Noel Butler is an Indigenous Elder, Conservationist, Educator and Sustainability Advocate.
Noel is a Budawang Elder of the Yuin Nation on the South Coast of NSW. He has been working as a cultural educator for over 35 years, leading walks on country, holding cultural camps, and sharing his knowledge of Budawang people’s history, lore and stories.
His knowledge of the plants that have sustained, healed and helped the Yuin people for tens of thousands of years has passed down from his Elders to enable a sustainable lifestyle – even in a world that is now more foreign than the world of his forefathers. Noel is a regular speaker in Australia and overseas, including at the 2016 World Indigenous Conference on sustainability.