Arid Lands Environment Centre Inc (ALEC)

ALEC is a community-based environmental organisation located in Alice Springs, in the heart of the Australia’s arid zone.

Since 1980, the organisation (formerly known as the Central Australian Conservation Council) has been the main conservation voice for the arid zone. It has campaigned on a wide range of local, regional and national environmental issues including: urban water & energy conservation, ecologically sustainable pastoral land management, weed and feral animal management, nuclear issues, threatened species conservation and waste minimisation.

• Convenor: Siobhan McDonald