ACT Herpetological Association
Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with reptiles and amphibians.  Established in 1985, the ACT Herpetological Association aims to promote the study and conservation of reptiles and amphibians, and to foster a positive community attitude toward this much maligned group of animals. Our members encompass a broad cross-section of the community.

ANU Food Co-operative
We are a not-for-profit food co-op that knows good food. We carry local, fresh, organic, sustainable, natural, Fair Trade, ethical, bulk and affordable products.

ANU Students' Association - Enviroment Collective
The Environment Collective is a quasi-autonomous group within the ANU Students' Association (ANUSA). It is not simply a group for students of environmental disciplines, although the involvement of these students is highly valued. The Collective is the main group at ANU for all students interested in engaging with environmental issues. It aims to promote environmental awareness on campus and to facilitate engagement with environmental issues and campaigns.

ACT Chapter of the Australian Association for Environmental Education 
AAEE is Australia’s peak professional body for Environmental Educators.

AAEE advocates for Environmental Education and promotes best practice. It contributes to skills development among educators across the country and internationally.

The Australian Native Plants Society, Canberra Region Inc.
The Australian Native Plants Society, Canberra Region Inc. (ANPS) was established in 1962 as the Society for Growing Australian Plants, Canberra Region Inc. and changed its name in 1999. The Society is a non-profit, voluntary organisation dedicated to the growing, conservation, preservation, promotion and appreciation of Australian native plants.

Bush Heritage Australia
Bush Heritage is a national non-profit organisation that protects Australia’s unique animals, plants and their habitats. We do this by acquiring and managing land of outstanding conservation value, or by working in partnership with other landowners. Our vision for 2025 is to protect 1 per cent of Australia.

Canberra Bushwalking Club
The Canberra Bushwalking Club organises a range of walks in the Canberra and south east NSW region and sometimes further afield. We are currently celebrating our 50th anniversary.
Everyone is welcome at club meetings which are held at 8pm on the third Wednesday of the month (except December and January) at Hughes Baptist Church, 32–34 Groom Street, Hughes. At the meeting a guest may give a presentation or a member may give a presentation about a walk or equipment.

Canberra Archeological Society
The Canberra Archaeological Society was formed in 1963 to cater for the needs of all people interested in archaeology. Monthly meetings are held at the Australian National University, with guest speakers talking on a range of topics from Australian prehistory to historical archaeology and classical studies.

Members have the opportunity to join in field work involving both site recording and excavation. No experience is necessary as training on the job is provided; enthusiasm is the only requirement and the aim is to enjoy the time in the field.

Canberra Indian Myna Action Group
The Canberra Indian Myna Action Group Inc (CIMAG) is a community group formed in April 2006 to reduce the impact of this exotic invader on our native birds and animals.

Indian Myna numbers have exploded across Canberra since they were deliberately introduced, and are a serious environmental threat to native wildlife.

CIMAG has the aim of protecting our native birds and mammals from the threat posed by the Indian Myna (or Common Myna) (Acridotheres Tristis) in the Canberra region.

Canberra Ornithologists Group (COG)
The purpose of COG is to encourage interest in, and develop knowledge of, the birds of the Canberra region; to promote and co-ordinate the study of birds and to promote the conservation of native birds and their habitat.

Canberra Pedestrian Forum
The Canberra Pedestrian Forum promotes the interests of pedestrians who travel on Canberra's footpaths and roads.

 Canberra Reptile Sanctuary Inc
Every Zoo, Park, or Sanctuary curator faces the same problem, "What animals should we exhibit?"

The Canberra Reptile Sanctuary has the same issue, however, we have thought long and hard to answer the question and maximise the experience for every visitor.

Instead of being a 'Post Stamp' collection of reptiles and amphibians, every exhibit and every animal on display has its own Research, Conservation, or Education story to tell. The stories aren't just about Australian Reptiles and Amphibians, Exotic species and invasive species also form a part of the Sanctuary exhibits.

The Coastwatchers Association Inc
Conservation Group that strives to protect the environment of the Eurobodalla region on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia

Climate Action Canberra
We are a group of people in the Canberra region who are concerned about climate change and are interested in helping to catalyse an emergency response to the climate crisis.

We aim to act as a hub for information and an entry point for people to facilitate their productive engagement in climate change issues. We want to do what we can to help other activists and groups that are involved with this issue.

Environment Defender's Office (ACT)
The Environmental Defender’s Office is a non-profit community legal centre based in Canberra. We advise on environmental and planning law and aim to increase public awareness of environmental laws and remedies. We advise on questions of Commonwealth and Australian Capital Territory law. We offer a free telephone advice service on environmental-law questions. Appointments with our solicitor are also available.

Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand
Our Vision is for sustainable and equitable management of the environment through excellence in environmental practice. Our Mission is to lead environmental practitioners, set standards for best available environmental practices, support and enable practitioners to promote and achieve a sustainable and equitable managment of the environment.

