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Links to Nature Conservation
The
Wilderness Society is a national, community-based, environmental
advocacy organization whose mission is to protect, promote and secure
the future of wilderness and other high conservation areas.
The
Australian Wildlife Conservancy is playing a vital role in saving
Australia's unique native animals from extinction. The Australian
Wildlife Conservancy is a charitable organisation funded by donations
from the public, and owns or leases over 450,000 hectares of precious
Australian bush. This land is actively managed for conservation and to
ensure a future for Australia's native animals. Conservancy based
tourism and guided walks at some of our sanctuaries provide a wonderful
opportunity for visitors to see and to understand the plight of these
threatened species. The extinction of many of our threatened native
mammals is a real possibility unless we can act quickly and decisively
to save them. Please join us in our work to save these threatened
creatures and their habitat.
Greenpeace
Greenpeace is an independent organization campaigning to ensure a just, peaceful,
sustainable environment for future generations.
Threatened
Species Network This website contains information about the hundreds of plants, animals and ecological communities threatened with extinction
throughout Australia and most importantly, what you can do to help save them.
Earth Sanctuaries Limited
(ESL) is a conservation
company dedicated to saving Australia's wildlife. ESL purchases blocks of land
and actively manages them by erecting feral-proof fences and eradicating all
the foxes, cats, goats, rabbits and other feral animals within the fence.
Revegetation programs are implemented, and when the habitat is ready, native
animals that originally lived there are re-introduced into the protected area.
Ecotourism, education and other cash flow activities are then developed to fund
the conservation work.
It is ESL's mission to save Australia's remaining
threatened wildlife before any more species become extinct. This is being done
by harnessing the marketplace. ESL currently has over 4400 shareholders from
around the world contributing to ESL's mission. We believe Earth Sanctuaries is
the only publicly listed company in the world with the core business of
conservation. Finally, there is a solution for people being able to make money
while sustaining the diversity of life on this planet.
Bush
Heritage is Australia's only national organization dedicated to acquiring and
managing high conservation value private land. A significant proportion of
Australia's native flora and fauna live on privately-owned land. Their survival
is threatened daily by activities such as land clearing, building and bad
management practices.
Bush Heritage focuses on acquiring and preserving areas of
habitat which are liable to be sold and subjected to inappropriate development.
We are able to do this because of financial and other support received from a
growing number of people around Australia and overseas who recognise the need to
protect these important natural areas before it's too late.
The
Australian Conservation Foundation is dedicated to the environment. For more
than 30 years, ACF has voiced the desire of Australians to look after our
natural heritage, uniting progress and environmental protection.
A national non-profit organization, it campaigns
with the guidance and support of the community. Membership of ACF is encouraged
and is open to everyone.
Descriptions
of Natural World Heritage Properties
COUNTRY Australia - Queensland
NAME Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site, incorporating 19
national parks, 31 state forests (or parts thereof), five timber reserves and
one Aboriginal and Islander reserve.
The
Natural Step is an international organization that uses a science-based,
systems framework to help organizations and communities understand and move
towards sustainability. Australian
site.
Pearcedale
Conservation Park is situated on 25 acres of semi-bushland. The park aims to
present a comprehensive and cohesive ecological environment which includes low
energy facilities and reinstated flora and fauna similar to that which existed
200 years ago. Over 6000 indigenous trees and other shrubs have been planted on
the degraded farmland, a wetland created and a fox proof fence.
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