Torgersen Gilbey develop vegetation management plans for golf courses councils schools

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Torgersen Gilbey provides comprehensive biodiversity and sustainability consulting services.

We specialise in plant selection, vegetation and biodiversity management plans, environmental audits, iNaturalist support, social media assistance and more.

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'Kate and Monina provided training in how to use the iNaturalist app and created the 13th Beach Golf Links Biodiversity Project as a member of Golf Fore Nature. It is a fantastic project to be part of and has enabled many of our members to share their love of the birds and animals on our course.'

Rob Hurley, General Manager
13th Beach Golf Links

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Kate Torgersen

Kate has over 20 years of practical and academic experience in the golf course and conservation industries working on several highly-ranked Australian golf courses.

Kate holds a Diploma of Conservation Land Management and is a qualified greenkeeper. She has worked at some of Victoria's most prestigious golf courses where she discovered a passion and need to assist and showcase the positive contribution of golf courses to the environment and the community.

Gaining extensive experience in the conservation industry, Kate has managed several large projects converting mown areas into native areas and developed wide-ranging vegetation management plans which have assisted a number of clubs around Australia to become more biodiverse and environmentally sustainable.

Her passion to educate has been showcased in the regular environmental articles written for the turfgrass management journal, through seminars and presentations within the industry and wider sports sustainability community.

Monina Gilbey

Monina is a qualified garden designer and a garden educator and has experience working with local, State and Federal Governments. She is the former Biodiversity Manager at Glenelg Golf Club.

Monina is passionate about Adelaide’s local flora and fauna and the contribution that golf courses make to urban biodiversity. Working with the Glenelg Golf team, Monina helped to raise the national environmental profile of the club. She has written industry articles and delivered presentations at local, national and international conferences.

In 2022, Monina was co-winner of the Claude Crockford Environment and Sustainability Award – Monina is the second woman to win the award in 24 years and was the first woman to appear in the Syngenta Turfectionist series.

Monina was instrumental in Glenelg Golf Club becoming finalists in the biodiversity category of the 2022 National Banksia Sustainability and Environment Awards. In 2024, she received the National Parks and Leisure Environmental Stewardship Award and became a Councillor on the board of Parks and Leisure Australia SA/NT.