Australian Conservation Foundation is looking back in time to raise funds and awareness for the future.
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The national environment organisation will present an old classic in a fundraising movie night on November 27.
An independent, non-partisan organisation ACF advocates clean air and water and for a world forests, rivers, people and wildlife can thrive. Its work is entirely funded by donations.
ACF was formed 53 years ago by a handful of people when oil drilling and mining first threatened the Great Barrier Reef. Today it has a membership of half a million Australians who work as a community to protect the places they love - like the Kimberley, the Daintree, Antarctica, the Franklin River and Fraser Island.
It won World Heritage listing for Kakadu and the Great Barrier Reef. Working with farmers, it pioneered the national Landcare movement and it continues to campaign to make the Murray-Darling Basin Plan more workable for the environment, the fishermen, landholders and the rural communities that depend on the river.
In 2010 and 2012, ACF played a powerful role in the creation of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), a government body dedicated to investing in clean energy projects.
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The Highlands community will have the chance to show support for the organisation and take a journey back in time when Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kids screens at the Empire Cinemas.
The movie night will open at 6pm for a 6.30pm start.
Tickets are $25 which includes light refreshments.
Tickets are available at the cinema box office or louise.egerton0@gmail.com
