of palm-oil on all food products in an a attempt to utilise education as a tool to weaken Australia’s link to the palm oil crisis.
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