A brief history… The Australian Wildlife Protection Council (AWPC) is today a non-profit wildlife education organisation and registered charity founded in 1969 by Arthur Queripel. Arthur remembers seeing “smouldering piles of mallee scrub and mounds of dead kangaroos and emus following the round-ups after clearing”. He witnessed mutilated kangaroos on trucks as the commercial skin and meat trade got underway … Continue reading About us: our history