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=Conservation organisations=

What organisations/projects are already in place to conserve/protect Australian wildlife and rainforest (be specific to Australia)



 * Name: ** Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital


 * Location: ** Located near Australia Zoo at Beerwah in Queensland, Australia


 * Goal/aim: ** Take care of sick and injured animals/wildlife.

**Method/what they do:** a dedicated rescue team operates from the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital, collecting sick, injured and orphaned koalas and other native wildlife within south-east Queensland. These patients are provided with first-class care and rehabilitation before being released back into the wild.


 * When started: ** March 2004


 * Website: ** http://wildlifewarriors.org.au/wildlife_hospital/


 * Your opinion: ** I think the wildlife hospital do a wonderful job in taking care of the animals because without them there could be a lot of injured animals with no support or at the least barely any. Running for years they are still up and running with heaps of animals going in everyday for treatment. The wildlife hospital mainly takes care of local animals like koala and kangaroos. I think this organization does a wonderful job in the way t hey organize and manage all the animals. Ifyou love animals and you want to help donate money to the Australian zoo or the Australian zoo wildlife hospital.


 * Name: ** Tasmanian devil Conservation


 * Location: ** Australia Zoo  1638 Steve Irwin Way Beerwah  QLD 4519 Australia


 * Goal/aim: ** Raise awareness and funds for Tasmanian devil Facial Tumor Disease (DFTD)

Raise money by getting sponsors and they also run a day called black and white which is held on the 16th May every year, which is where they get people to who are coming through the zoo that day to wear black and white clothing that day in the zoo and through out that day you can enter a completion and which is wear the judge who has the best black and white clothing on and they win a special prize, they came up with black and white day in 2006 because the is what colour fur that the tassie devil has. 100% of the funds, which is from people coming through and paying the admission fee
 * Method/what they do: The Tasmanian Devil Conservation (TDC) **


 * When started: ** November 2006


 * Success rate: ** Last year’s black and white day they raised $20,000 (16th May 2012)


 * Website: ** http://www.tassiedevil.com.au/tasdevil.nsf/

I think raising 20,000 grand in one year is a wonderful success that is a good start on the track of saving the Tasmanian devils from becoming extinct. I really hope that the tassie devil doesn’t become extinct because I have never seen one in a zoo or the wild and I would really like to. I think the idea of black and white day is a great success not just for the animals but for the visitors of the zoo because they get to get dressed up, and while they get dressed up in black and white clothes all the money from that day goes directly to the Tasmanian devil fund.
 * Your opinion: **


 * Name: ** Living With Wildlife


 * Location: ** Australia Zoo 1638 Steve Irwin Way Beerwah QLD 4519 Australia


 * Goal/Aim: ** Prevent loss of the wildlife habitat


 * Method/what they do: ** They do fundraising to buy more trees for the area because they can’t do anything about people cutting down the trees.


 * Success rate **** : ** In Southern and Western Queensland they have over 90,00 acres of wildlife safe environment and trees.


 * Website: ** http://www.wildlifewarriors.org.au/australian_conservation/safe-habitats.html

I think this organisati on has done really well to get approx. 90,00 acres of wildlife safe, which means that the wildlife has actually a place to call home. I think in a few years time if everyone in Australia could help we could have the whole of Australia in wildlife safe places so for that to happen we need to stop chopping trees down and running the environment.
 * My Opinion: **


 * Name: ** Steve Irwin Day


 * Location: ** Australia Zoo, Queensland, Victoria, Australia


 * Goal/aim: ** To celebrate the life of Steve Irwin by raising money for Australia Zoo and to also help preserve wildlife and wild places.


 * Method/what they do: ** Australia Zoo hold a day called KHAKI which is where they hold all different games and activities for kids based all about animals and how we can save them and also the activities are based on remembering the life of Steve Irwin. All the profits made from this day go to helping the Australia zoo wildlife warriors.


 * Website: ** http://www.steveirwinday.org/


 * My Opinion: ** I think this day is a great day because the Australian Zoo wildlife warriors do a brilliant job in taking care of other flora and fauna with no return which means they take up a lot of hours volunteering, and getting paid to animals so they have decided that any money they raise during this day will go towards the Australian Zoo wildlife Warriors also trying to make a difference in the animals lives and stopping them getting killed off or becoming endangered.




 * Name: ** Crocodile Research Trip


 * Location: ** Australia Zoo


 * Goal/aim ** : Protect the crocs in loss of habitat


 * Method/what they do: ** The Australian Zoo Wildlife Warriors and Partners in partnership with the QLD university send out a few people to help capture these crocodiles and take them to a safer environment especially in the time of floods.


 * Success Rate: ** A couple of year s ago (2010) they caught/captured 13 crocodiles and took them to a safer place in the floods.


 * Website: ** http://www.australiazoo.com.au/conservation/projects/crocodiles/


 * My Opinion: ** In my opinion I believe that going and rescuing crocs in times like the flood is an awesome idea I first read this program information and was like that is horrible but then in the end I finally figured out what it meant. This campaign started in 2010 by Steve Irwin and the university of QLD and is still running to this date even Steve Irwin passed away.




 * Name: ** Save Steve’s Place


 * Location: ** Queensland’ Cape York Peninsula


 * Goal/aim: ** Is to stop the strip mining in the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve (SIWR)


 * Method/what they do ** : They have come up with a hardcopy and a online petition, which is where you put your name down or your signature and if they get a certain amount of names or signatures they will actually do something about this cause but they have still raised over 10 million dollars from fundraising and many other little events over the past 3 years. Every little cent counts.


