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Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Wildlife Watch Australia


Wildlife Watch Australia is a non-profit organization, founded in Australia in 2008, Glenn Allen, director of the organization and public relations.

Main objective of wildlife shows Australia is to raise funds for the purchase of land in regional and outback areas in Australia for the restoration and conservation.  Protected areas are used as shelter for wildlife already living on earth as it relocated to a new home for wildlife and a site for tree planting.

The Wilderness Society (TWS)

The Wilderness Society (TWS)

The Wilderness Society (TWS) is an Australian community-based non-profit NGO for environmental protection. Its purpose is to protect, promote and restore wilderness and natural processes across Australia for the survival and ongoing evolution of life on Earth .

It 'a community based organization philosophy of nonviolence and consensus decision-making. While the Wilderness Society is a group of politically non-aligned, is active in lobbying of politicians and political parties
The Wilderness Society has a number of separately incorporated organizations, the campaign centers are located in all Australian capital cities (except Darwin) and several regional centers.

Public Transport Users Association

Public Transport Users Association

Users of public transport is a community-based association group public transport in the lobby of Victoria, Australia, Melbourne.

Landcare Australia Limited

Landcare Australia Limited

Land Care Australia Limited is a partnership between the Community, government and industry to carry out the environmental protection in Australia. Land Care Australia Limited is a non-profit, apolitical, non-partisan organization does not lobby, and is not an NGO. Care and most of the land care groups are allowed to coast to pressure and see themselves as advocacy groups.

Landcare Australia Limited (the organization, often abbreviated LAL) formed the Commonwealth Government 10 October 1989 , a private nonprofit to run a national campaign to raise awareness and patronage of the decade Landcare.LAL established as part of the decade Landcare landcarers awareness and corporate sponsorship.

Care countries (the movement) is a unique partnership between the Australian government and business, which consists of approximately 4000 and 2000 Land Care groups coast care volunteers.

Greening Australia

Greening Australia

Greening Australia is an Australian environment that was founded in 1982, the International Year of the tree to protect, restore and preserve the native vegetation of Australia. Greening Australia was formed by the United Nations Association of Australia and the Nursery Industry Association of Australia.

In 1980, the decrease in forest cover has been recognized as having a serious negative impact on agricultural and pastoral productivity. The removal of forest cover has also been associated with the development of the degradation of soil salinity, and decreased erosion and water quality. During the World Environment Day in 1982, then Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser announced the creation of the National Tree Program, which aims to reverse the decline of trees in Australia. Greening Australia provided the arms of the non-governmental National Tree Program. With representation in each state and territory and a national office in Canberra, Greening Australia has become the main objective of the projects of NGOs trees.

Greening Australia has been involved in many projects, large-scale revegetation and restoration in Australia since its inception, including the National Tree Program, the project of one billion trees, support Bushcare Corrdiors National Green Corps and Green Florabank. The focus of his work lies in the provision of trees and tree planting services, technical assistance and education, volunteer coordination and funding of restoration projects.

Since its inception, Greening Australia was a natural development over the years - from the tree planting, landscape-centric organization focused on one. Gondwana link river restoration projects reflect this change and the need to address the impacts of climate change.

During the World Environment Day 1998, the work of greening Australia recognized access to United Nations Environment Programme Global 500 Roll of Honour.

Environment Victoria

Environment Victoria

Environment Victoria is an Australian non-profit, charitable group, and Victoria Peak environmental non-governmental organization. It works with over 150 groups throughout Australia to protect the environment and in Victoria on the financial support of donors, members, grants and sponsorships.

Clean Ocean Foundation

Clean Ocean Foundation


Clean Ocean Foundation is an environmental organization dedicated to the closure of the sewage of the sea in Victoria (Australia). It 'was formed in 2000, surfers who have upset a high level of pollution Mornington Peninsula surf beaches as Gunnamatta.

The Foundation has been at the forefront of a campaign to close the Gunnamatta Outfall pipeline in South East beach, where partially treated sewage deposits from the city of Melbourne, sent to the Eastern Treatment Plant to maintain Melbourne Water . This has proven to be successful and the eastern treatment plant is planned to update the standard class treatment by 2012. This victory, the Foundation is now working for the recycling of all waste water from 144 outfalls around Australia.

The Foundation has also successfully lobbied the NHMRC guidelines for recreational water Australian who rose to match the criteria of the World Health Organization.

