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Friends of the Earth is a proud member of Places You Love.

PYL has just completed a landmark survey of Australia’s environment – our rivers, energy, climate, food, forests, waste and pollution, land management, oceans and reefs.

The End Coal site has been launched by a global alliance of environmental, social justice and health advocates who are concerned about coal’s heavy toll on human health, our natural environment and the planet’s climate.

Friends of the Earth can announce today that the Victorian Government has withdrawn from a controversial logging trial planned for the Barmah National Park, part of the world’s largest red gum forest.

The joint Victoria-NSW logging trial would have seen commercial logging machinery felling trees across 400 hectares of national park on both sides of the Murray River.

We need thousands of Australians to join us on the 18th of October as we collectively tell Australia's big banks: you choose fossil fuels and your customers will choose another bank!

This is really is urgent. We've just had Australia's biggest ever coal mine approved and over the coming months, owners of new coal mines and ports will be looking to the banks for funding.

We need to get there first and tell Australia's big banks that if they fund these dirty fossil fuel projects, it will cost their reputation and customer base, as well as the environment.