Anthony Broese van Groenou

Sustainable development practitioner, environmentalist, musician.

Anthony is currently studying Environmental Management and Sustainable Development at the University of Queensland. His extensive international background includes work in television, environmental development and Indigenous culture.

Anthony has traveled extensively in over 25 countries. In 2000 Anthony received an Ambassadorial Scholarship for the Rotary Youth Exchange in South America, and went on to work as a vet assistant, research assistant and education officer at Aviarios del Caribe, a sloth sanctuary in Costa Rica in 2003.

In 2003 Anthony was a Production Assistant for the BBC Natural Histories Unit, providing advice, facilitation, guidance and support for sound and camera departments in addition to animal handling for a documentary on Costa Rican sloths. Anthony then went on to assist in editing a four-part series on troubled children which was aired on Oprah/Harpo Enterprises in New York in 2005.

Anthony’s environmental and Indigenous interests grew in 1999 when he worked with Environmental Consultancy group Arnhem Environmental Impact Assessors (ongoing). In 2006 he was awarded a scholarship from the Australian Greenhouse Office, ‘Green Steps’ and went on to provide consultation services. Anthony’s sustainability education then continued when he became a Research assistant for ‘Ecospecifier’ a sustainable building knowledge foundation. He also took courses in straw bale building, employee owned businesses and received a scholarship/internship with the Yestermorrow design build school Vermont in 2007.

In addition Anthony has been the proprietor of Native Harmonics Fair Trade (Bolivia – Peru – USA – Australia) since 2004, volunteered with the Red Blanket Gathering in the Bunya Mountains in 2007, and accompanied Nikki and Jim on their early 2007 Pipe Ceremony around parts of Australia. Anthony is passionate about Indigenous issues and achieving Environmental sustainability in global communities.