Volunteers are a crucial part of Australia’s Environmental and Climate Change action and response. Every year hundreds of thousands of volunteers work directly in the environmental and climate change space from conservation, rehabilitation, and adaption to tree planting, threatened species protection, land management, clean-up, wildlife rescue, recycling, education and citizen science to name a few.
Volunteers are also the backbone of Australia’s disaster response networks, particularly in climate generated disasters due to extreme weather events such as fires, floods, droughts and heat waves. They play a vital role in community resilience and recovery from these increasingly common events.
Volunteering Australia is raising the profile of environmental and climate change volunteers and advocating for their representation and consideration in key policies that affect them and their communities, with the aim of strengthening environmental causes and participation.
