Your Tour Empowered by Our People
helping you enjoy nature
team echidna
in the wild | help wildlife | conservation | climate action
Martin Maderthaner
With 27 years wildlife guiding experience across Africa and Australia, Martin is our top wildlife guide and an exceptional bird guide. A long-time employee, serving as Operations Manager and Senior Wildlife Guide, his superb bushcraft, extensive wildlife knowledge, and boundless enthusiasm make him one of Australia's best guides.
Senior Wildlife Guide | Operations Manager
Alison Jackson
You'll love Alison. She's may be the first person you connect with when you book your tour. Alison has a degree in Ecotourism, has travelled extensively throughout Australia and loves watching wildlife in the great outdoors. As our longest serving team member Alison knows how to make your travel dreams come true. Give her a call!
sales & Reservations
Scott Roberts
Scott (centre) is highly respected, specialising in wildlife guiding and training across Australia. His adventurous spirit and extensive world travels—seeking wildlife, climbing mountains, and volunteering in the Amazon—formed his deep appreciation of wildlife and people. His training skills come from his teaching background.
Senior Wildlife Guide | Guide Trainer
Amy Somers
Amy is an exuberant guide who has a great rapport with people. She led expeditions in Southeast Asia and managed extensive outdoor programs before joining us in 2018. Working now in Operations, Amy's passion and experience ensure every tour is meticulously planned and expertly executed. She holds a Degree in Ecotourism
Operations | Wildlife Guide
Tim Dolby
Tim is one of Australia's best-known bird guides. He is a former Convener of BirdLife Australia, author of several bird books, including the well known "Finding Australian Birds: A Field Guide". He helps organize the Australian Twitchathon. He has guided trips throughout Australia's top birding locations and leads overseas birding trips.
Bird Guide | Wildlife Guide
Amanda Lamont
An experienced environmental advocate, Amanda served as a Climate and Disaster Adviser for Zoos Victoria. Witnessing worsening disasters, she founded Nature Based Resilience to champion integrating environmental advocacy into disaster planning. She leads many of our Mungo trips, helping people reconnect with nature.
Wildlife Guide | Mungo specialist
Karen Blake
Karen is a professional ornithologist with a passion for sharing the natural world. Having birded on six continents, she is a specialist bird guide and one of Australia's top pelagic birders. Karen loves watching seabirds, especially Wandering Albatrosses. She volunteers for numerous bird surveys and promotes an inclusive birding community.
Bird Guide | Wildlife Guide
Martin Cohen
Driven by a love for the natural world, Martin is a professional wildlife biologist with 30 years of experience. This work fuels his passion to educate and communicate the wonders of our natural world to our guests. Martin has led expedition cruises, overland safaris, and coordinated wildlife filming in Australia and overseas.
Wildlife Guide
Alison Orchard
With her vibrant personality Alison brings a unique outlook to our guests' experiences. An entomologist, Alison's fascination with insects blossomed into a passion for all things wild. Her understanding of Victoria's High Country, where she grew up, and the south coast, where she studied insect galls, offers a unique perspective on our tours.
Wildlife Guide | Insect Specialist
Mark Watson
With his passion and care for wildlife, nature and preserving the untouched beauty of places, Mark was destined to become a wildlife guide. Known for his humour and uncanny ability to find elusive creatures, he is also a remarkable birdwatching guide. He guides for us right across Australia from Ningaloo to the Top End and beyond.
Wildlife Guide | Bird Guide
Vici Hasenau
Vici looks after our Conservation Travel and Citizen Science programs. If you join one of our wildlife tours the first person you'll hear from afterwards will be Vici. She will send you your guides species list and a few weeks later you'll receive a specially curated online photo album showcasing the wildlife and places you visited.
Conservation Travel Advocate
Grant Palmer
As a wildlife ecologist and guide Grant has over 25 years experience across Australia. An author of two guidebooks, his expertise in wildlife identification and ecology comes from a background in scientific research and conservation work. He has guided diverse groups, providing wildlife encounters in many different landscapes.
Wildlife Guide
Kate Skelding
Kate has embraced a career as a wilderness guide, aligning her passion for the outdoors, environment, and conservation. She finds the natural world endlessly fascinating, exploring and learning from Australia's most stunning regions, including the Tiwi Islands, Cape York, and Queensland's Scenic Rim rainforests.
Wildlife Guide
Maddy Staff
A zoologist and conservation biologist, Maddy understands our environmental impact. Her passion for nature led her to ant research at Little Desert National Park, educating at Sea Life Melbourne, and contributing to Women in Wildlife Inc. An adventurous spirit, she's also hiked to Everest Base Camp and is an active diver and snorkeler.
Wildlife Guide | Land & water
Susie Lycett
Susie has a deep passion for sharing her love of nature, especially birds. She began her career as a zookeeper at Melbourne Zoo, before working at Alice Springs Desert Park and Edinburgh Zoo. With a graduate degree in Ornithology, she enjoys birding throughout Australia, Asia, and Central Africa.
bird guide | Wildlife Guide
Angus Hamilton
Angus is passionate about wildlife education and sharing stories to inform and inspire. His love for animals began when he was young, leading to ecological research and guiding in Madagascar and Malaysia. Returning home in 2020, he dedicated himself to helping people forge meaningful, lasting connections with wildlife.
Wildlife Guide | educator
