You can help protect our most vulnerable wildife and stop nature destruction from going under the radar - before it's too late.
In a country as big as Australia, it is too easy for bulldozing of wildlife homes to go unseen and undocumented.
And it is driving our precious wildlife – like the critically endangered Regent honeyeater – to the brink of extinction faster than ever before.
Last year, ACF's expert environmental investigators flew over one of the last remaining breeding grounds of the Regent honeyeater near Armidale in New South Wales.
They found over 60 MCG field’s worth of trees the Regent honeyeaters call home were gone. Bulldozed. Destroyed for beef farming.
With only 250 Regent honeyeaters left in the wild, destruction like this only pushes this beautiful native songbird ever closer to extinction. Tragically, with so few other birds to learn from, the young male Regent honeyeaters are forgetting their song.
This destruction of Regent honeyeater habitat was uncovered by ACF’s crowd-sourced investigation program, ACF Investigates.
The rate of our wildlife becoming threatened is increasing, not reducing. If we don’t act now, we risk losing animals like our Regent honeyeaters forever.
It’s why we urgently need your help to uncover hidden nature destruction – before it’s too late.
Your gift today can help support the ground-breaking work of ACF’s Investigations Unit by:
- Dramatically expanding the next rollout of ACF Investigates to cover twice as many hectares of at-risk habitat over more time.
- Pursue urgent leads generated through investigative site visits, detailed desktop research, and drone footage.
- Expose and stop nature destruction faster than ever before.
ACF’s Environmental Investigator and mastermind behind ACF Investigates, Kim Garratt, shares more about the program:
“Using just their mobile phone or their own computer, a volunteer takes 10 minutes to help scan side-by-side satellite images of an area of at-risk native habitat. They then flag anything that looks like intentional land clearing, and any flagged images will be reviewed by our experts.”
We urgently need to run another crowd-sourced investigation this November, and this year, we need to go bigger.
But running large-scale, impactful projects like this is only possible with support from nature-lovers like you.
With your help, we’ll aim to cover twice as much ground and put a stop to deforestation that’s in progress. With your help, we can spot more of the nature destruction that goes on under the radar in Australia, more quickly.
And the sooner we spot habitat destruction, the sooner we stop it. Critically endangered species like the Regent honeyeater need this speed of action if they're going to survive.
Please donate by 30 June to help support the ground-breaking work of our Investigations Unit, and help protect our most vulnerable wildlife – before it's too late.
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