 * Success Rate: ** 50 miillion dollars has been raised from many events over 3 years

Website: http://www.savestevesplace.com/

I think this program has raised a good smount of money ver the past 3 years and they need more money so that animals can have a home and so that queensland can a say they have a beautiful reserve which are home for many animals and it makes the suburb/town/country more beautiful.
 * My Opinion: **



=** Don’t palm us off **=


 * Don’t palm us off is aimed to save the habitat of animals living on the islands of Indonesia, such as Sumatra and Borneo.
 * ===== The goal is to inform the Australian public of what goes into our food and how they can help to save these animals, by writing to the companies who use unsustainable palm oil. Zoos victoria also want every Australian food that uses palm oil to use 100% certified sustainable palm oil, and the labeling of palm oil on foods that contain it should become compulsory. =====
 * ===== Palm oil is an oil t hat goes into foods, cosmetics and a lot of things we buy from the supermarket. =====
 * ===== To grow palm oil, they must first cut down the forests where the orangutans, Sumatran tigers and Asian elephants live, to make room for the plantations of palm oil. =====
 * ===== They cut down the forest at a rate of 50 soccer fields per hour. =====
 * ===== This leaves the orangutans with no food to eat, and no trees to live in. the orangutans cant live in the palm oil trees, because they are too low to the ground, which means the orangutans cant climb in live in them. If they enter the plantations, they get shot, unless they are a baby, in which case the mum gets shot and the baby sold to someone as a pet in another country. =====
 * ===== There are three types of food. The first type of food has no palm oil, or uses rspo sustainable palm oil. The second type of food is the food manufactured by companies who are going to switch from unsustainable palm to using rspo sustainable palm oil by 2015. The third type of company is company is a company who uses unsustainable palm oil, and isn’t planning to make the switch. =====
 * ===== Zoos victoria encourages people to write to these companies, asking for them to make the switch. =====
 * ===== I think this is a great campaign because it not only helps out the animals in Indonesia, but it helps us to know what we eat, and how we can make a change to do good for the world. =====

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= = = They’re calling on you =

= = = = = Beads for wildlife =
 * They’re calling on you was created by zoos victoria to help the western lowlands gorilla, which is critically endangered.
 * The biggest threat to gorillas in the wild is habitat destruction.
 * Coltan is a mineral that is in many electronic devices such as mobile phones and iPods.
 * You can help by donating your old phone to Melbourne zoo, which then sell the coltan back to mobile phone companies, who recycle it into new mobile phones, getting rid of the need to mine for coltan in the gorilla’s habitat.
 * 14 other zoos, aquariums and conservation organizations around the world, have adopted this program.
 * By January 2012, zoos victoria had collected 52 000 mobile phones, and sold them back to mobile phone companies, making 109 000 dollars for gorilla conservation.
 * I think this program is great, because it has been a huge triumph for zoos victoria, because they created something that has become a huge success. It is also modern day recycling, meaning it involves things that are new out.
 * Some people may disagree with it however, because there will be less jobs in the industry in the Congo where coltan is mined, and more jobs in another country where coltan is recycled, which is likely to be china or America, where there is already a lot of jobs.


 * Beads for wildlife was created to help the communities where the giraffe, African elephant and grevys zebra live, and to also help out those animals.
 * They live in northern Kenya
 * The wildlife has to compete with the livestock for food and water.
 * The wildlife often would get killed, because the people who lived there needed the land for their livestock, which they would later eat or sell.
 * This led to the grevys zebra becoming critically endangered. Zoos victoria works with the women of the community of melako.
 * They create beadwork, which can be brought at any of the three zoos, and online at [].
 * The money of this purchase goes directly back to the women who make it, which means they don’t have to rely on livestock for an income. So far, zoos victoria has sold 74000 beadworks, making around $236 217 for the 600 women who make it



= Seal the loop =
 * Many seals get tangled in fishing line whilst out swimming in the bay, often causing death.
 * Zoos victoria decided that they needed to put out tangle bins, so fishermen have somewhere to put their tangled lines.
 * Zoos victoria decided to recycle the plastic bottles that get recycled at Melbourne zoo into the seal the loop tangle bins
 * There are 60 seal the loop bins placed around the coast of victoria
 * On average, 25 of these collects 1.5km of tangled fishing line a month.

= Wash for wildlife = = Wipe for wildlife =
 * Wash for wildlife was created to help animals such as the platypus and many other types of animals that live in victoria’s rivers.
 * Phosphate is a type of chemical found it washing detergent
 * It is toxic for these animals and often results in the death of them, because it often runs into our rivers once it is done washing our clothes.
 * Zoos victoria urges people to make the switch from detergents that contain phosphate to phosphate free detergents. It also urges companies that put phosphate in their detergents to make the switch to being phosphate free.
 * This campaign has been so successful that the government has decided to place a ban on phosphates in detergents, as of June 30


 * Wipe for wildlife was created to help Australian animals that live in forests.
 * Every year, Australians flush millions of trees down the toilet
 * These trees are where the animals are from
 * Zoos victoria saw there was a need to teach the public about recycled toilet paper, and how that can help save these animals because we don’t need to cut down there home.

= Love your locals (not on our watch) = = =


 * 80% of Australia’s flora and fauna only exist in Australia
 * Australia has the worst extinction rate in the world
 * Since people have lived in Australia, it is estimated that over 50 species of birds and mammals have become extinct
 * Zoos victoria has made a pledge that no Victorian vertebrate species is going to go extinct. (And a few others from around Australia)
 * They do this by running breading programs for the 20 most threatened species in Australia, by educating the public through both at the zoos and as advertising

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