Active conservation projects in Australia
New or updated projects
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Healthy Ecosystems (Avon)
All ecosystems in the Avon region are vulnerable or threatened. In the context of this challenge, the Avon Catchment Council aims to protect and maint...
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Recovery and conservation of threatened macropods in Australia and New Guinea
WWF Australia is developing a Species Action Plan for threatened macropods of Australia and New Guinea, to guide recovery efforts with a view to ensur...
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Conservation in a Changing Climate: Facilitating Effective Adaptation to Climate Change
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Reducing Tropical Deforestation - Forest Carbon
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Last stand for temperate woodlands in Western Australia
Protecting temperate woodlands in Australia is a national priority. In the wheat belt of Western Australia temperate woodlands have been massively cle...
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Conserving Western Australia’s wetlands
The majority of the wetlands in Western Australia’s Swan Coastal Plain have been destroyed by decades of urban and rural development. It has been esti...
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Protecting Antarctica and the Southern Oceans
The Antarctic region is one of the most pristine wildernesses left on the planet. However, it is facing a number of threats, such as overfishing, poll...
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Pulling rock-wallabies from an extinction vortex
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Discovering Australia’s snubfin dolphin
A new species of dolphin was found in Australia’s northern waters in 2005. The discovery of the Australian snubfin – previously thought to be an Irraw...
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Biodiversity conservation in the Avon River Basin, Western Australia
The Avon River Basin covers 12 million hectares across much of Western Australia’s central wheat belt. Decades of intensive agriculture and developmen...