Field Naturalists Association of Canberra
The Field Naturalists' Association of Canberra Inc.(FNAC) was formed in 1981. Its aim is to foster interest in natural history by means of meetings and regular field outings. Meetings are usually held on the first Thursday of each month, except January. Field outings range from day trips to weekends away. Activities are advertised in our monthly newsletter. Informality and the enjoyment of nature are emphasised.

Friends of the Aranda Bushland
The Aranda Bushland is a 100 ha reserve of eucalypt forest and woodland comprising the southern slopes of Aranda Hill (the north side being the suburb Aranda). It adjoins Black Mountain Reserve (adjacent to the central business district of Canberra), and forms part of Canberra Nature Park, an network of urban open space reserves throughout the national capital. The Friends of Aranda Bushland (FOAB) is a Park Care group interested in preserving and promoting the natural environment of Canberra Nature Park in Aranda bushland and surrounding bushland areas. Membership of the FOAB is open to all people interested in conservation of their local bushland.

The Friends of Aranda Bushland have been active in weeding our patch and campaigning for preservation of bushland for 10 years.

Friends of Grasslands
Friends of Grasslands is a non profit association run by volunteers, established in 1994, incorporated in the Australian Capital Territory. FoG is managed by a Committee.

FoG is bound by a statement of values, principles, functions and objectives, under which it is governed by a Committee and Annual and ad hoc General Meetings. It has a strategic plan.
Membership is open to all, both individuals and organisations.  Members include people interested in conservation, landowners and managers, members of landcare and parkcare groups, professional scientists and ecologists, private and government agencies. Members come from many parts of Australia.

Friends of Tidbinbilla
The Southern ACT Catchment Group (SACTCG) was formed in May 2002 to represent all active environmental groups in the southern areas of the ACT. The SACTCG is one of three community based catchment groups in the ACT and covers the areas of Woden, Weston Creek, Tuggeranong and Tharwa.

Supported by a Catchment Coordinator and a Waterwatch Coordinator the SACTCG provides a network for our member groups, helping in their development and operation, providing assistance with project ideas, funding opportunities and providing a community forum for ideas and discussion. Our member groups originated from the ranks of Parkcare, Urban and Rural Landcare, Waterwatch and other community groups interested in the environment.

As a group, we are also involved in 'sub-catchment planning' that will enable us to address priority issues in a strategic fashion well into the future. Some examples of issues being addressed by the SACTCG include community building, biodiversity, riparian plantings, weed management, soil health, water quality, European and Indigenous cultural heritage, vegetation loss and urban land degradation.

Ginninderra Catchment Group
The Ginninderra Catchment Group is an incorporated umbrella group of community volunteers working in the water catchment of the Ginninderra Creek.

The primary focus of the Group is advancing the health of the Ginninderra Catchment through effective engagement with government, agencies, business, schools and the catchment community. We have a strong commitment to community education and capacity building and seek to create diverse opportunities for people to become involved in catchment management, decision-making and on-ground action.

Goulburn Field Naturalists Society
The Goulburn Field Naturalists Society (GFNS) is active in the Southern Tablelands region of NSW.

GFNS is primarily concerned about the conservation of the area's native flora and fauna, as well as local planning issues which impact on the region's biodiversity and natural resources.

Kosciusko Huts Association
The Kosciuszko Huts Association (KHA) is an organisation of concerned people who care about the preservation, maintenance and history of the huts in the Kosciuszko (NSW) and Namadgi (ACT) National Parks.

Volunteers are welcomed for workparties on many of the huts.

Molonglo Catchment Group
The Molonglo Catchment Group is one of three community-based catchment groups in the ACT.  All catchment group areas cross over the NSW border, however the Molonglo Catchment is largely in NSW.  The catchment groups act as umbrella groups for the many Landcare and other natural resource management (NRM) interest groups in their geographical area. The group's basic objectives are available here ( 23 KB)

National Parks Association ACT
The NPA ACT plays an active role in conservation issues in the ACT. It is regularly consulted by the ACT Government on management and development plans for the Territory's National Park, Nature Reserves, remaining bushland and rural leases. It commissions research and prepares independent reports and recommendations. It runs seminars on research topics affecting the environment. Members participate as volunteers for work parties in Namadgi National Park and Canberra Nature Reserves. The NPA has a delegate to the Australian National Parks Council and is represented on the Conservation Council of the South-east Region and Canberra.

Nature and Society Forum
The Nature and Society Forum is a catalyst for social change to bring about biosensitive societies which satisfy the needs of humankind and the Earth's ecosystems of which we are a part.

NSF stands for biosensitive societies that manifest an understanding of and respect for the processes of life upon which we are entirely dependent.

Pedal Power
Pedal Power's mission is for more Canberrans cycling, more often, for a better community.

