Australian Conservation Foundation

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Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF)

Founded	1966 Melbourne, Australia
Type	Non-governmental organization
Focus	Advocacy, policy, research and community organising
Location	Melbourne
Area served	Australia
Key people	Kelly O'Shanassy, Chief Executive Officer Mara Bún, President
Website	acf.org.au

The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) is Australia's national environmental organisation, launched in 1965 in response to a proposal by the World Wide Fund for Nature for a more co-ordinated approach to sustainability.

One high-profile campaign was "Save the Whales", which ended commercial whaling in Australia, following widespread protest against the huge slaughter. Another was to protect the vulnerable Great Barrier Reef by classifying it as a marine park, from which mining, drilling and trawling were banned. By 2000, ACF initiatives extended across a wide range of agendas, such as climate change, clean energy, rainforest preservation, greenhouse pollution and land tenure reform in the Indigenous communities.

ACF is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit organisation focused on advocacy, policy, research and community organising, with a membership of 700,000. Its president, as of 2022^[update], is Mara Bún.