🇦🇺Australia

Walkers with dogs, drone pilots and boaters have become sawfish scientists, and their photos have turned up sawfish in Mackay and Moreton Bay, where populations were thought to have vanished.

One of the world's longest-running grassroots seed-saving movements, linking more than 100 volunteer-run Local Seed Networks across Australia to keep heirloom food-plant varieties alive in home gardens.

Aboriginal-owned ALFA (NT) Limited pays Traditional Owners to burn Arnhem Land the old way, turning ancient fire knowledge into carbon credits that fund rangers and community programs.

As Australia's 2019-20 megafires closed in, this research charity raced to rescue a genetically vital koala colony, then tracked and rebuilt the burned bushland they depend on.

Martu Traditional Owners run four ranger teams protecting threatened desert wildlife and culture across millions of hectares of Western Australia's Western Desert.

Waves of Wellness pairs group cognitive behavioural therapy with free surf lessons to help Australians rebuild their mental health in the ocean.

Kimberley Traditional Owners govern the Martuwarra Fitzroy River as a living ancestral being with an inalienable right to flow.

A former quarry and rubbish tip beside Melbourne's Merri Creek is now an 11-acre free public urban farm, nursery and environmental education hub.

Clontarf uses AFL and rugby league academies embedded in schools to keep young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men engaged in education and headed toward jobs.

The Yarra Yarra Biodiversity Corridor is replanting a 200-kilometre strip of native mallee bush across Western Australia's salt-degraded wheatbelt to lower salinity and rebuild eroded farmland.

Yolŋu Traditional Owners founded Dhimurru to manage Australia's first jointly declared land and sea Indigenous Protected Area across northeast Arnhem Land.

Australia's leading food rescue charity collects surplus food that would otherwise go to landfill and delivers it straight to people who need it.

Named 'grow and emerge' by Wurundjeri Elders, Richmond Football Club's Korin Gamadji Institute uses sport and culture to build the next generation of Indigenous leaders.

DJAARA led the first Aboriginal cultural burn on Dja Dja Wurrung Country in central Victoria in 170 years, reviving Djandak Wi ('Country Fire') to heal box-ironbark forests under the principle of 'right fire, right time.'

Volunteer divers grow coral fragments on offshore nurseries near Cairns and replant them onto Great Barrier Reef sections damaged by bleaching and cyclones.

Australia's largest private conservation landholder, safeguarding threatened species behind feral-free fences.

Born from surfers picking up rubbish after every session, Take 3 turned a simple habit -- take three pieces of trash off the beach -- into a global plastic-pollution movement reaching millions.

An Indigenous-led network is putting traditional 'cool burning' knowledge back into Aboriginal hands to heal Country and cut catastrophic bushfire risk across Australia.

Every year, twelve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander runners train for six months to complete the New York City Marathon, then return home as certified community health leaders.

Scientists and volunteers are replanting Sydney's lost underwater crayweed forests, reef by reef.

Australia's charity for bees funds native pollinator research, certifies bee-friendly farmland, and helps communities plant forage trees nationwide.

On a former sheep and cattle property south of Canberra, conservationists are rebuilding critically endangered natural temperate grassland paddock by paddock.

A peak body of everyday Queenslanders backs over 1,400 volunteer rural fire brigades with grants, gear and advocacy, forming the backbone of bushfire defense across the state.

On a tiny Torres Strait island, Indigenous artists weave thousands of abandoned fishing nets into internationally exhibited sculptures that fight ocean plastic and keep sea culture alive.

Australian rentals must have a working smoke alarm but not a bearable temperature, so a home can legally hit 40°C inside and the tenant has no recourse.

Founded by Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins, this player-led charity fits community cricket clubs with rooftop solar so the game can run on clean energy instead of rising power bills.

Since 1990, this Traditional Owner-run legal service has helped hand native title over four-fifths of the Cape York Peninsula back to its Aboriginal custodians.