Our Aims are to get more people cycling; to increase public awareness of the advantages of cycling; to encourage the provision of bicycle facilities; and to disseminate information on bicycle safety, skills, maintenance and repair

Pedal Power ACT Inc is supported by the ACT Government under the ACT Health Promotion Grants Program

Red Hill Regenerators
The Red Hill Regenerators is a Landcare award winning community group which spends hundreds of hours each year enhancing the Red Hill natural environment.Most of the regeneration work on Red Hill involves removing invasive plants which form dense, shrubby clusters and destroy the open woodland character of the Park. These weeds include blackberry and common garden plants such as Firethorn (Pyracantha), Cotoneaster, verbascum (Verbascum thapsus) and Privet, and also natives not local to Canberra, such as Cootamundra Wattle. They occupied about 30% of the understory when regeneration began in 1988. Once they are removed the original trees, grasses and wildflowers rapidly regenerate.

Erosion happens when removal or trampling of vegetation enables rainwater runoff to remove soil and carve gullies. Fortunately, erosion is not a serious problem on Red Hill. The Red Hill Regenerators Parkcare Group has carried out trackwork on steep tracks where erosion has occurred.

The Red Hill Regenerators has held regular working bees on the hill since 1989. Activities are held on the first Sunday of the Month from 09.00 - 12.30 (except January).

SEE-Change Inc
SEE-Change is a community, not-for-profit group that supports and inspires people to join together and act in a sustainable way. Its activities are practical, and based on local Canberra realities. In addition, its aim is to create workable project models to be picked up by other community groups Australia-wide

 SERCA

Society for Sustainability & Environmental Engineering (ACT and Region Chapter)
The Environmental Engineering Society was established in 1994, from its predecessor the National Committee on Environmental Engineering. The Society was inaugurated by the first meeting of the National Board on 28 November 1996.  In 2005 the Society was renamed SSEE, The Society for Sustainabilty and Environmental Engineering in order to recognise the importance of sustainability in the engineering profession.

The Society relies substantially on the active support and involvement of our members in order to achieve our goals and objectives and to be able to provide technical and professional development support for our members.

The Society is an inclusive industry association keen to welcome members including those professionals from other fields of engineering and the natural and social sciences working towards environmental sustainability. Our Member Benefits brochure can be downloaded here. The Society is affiliated with the Environmental College and gains its corporate entity as a constitutional part of Engineers Australia through the Board of Engineering Practice.

Sustainable Population Australia
Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) was established in Canberra in 1988 by environmentally concerned people who felt that the impact of population growth on Australia’s environment was not receiving sufficient attention from other groups.

Its founding Patron was the poet Judith Wright, a formidable environmental advocate whose tireless work over 15 years resulted in the establishment of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. From its original membership of 10, SPA has grown to 1300 members (August 2010), with branches in all capital cities except Darwin. A SPA brochure is available here.

SPA has held public meetings and conferences in many parts of Australia. In Canberra, SPA has a membership of 200 and holds regular public meetings. SPA makes submissions to all levels of government, lobbies politicians, participates in community events, issues media releases and appears regularly in the Australian media.

Members receive six newsletters a year packed with information and expert opinion, and there is a lively website (www.population.org.au). For further information, read this article on SPA, published in the Canberra Times in October 1998, to mark the organisation's 10th anniversary. A membership application form is available here.

Southern ACT Catchment Groups
The Southern ACT Catchment Group (SACTCG) was formed in May 2002 to represent all active environmental groups in the southern areas of the ACT. The SACTCG is one of three community based catchment groups in the ACT and covers the areas of Woden, Weston Creek, Tuggeranong and Tharwa.

Supported by a Catchment Coordinator and a Waterwatch Coordinator the SACTCG provides a network for our member groups, helping in their development and operation, providing assistance with project ideas, funding opportunities and providing a community forum for ideas and discussion. Our member groups originated from the ranks of Parkcare, Urban and Rural Landcare, Waterwatch and other community groups interested in the environment.

As a group, we are also involved in 'sub-catchment planning' that will enable us to address priority issues in a strategic fashion well into the future. Some examples of issues being addressed by the SACTCG include community building, biodiversity, riparian plantings, weed management, soil health, water quality, European and Indigenous cultural heritage, vegetation loss and urban land degradation.

Southern Tablelands Ecosystems Park
The Southern Tablelands Ecosystems Park (STEP) was founded in late 2002 by two organisations: the Australian Native Plants Society Canberra Region (to develop a regional botanic garden illustrating the ecosystems of the Southern Tablelands and emphasising ground storey plants) and Friends of Grasslands (to further public education about regional ecoystems and develop practical skills and methods to restore natural landscapes).

STEP is a non-profit organisation and is open to membership to any organisation, families and individuals which share its vision.

Wilderness Society ACT Branch
The Wilderness Society is a community-based environmental protection organisation. We work to safeguard our sources of clean water and air, to tackle devastating climate change, to create a safe future for life on Earth, and to give a better world to our children. The majority of our work is in Australia, with a strong focus on natural environments and the role they play in keeping our world safe.

We were born in 1976, and our first major victory was Australia's most famous environmental campaign - saving the Franklin River. Since then, with the support of thousands of concerned people across the country, we've worked to protect millions of hectares of our greatest wild places.