To promote composting in the community, YCAN is offering free plaques to be displayed outside your home.

We aim to strengthen Council’s commitments to environmentally sustainable plans for buildings, precincts, transport and so on. We’ve learned a lot about the process of local government. At this level of government we can make ourselves heard.

In 2007, mining company Marathon Resources announced plans to mine uranium in Arkaroola. With the support of a broad cross section of the community and people from all political persuasions, the Wilderness Society campaigned to protect this amazing place since the moment bulldozers and drilling rigs arrived.

We fought a hard fight against Gunns in stopping their proposed pulp mill – and won. Gunns is an example of what we can do together for our wilderness as we stand up against unsustainable businesses.

After years of campaigning, the community of Broome, local Indigenous groups, and people from all over Australia and the world breathed a collective sigh of relief when Woodside Petroleum pulled the pin on their destructive gas hub project planned for James Price Point in the Kimberley.