Corporate Body

Australian Conservation Foundation (1966 - )

From: 1966
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Functions: Conservation or Environment, Association and Society or Membership Organisation
Website: http://www.acfonline.org.au
Location: Floor 1, 60 Leicester Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053

Summary

The Australian Conservation Foundation was established in 1966. The Foundation is a non-profit environment group that is membership-based. Tasks undertaken by the Foundation include natural heritage protection, water resource management and endangered species protection.

Related People

Black, Andrew Barham
Member of Council 1985 - 1987
Bonython, Charles Warren (1916 - 2012)
Member of the Executive 1965 - 1973
Goode, Dewar Wilson (1907 - 2002)
Foundation member of the Australian Conservation Foundation
McMichael, Donald Fred (1932 - 2017)
Inaugural Director 1967 - 1968
Moriarty, Oliver M.
Campaigned against the Australian Conservation Foundation, believing they were destroying rather than conserving the alpine country
Ratcliffe, Francis Noble (1904 - 1970)
Founding Member and Secretary 1966 - 1970
Snape, Brian
Foundation Member 1966
Turner, John Stewart (1908 - 1991)
Foundation Member 1966 - 1973
Webb, Leonard James (1928 - 2008)
Member of Council 1965
Wettenhall, Henry Norman Burgess (1915 - 2000)
Member of Council and Executive 1965 - 1969

Published resources

Books

Broadbent, Beverley, Inside the Greening: 25 years of the Australian Conservation Foundation (Elwood, Victoria: Insite Press, 1999), 299 pp. Details
Mosley, John Geoffrey, Battle for the Bush: the Blue Mountains, the Australian Alps and the origins of the wilderness movement (Sydney: Envirobook, 1999), 174 pp. Details

Journal Articles

Warhurst, John, 'The Australian Conservation Foundation: the development of a modern environmental interest group', Environmental politics 3(1):68-90, 3 (1) (1994), 68-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644019408414125. Details

Resources

Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q781374. Details
VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/157613437. Details
Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-458359. Details

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