PRIORITY AREAS

WWF Australia has three major programmes - Nature Conservation,Ecologically Sustainable Development, and InternationalCooperation to Conserve Biological Diversity.

Nature Conservation: Some of the main issues include sustainable land and water use, native vegetation clearing, marine resource use, wildlife conservation, wetlands management, and human impact on arid lands.

In 1996 projects are being carried out on;

  • Conservation of the outback and arid lands
  • Wetlands management
  • Conservation of woodlands and forests
  • Protection of native grasslands
  • Conservation of remnant vegetation on agricultural lands
  • Protection of the marine ecosystem

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