Shell Coastal Volunteers

Conservation Volunteers and Shell came together in 2001 to form a community business partnership to deliver Shell Coastal Volunteers. 

Shell Coastal Volunteers focuses on the rehabilitation of Australia’s coastal environment, including three of Australia’s world heritage listed areas – Fraser Island, the Great Barrier Reef and the Tasmanian coastline.

Shell Coastal Volunteers provides community groups, government agencies, local governments and other land managers with support in the form of teams of managed volunteers.

Shell Coastal Volunteers undertakes a wide range of practical conservation projects addressing coastal rehabilitation and protection including planting trees and seeds, removing weeds, collecting litter, reconstructing fences as well as undertaking animal and plant monitoring. 

Shell Coastal Volunteers has achieved very good results, including:

• 3,000 days of practical conservation projects completed

• More than 20,000 volunteer days contributed

• 200 kilometres of walking track constructed

• More than 2,000,000 sq metres of area revegetated

• 330 kg of seed collected

• 100,000 trees, shrubs and grasses planted

Over 200 Shell employees have joined with hundreds of other volunteers from Australia and around the world to help achieve these results.

Over the past six years more than 150 coastal communities across Australia have benefited from the assistance of Shell Coastal Volunteers. This includes local councils, coastcare groups and Indigenous communities.

In 2007 the assistance offered by Shell Coastal Volunteers has expanded beyond practical conservation projects to include training 50 coastal community groups in risk assessment and safe volunteer management.

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