An estimated 50 million trees are bulldozed in Australia each year, leading to the deaths of over 70 million native animals as a result of deforestation across Australia. A healthy ecology of our native forests is an important resource for future generations. It assists in the supply of clean water and food production, as well […]

Waste Not: TEC is Australia’s leading campaigner for recycling to save resources and stop waste. We are at the forefront of the national push for a 10cent refundable deposit on drink bottles and cans (CDS) – to prevent 8 billion containers being littered or landfilled every year (15,000 a minute!). Our internationally successful award winning […]

Save Sydney’s Koalas. We must protect them! Sydney’s last remaining healthy koala colony is facing end of days if something is not done to urgently protect it. So TEC is taking action! Anxiously watched over by local wildlife activists for decades in Sydney’s South West, the colony’s matriarchs and their cubs have so far managed […]

From the western edge of Sydney, spreading outwards north, south and west – there are little-known, but irreplaceable Koala colonies. Now officially classified as “endangered” under state and federal legislation, they are facing extinction in a few decades – unless we act! Koalas have declined in the Sydney Basin Bioregion by an estimated 22% in […]

Last Chance to Save Sydney’s Koalas. Send a message to NSW’s Minister for Environment, Penny Sharpe and Minister for Planning, Paul Scully and urge them to take action – message template at the bottom of this page. The Cumberland Plain Conservation Plan (CPCP 2021 – 2056) frames the western edge of Sydney. It could curb […]