A founding member and former President and Treasurer of Nature Conservation Margaret River Region (previously Cape to Cape Catchment Group), Margaret Moir has been a conservation trailblazer in the Margaret River area since the early 1990s.

To build capacity, improve ecological outcomes and bring her local community together, Margaret launched a series of highly successful river restoration workshops to mentor local landholders, eventually securing funding from the Natural Heritage Trust. Supported by Margaret’s regeneration work including prolific re-planting of over 3000 local species, the river has become a refuge for river rats, quenda, fire-tailed finches, mussels and turtles.

Margaret is also well known in the region for her extensive work on weeds and weed education. Recognising a lack of access to educational resources was leading to mass planting of eastern state wattles and eucalypts that were overtaking native vegetation, Margaret secured funding for pamphlets and later a glovebox guide on which woody plants to avoid when visiting local nurseries. Her advocacy has also led to local nurseries no longer selling non-native woody vegetation.