Clean Ocean mission, said on its website is "To protect our ocean ecosystem and establish sustainable management practices of water"

Blue Wedges

Blue Wedges is a conservation organization in conflict with the policy of the Government of Victoria in Australia to deepen shipping channels in Port Phillip and the large-scale development of the Westernport Ramsar List. The blue shutters is a coalition of over 65 user groups and environmental development across the bay in the Bay of Melbourne considered unsustainable, and that the Port of Melbourne channel deepening project of the Company. The Blue Wedges Coalition includes groups and organizations of anglers, professional groups, fishing, diving and charter and coastal protection and traditional industrial sectors in Bayside.
Blue Wedges Coalition is supported in its aim to protect the bays with other environmental organizations, such as the Victorian National Parks Association, Australian Conservation Foundation, Friends of the Earth, Wilderness Society, Environment Victoria, Port Phillip Council and the keeping of Western 'Agency Region under the Joint Declaration, these groups oppose the project, and where you should stop the project of the Victorian Government.
In Victoria, the name "blue spots" was created after the previous policy of "greenways" government for the preservation of rural and forest areas on the edge of metropolitan Melbourne expanding. Greenways is a current government policy environment.
In December 2007 it was announced that the blue corner led to the Federal Court against the State to prevent the signing of the project to deepen the shipping channel. The hearing was held in January 2008,  with the Federal Court to rule against the Blue Wedges January 15, 2008.  On January 30, 2008, Blue Wedges won a stay of the Federal Court with a hearing date of February 20, 2008 . After mediation between blue spots and the Port of Melbourne Corporation (the organization responsible for the operations of the depth) on February 6, 2008 , limited operations were allowed to begin February 8, 2008.

Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union,

Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union,

Australian Real Ornithologists Union, also known as birds in Australia, was founded in 1901 to promote the study and conservation of native bird species of Australia and adjacent regions. This makes it the oldest national association of Australia's bird watching. It is also Australia's largest non-governmental, nonprofit bird conservation organization. In 1996, he adopted the trade name in Australia for most of the birds for public purposes, while retaining its original name for legal purposes and the editor of the Journal of the EMU.

Raoui Project was initiated by the Atlas of Australian birds. It 'also a publisher (in collaboration with Oxford University Press) is the Manual encyclopedia of Australia, New Zealand and Antarctic birds. Its quarterly journal is a member of the wingspan of color. Raoui is an Australian partner, BirdLife International. Raoui motto is "Conservation through knowledge."

Banksia Environmental Foundation

Banksia Environmental Foundation

Banksia Environmental Foundation is an Australian organization was founded in 1989 to support and recognize individuals and organizations that have a positive impact on the environment. The Foundation initiated the Banksia Environmental Awards in the same year. The annual Banksia Awards, seen as the most prestigious environmental awards in Australia right.

Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC)

Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC)

Australian Wildlife (AWC) is an Australian independent organization working to preserve endangered species and ecosystems in Australia, mainly through the acquisition of large areas on which to establish conservation reserves (called "sanctuaries"). These sanctuaries are managed for conservation and also support research programs. Funding comes from tax deductible donations from public and government grants for specific purposes, such as the Australian Government National Reserve System Program.

In June 2007, AWC has announced the creation of a corporate partnership with Movistar. In 2011, the AWC owns and operates 21 shelters with a total area of ​​26,000 square kilometers (10,000 square miles), more land than any other non-governmental environmental organization in Australia.

Australian Network of Environmental Defenders Offices (ANEDO)

Australian Network of Environmental Defenders Offices


The Australian network of offices environmentalists (ANEDO) consists of nine centers created and managed independent community environmental law located in each state and territory in Australia.  ANEDO is remarkable, as Australia's largest organization of public awareness of environmental law.

ANED provides legal support in court cases on the environment. ANED also plays an advocacy role, lobbying on issues of environment .

Australian Koala Foundation (AKF)

Australian Koala Foundation (AKF)

The Australian Koala Foundation (ARF) is an international nonprofit scientific aims to reduce threats to the survival of koalas and thus sensitize the global community to help save the animals and plants threatened with extinction. It is the largest non-profit, nongovernmental organization dedicated to the conservation and effective management of the wild koala and its habitat.

Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF)

Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF)

The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) is an Australian non-profit community organization focused on environmental advocacy, policy research and outreach.