Uncle AJ is a Gullible Elder who worked with Gugin Guddbah Land Council for 20 years. He’s also work with bush regenerators and helping them to apply a cultural context to their work. He’s also interested in training up Aboriginal people to work on Country and sharing the importance of language and culture.

Uncle AJ has always loved building connections and working with Country and is happy to see the success of Jagun Alliance.

Oliver Costello is a Bundjalung man from the northern rivers of NSW, with a diverse range of personal and professional expertise in culturally connected stewardship of Country. He is currently focused on First Nations knowledge and practice in caring for Country through regenerative cultural practices that support preparedness, recovery and resilience in relation to fire, floods and storms. He has extensive experience working within the Indigenous land and sea management, conservation and cultural heritage management sectors and has been particularly interested in empowering Aboriginal perspectives on fire, threatened and culturally significant species. Oliver set up the Firesticks initiative in 2009 and was a founding Director of the Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation in 2018.

He currently serves as the Executive Director of the Jagun Alliance Aboriginal Corporation and is the Vice President of the Northern Rivers Fire and Biodiversity Consortium.

Marcus Ferguson identifies as a Bundjalung, Nyangbal man of the Lower Richmond River. He has a special connection throughout Bundjalung Country. As a young man he took interest and developed a deep passion for understanding cultural landscapes, caring for country and learning from his Elders. His focus is on revitalising Indigenous Conservation and Land management and brings his 25 years’ experience working as Senor Cultural Sites Officer and Advisor for local communities as Jagun Alliance’s founding board member and Cultural Advisor. He has been instrumental in supporting Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) Ranger groups and founded the Ngunya Jargoon IPA in Wardell.

He is an acclaimed artist and enjoys painting landscapes throughout the broader Bundjalung lands. He is a respected historian and specialist cultural knowledge educator across the East Coast of Australia.

Robert Boota is a Githabul man. Hecreated the Githabul Rangers to focus on environmental problems and restore local native forests after a long career in forestry.

The Githabul Ranger program has successfully protected and improved natural & cultural sites across 110,000 hectares of Githabul Country.

Shane Ivey is a local Aboriginal man born and bred on the Tweed Byron coast. He works at TAFE NSW teaching Conservation and Ecosystems Management at Wollongbar, Kingscliff and with the Indigenous Ranger groups across the Northern Rivers. He also manages Madhima Gulgan Community association - a local Aboriginal Bush Regeneration Team working in the Byron and Tweed Shires.