2017 joint award winner
GECO was awarded for the critical citizen science and on-ground surveying work of its volunteers to protect old growth trees and rainforest plants in East Gippsland forests.
Since January of this year, GECO's program has protected over 300 hectares of high conservation value Greater Glider habitat that would otherwise have been logged. In one case, they documented 22 individual Greater Gliders in just one area of forest where VicForests failed to detect any.
The program has been so successful it was nominated as a finalist in the 2015 United Nations World Environment Day Awards.
Right: Marnie Rawlinson, GECO campaigner Ed Hill, ACF CEO Kelly O'Shanassy. Photo: Stephanie Bradford