How it works

ACF Investigates gives everyone the chance to uncover habitat destruction. Our goal is to identify every habitat destruction event in 1 million hectares across the country. By identifying potential clearing, you’ll be helping us find new leads and focus our investigative efforts.


You’ll need a mobile phone or computer. You’ll be asked to register so that we can make sure we don’t show you the same image twice. Signing up only takes a few minutes and you can do it anytime, anywhere.


We’ve chosen the 1 million hectares of land where evidence suggests that habitat clearing is both more damaging and more likely to happen. This area spans the whole continent, and many different types of native rainforest, bush, scrub and grassland.


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ACF will collect this information and use it to focus our efforts on the cases you’ve identified, chasing those leads to see what we can investigate further. You will help us find clearing that’s happening without approval, outside the bounds of what has been approved, or in areas that are protected habitat.

Your work will help us understand what’s really happening on the ground, and we won’t have to wait for other reports to get that information. If we’re lucky, we can stop the destruction of critical habitat in its tracks.


Together we can get nature out of trouble. We can create a thriving movement for nature, and protect and restore the forests, rivers, oceans and wildlife we depend on – and push government and business to do the same.