Phillip Toyne AO (16 November 1947 – 13 June 2015) was an Australian environmental and Indigenous rights activist, lawyer, and founder of Landcare Australia.

[1] He first earned a law degree,[2] and then received a Diploma of Education from La Trobe University in 1973.

He was the only teacher at an Aboriginal school at Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory, and then worked as a solicitor and barrister in Alice Springs.

[4][1] Later in life he helped to establish a project in which the Olkola people of the Cape York Peninsula practise traditional burning as part of a Commonwealth government carbon farming initiative, called Natural Carbon.

[3] Toyne was awarded the title of Officer of the Order of Australia in 2012, "For distinguished service to environmental law through executive and advisory roles, particularly the introduction of a National Landcare Program, to the protection and restoration of Australian landscapes, and to the Indigenous community.