Australian Conservation Foundation

The Australian Conservation Foundation ( ACF ) ( German: Australian Environment Foundation ) is a non-profit organization for the protection of nature and the environment. The charitable foundation was established in August 1966 in Melbourne and is dedicated to the sustainable nature conservation and environmental protection of national significance in Australia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea as the designation and management of protected areas, sustainable agriculture, forests and water protection, climate change impacts, ecological power generation, nuclear threats and nuclear energy as well as the Nature Conservation Act and environmental protection legislation.

Policy, organizational structure and financing

The ACF is committed to the interests of environmental protection and the environment, which are of national importance, but also supports local conservation initiatives, which are of great importance or could develop it. Be called by the ACF following key policy objectives: healthy air, land, water and biodiversity, sustainable urban development and sustainable industry for a nuclear- free Australia, and implementation of actions to protect the global environment. Advocacy and public relations determine the image of the Foundation to the outside.

The Australian Conservation Foundation stands before the Council of Representatives with 53 members elected for three years. The committee meets continuously and determines the priorities and policies of the Foundation. In 2005, Ian Lowe, a professor emeritus of Griffith University, was elected president, who succeeded Peter Garrett. Don Henry is executive director since 1998., The Executive Board of the Foundation consists of the president, two vice presidents, chancellors, four and four co-opted members, who are selected based on their qualifications and experience.

Approximately 90 % of the financing of the ACF is applied by its members and supporters, the rest is funded by the Australian Federal Government or selected companies. The revenue of the Foundation were, for example, within the period of one year in the period of 2007/2008 AUD $ 13,088,934 and 39,845 people were busy ..

History

In the 1960s, the Australian Conservation Foundation developed from dedicated scientists, government officials, politicians and business personalities. Pulse was the Duke of Edinburgh, the Francis Ratcliffe inspired to build a conservation organization. In August 1964, the Foundation was established in Canberra. The first conservation issues that have been edited, was the protection of Eucalyptus, Rainforest, Great Barrier Reef and areas in central Australia. Where it initially only went around protection from mining activities in the Great Barrier Reef.

The AFD moved in the 1970s to protect the eucalypts in Victoria, the Lake Pedder in Tasmania and whaling in the forefront of their activities. 1974 Australia wrote the Convention of UNESCO world heritage and the AFD nominated first Australian projects for inclusion on the list of world natural and cultural heritage world with the Great Barrier Reef and Fraser Island. ACF was involved in the protest against uranium mining in Australia in the Ranger uranium mine and worked with the Aborigines. Environmental pollution, climate change and population growth were the subject of their work.

In the 1980s, campaigns began to protect the Franklin River, one of the oldest rivers in the world, the protection of forests and succeeded the topical Daintree National Park in the list of UNESCO World Heritage entered. The ACT formed an alliance with the National Farmers Federation, a compound of sustainable agriculture undertook and continued in 1989 against a mining of the Antarctic. In the late 1980s, the Australian Conversation Foundation had become the leading and recognized conservation organization in Australia.

In the 1990s, the disappearance of the ozone layer has been a topic of environmental movement in Australia, as well as the creation of sustainable jobs and ecological genetics. In addition, the ACF dedicated to the indigenous life concerns about Australia beyond the Asia -Pacific region. During the mining projects at Coronation Hill and at the Ok Tedi mine in Papua - New Guinea The ACF established the Sustainable Energy Industries Council of Australia and the Australian Federal Government secured a reduction of greenhouse gases by 25 % by the year 2005. 1996 ACF brought a concept to improve the water quality of Australian rivers in the public debate, in particular the environmental problems on the Murray River were tackled. ACF and other environmental organizations took part in the blockade of the Jabiluka uranium mine, which led to a strong national and international media coverage.

In the first decade of the 2000s, the ACF of dealing with a long-term strategy to conserve nature. This project dealt with the water pollution control, the greenhouse gas reduction and energy efficiency, the tax reform under the primacy of the environment and of reconciliation between Aboriginal and Nichtaborigines, where the Aboriginal partnerships, especially in northern Australia were received. The activities of the ACF were directed towards the restoration of the Snowy River, preventing the storage of radioactive waste in South Australia, the stop large-scale land clearing in Queensland, the restoration of the site of the Jabiluka uranium mine and the designation of marine protected areas in Victoria. The soil salinity, the pollution of the water and energy made ​​the ACF of a national matter, led national actions on climate change and for the conservation of forests on the Murray River and in Tasmania. In August 2007, the ACF Campaign Who On Earth Cares began to reduce greenhouse gases, which deals with the climate change and to show the local impacts, Internet presentations are shown at the local level.

When run by the Australian Labor Party government of Julia Gillard came to power in June 2010, the ACF urged them to implement the science-based plan for the improvement of environmental conditions in the Murray - Darling Basin to create a network of marine protected areas, a green plan submitted to climate change, to control the Australian timber Import to integrate the area of the proposed uranium mine Koongarra in the Kakadu National Park and to develop a sustainable population policy and to pursue.

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