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How your donations are helping our most vulnerable wildlife
While the fires may have eased in south-east Queensland, the work is ongoing for wildlife carers and their charges. Here’s how your donated funds are helping.
While the fires may have eased in south-east Queensland, the work is ongoing for wildlife carers and their charges. Here’s how your donated funds are helping.
Make a difference. Please donate today. Funds raised will help save and support urban and suburban powerful owls into the future.
Each calendar year the Australian Geographic Society donates generously to scientific, conservation, environmental and adventure projects.
Money from the fundraiser will be dispersed to support wildlife rescue and rehabilitation, habitat restoration and communities devastated by the fires.
Glossy black-cockatoos face a tough future. Listed as vulnerable in NSW, the species has specialist dietary and nesting needs, eating only the cones of a few species of she-oak and nesting exclusively in the hollows of old-growth gums. Habitat loss has reduced both resources.
Victor Vescovo meets the Tassie devil, and a snuggle of irresistible baby bandicoots.
On Friday, 1 November 2019, we toasted the achievements of some of Australia’s greatest conservationists and adventurers at the annual Australian Geographic Society Gala Awards night in Sydney, with special guest Victor Vescovo.
Nick Gleeson has taken out the Australian Geographic Spirit of Adventure Award for 2019.
Michelle Lee has won the Adventurer of the Year award after becoming first Australian woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Mal Leyland is the winner of the Lifetime of Adventure award for 2019.