Brett Brenchley

Project Coordinator - Wetland Watch

Brett was an award winning foundry man before he decided to pursue a career in environmental management after “witnessing horrendously environmentally damaging activity working in foundries”.

He completed his university degree at Murdoch University in 2004 and then moved to Sydney. However, the call of Western Australia was too strong. Brett returned in 2006 and worked on restoring the upper Blackwood catchment and investigating whether it was possible to start an aquaculture industry in the area. In 2006 he joined WWF’s Wetland Watch project which was based in Kwinana, the town where he was raised. Since then Brett has lead WWF’s wetland conservation project on to greater heights and is following the battle zone as it happens. After successfully handing over wetland conservation in the Perth and Kwinina metro areas, Brett has now developed strategic partnerships further south with key local governments in the Peel-Harvey and Yalgorup areas, which have Ramsar Convention listed wetlands all around and which are now on the front-line of ever expanding urban growth.

“There is nothing better than listening to landholders talk about how special their patch of bush or wetland is,” Brett said. Nicknamed the ‘Quiet Achiever’ Brett has a wry and wicked sense of humour. He also secretly aspires to speaking Spanish one day so that he can finally understand his wife’s El Salvadorean family.