Pledge Your Support
Our blueprint includes private funding and financial instruments such as biodiversity credits to generate income for land under our management and as part of packages in acquisition trade arrangements. We are lobbying government to support our initiative with funding through disaster mitigation, environmental and cultural preservation allocations and have had several productive meetings federally with the relevant departments.
Pledges to CLAI can be made in the form of bank transfer, biodiversity or carbon credits. For foundations and organisations, options also exist for in-kind pledges or partnership status.
Endorsements:
Bob Brown:
I wholeheartedly endorse the Community Land Acquisition Initiative Limited campaign to purchase the contentious but environmentally superb Wallum property. Having visited Wallum and seen its magnificent, ancient ecosystem and listened to the Bundjalung elders talking about their country and the need to protect it, I am happy to talk with any potential investor about saving the property through its purchase. THIS IS NATIONAL HERITAGE; it is no place for bulldozers.
Biodiversity Legacy:
Biodiversity Legacy endorses Community Land Acquisition Initiative Wallum's (CLAI) campaign to purchase the Wallum property. We connected with them in the initial stages of their establishment to share learnings, and they developed these to establish their own entity that is place-based, community led and is guided by First Nation sciences and values. We fully believe communities can come together to save important habitats such as the Wallum site for future generations to come.
CLAI is taking promissory Pledges, which will be realised when the final acquisition negotiations are being conducted.
Pledge Text
Help us buy-back our precious heathland to preserve it for future generations.
We are seeking donors to help us buy threatened areas of high cultural and ecological value in our region.
Australia's natural heritage is being swallowed up, piece by piece. Government after government stands by while Indigenous cultural sites are destroyed, irreplaceable habitats are bulldozed, wildlife is driven to extinction, rivers sucked dry and native forests felled.
We don't believe it has to be this way. Our dream is to save our precious wild lands and Indigenous culture and we're asking for your help.
Our first target is to buy the precious coastal heathland, Wallum, in Brunswick Heads, one of the last remaining habitats of its kind, and home to 24 endangered species.
Despite impassioned protest by our local community, Wallum is slated for a housing development. Unless we act now, this sensitive habitat will be permanently entombed in concrete and will be lost forever.
We have a strategy to save Wallum for future generations, to keep it as a community asset, and we are asking for your help to buy it. Its successful purchase would help protect many endangered species, including Byron Shire's last remaining group of Glossy Black Cockatoos.
Help us realise our bold vision. Together as Earth's custodians we will stand up for Wallum's precious wildlife and preserve it for all of us and for the sake of life on earth.
Community Land Acquisition Initiative (CLAI) harnesses the power of biodiversity and carbon credit instruments, alongside generous community pledges, to acquire and protect environmentally sensitive areas.
Your contributions, whether money, or in the form of biodiversity and carbon credits, serve as the cornerstone of our mission.
To make a Pledge, please fill in the form below and email to info(at)clai.au
After submitting your Pledge you will receive an acknowledgment and updates, and we will advise you when the funds will be needed.