As the state’s leading environmental advocacy organisation, it is our mission to protect nature in NSW and create the conditions it needs to thrive. For more than 60 years, we have been at the centre of the state’s most important conservation battles and have notched up countless wins for wildlife, bushland, marine life, and local communities.

MDEG began meeting in 1989 to highlight global issues like climate change, deforestation and recycling under the theme ‘think globally, act locally’.

Mid Western Community Action Network (MWCAN) is a politically non-aligned group representing a broad cross-section of the Mid Western and Upper Hunter communities. It was established to promote effective, long-term planning and sustainable development of the region.

Local residents have formed Merriwa Healthy Environment Group in response to growing concern about the effects that coal mining and coal seam gas extraction are having, and will have in the future, on the health of us all.

Markets for Change go direct to companies and consumers with a call for change instead of relying primarily on politicians to adopt and act on policies to combat climate change and forest destruction.