Media releases: Healthy Country
Bushfires: frequently asked questions
Fire danger is increasing around the country (Photo: Sally Edwards)
The Australian Conservation Foundation answers some frequently asked questions about bushfires and their management, and how we might reduce the risk of days like Black Saturday occurring again. more »
Future food and farming
The Australian Conservation Foundation’s Future Food & Farm Project aims to explore how government, and all of us, can shape a more sustainable food system - from paddock to plate. It’s time to seriously re-think the future of food and farming. more »
Bird populations are in serious decline across Australia, with the primary driver changing weather patterns, including a lack of rainfall and higher temperatures. However, experts say the predicted rate of extinction could be halved or even stopped with investment into research.
Help save the Brown Mountain from logging
Felled giants at Brown Mountain
VicForests, a state government body, plans to clearfell East Gippsland’s Brown Mountain forests. Environment East Gippsland urgently need thousands of dollars for the legal case to stop these ancient ‘wildlife arks’ being destroyed, mostly for woodchips. more »
Paddock to Plate: re-thinking food and farming
Patterns of growth. Photo by ecstaticist, flickr
Victorian farming will need to undergo sweeping changes in the next decade if the state’s food and farming systems are to be competitive, sustainable, healthy and profitable in the future. more »
Call for carbon emission funds to improve ecology, health
Alexia Gratelle on a bush hike in Hawksbury
ACF and the National Rural Health Alliance have called on the Federal Government to invest at least 20 per cent of the revenue raised through the sale of permits from the proposed CPRS in improving the environment and the health of rural communities. more »
Submission to the Vic. Bushfire Royal Commission
Fighting the bush fires
The catastrophic wildfire event which struck across central Victoria on Saturday 7 February was Australia’s worst natural disaster in the last 100 years. Read ACF's submission to the Victorian Bushfire Royal Commission. more »
The science of bushfires and climate change
Bush firefighters
Professor David Karoly from the University of Melbourne’s School of Earth Sciences discusses how the record heatwaves and prolonged drought prior to the February 2009 bushfires in Victoria could be linked directly to climate change. more »
Brumby Government protecting paddocks instead of 500-year-old forests
East Gippsland. Photo by Ivan Carter
An investigative report released Monday 25 May reveals that the Brumby Government is breaking a 2006 election promise by protecting paddocks and previously logged areas instead of Victoria’s ancient old growth forests. more »
Delivering on the promise of stewardship
give wildlife a fighting chance - new CSIRO report looks at the role stewardship payments to landholders can play
A strong national stewardship scheme could see more than 65 million hectares managed for conservation by 2020 - giving wildlife and landholders a fighting chance in a changing climate, the ACF said. more »
Updates on Gunns Pulp Mill
Rejection of pulp mill conditions - the right decision (5 Jan 2009)Addendum to ACF pulp mill briefing (September 2007)
Proposed decision and conditions for Tasmanian pulp mill proposal (September 2007)
Thinking beyond the farm gate
Drought affects us all
We need to think creatively; to re-design farming and go beyond agriculture, to ways of using the land that respect its natural limits, that leave room enough for our native wildlife, yield decent livelihoods, and vitality back... more »