Jono La Nauze
Chairperson at the Murray Darling Conservation Alliance

Jono has been an environmental justice activist for two and half decades and was the inaugural recipient of the Jill Reichstein Social Change Award. He has led game-changing campaigns that protected nature, advanced First Nations rights and secured groundbreaking coal and gas phase out plans.

Having grown up near the border town of Albury-Wodonga, Jono spent the first decade of his career focused on the rivers, wetlands and forests of the Murray-Darling. 

At Friends of the Earth and the Australian Conservation Foundation he became a prominent voice in the national water reform debate and the creation of Victoria’s river red gum national park estate. He was previously Executive Director of the Climate Action Network Australia (CANA).

As CEO of Environment Victoria he spearheaded the formation of Murray-Darling Conservation Alliance as an innovative new campaigning organisation to protect Australia’s largest river system.