Rowan Foley

Rowan Foley comes from the Wondunna clan of the Badtjala people Traditional Owners of K’gari (Fraser Island) and Hervey Bay, Queensland. Rowan is the founding CEO of the Aboriginal Carbon Foundation (AbCF). Rowan arrived in the Northern Territory in 1989 working as a ranger at Uluru – Kata Tjuta National Park and returned in 2005 as the Park Manager living in Mutitjulu community for a total of six years.The Kimberley Land Council employed Rowan as their first Land Management Officer 1995 where he established their Land and Sea Management Unit and negotiated the first Indigenous Protected Area in Western Australia. AbCF was recognised in the inaugural ‘The List’ of top 100 green power players published in The Australian newspaper 2022 adjudicated by Dr Alan Finkel AC. Rowan was invited to give a TEDx Talk in Brisbane in 2018, has presented at the UNFCCC in Bonn Germany on Indigenous carbon farming and the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015.