PROTECT AUSSIE WILDLIFE
Our Australian wildlife urgently need you. By adding your voice, you’ll be sending a message to your local member of parliament, calling on them to strengthen weak nature laws and provide adequate funding to save threatened species.
2 December 2024 Update: The fight for nature isn’t over.
The government has failed to pass laws to establish Australia’s first national environmental regulator, with business and mining lobby groups derailing crucial reforms. This further highlights the urgent need for an independent regulator.
While disappointing, your efforts brought us incredibly close to a deal. Every voice counts - sign and share the campaign, contact your MP or donate to support our advocacy work and protect Australia’s wildlife.
Help bring Australian wildlife back from the brink of extinction!
No matter where you live in Australia, from the bustling cities to the coast, from suburban sprawls to the outback, from the mountains to the plains – there are unique and unusual animals everywhere.
Sadly, over 2,000 of our Aussie animals and plants are at risk of extinction.
Australia has the worst mammal extinction rate in the world, highlighting our poor track record in protecting our wildlife and wild places. In the last decade, three of our native species were lost to extinction and many more have been added to the threatened species list, including the parma wallaby.
In 2022, the east coast koala and greater gliders were uplisted to Endangered. Without urgent action, many more of our iconic wildlife including eastern quolls, and glossy black cockatoos are at risk of disappearing forever.
2 December 2024 Update: The fight for nature isn’t over.
The government has failed to pass laws to establish Australia’s first national environmental regulator, with business and mining lobby groups derailing crucial reforms. This further highlights the urgent need for an independent regulator.
While disappointing, your efforts brought us incredibly close to a deal. Every voice counts - sign and share the campaign, contact your MP or donate to support our advocacy work and protect Australia’s wildlife.
Help bring Australian wildlife back from the brink of extinction!
No matter where you live in Australia, from the bustling cities to the coast, from suburban sprawls to the outback, from the mountains to the plains – there are unique and unusual animals everywhere.
Sadly, over 2,000 of our Aussie animals and plants are at risk of extinction.
Australia has the worst mammal extinction rate in the world, highlighting our poor track record in protecting our wildlife and wild places. In the last decade, three of our native species were lost to extinction and many more have been added to the threatened species list, including the parma wallaby.
In 2022, the east coast koala and greater gliders were uplisted to Endangered. Without urgent action, many more of our iconic wildlife including eastern quolls, and glossy black cockatoos are at risk of disappearing forever.
We urgently need your help. Join us in calling for stronger nature laws and adequate funding to protect our precious wildlife and the places they call home.
Australia's unique wildlife
Australia is home to incredibly diverse wildlife found nowhere else on the planet. Over 30 million years of geographical isolation have created fascinating animals unique to our vast continent.
Our latest Threatened Species Report Card reveals Australia is still failing to protect its species
The results are in for WWF-Australia's latest Threatened Species Report Card. Australia continues to receive an F grade for funding, recovery planning and on improving the threat status of precious species.
Since 2022, 163 species have been newly listed as threatened.
There are now over 2,000 species of plant, animal and ecological communities officially listed as threatened. This includes more than 590 native animals.
There has never been a more critical time to reverse the trajectory of species extinction.
How funding can help reverse species extinction
East coast koalas, greater gliders, hairy-nosed wombats and so many more animals are currently under threat of extinction. Countless rare birds, like the regent honeyeater and swift parrot are on the brink of extinction.
The protection of these precious species is woefully underfunded. The Australian Government needs to commit more funding to on-ground conservation activities to support species recovery and halt species extinction.
Your voice matters. Send a message to your local member of parliament, urging them to protect Australian wildlife and the places they call home.
We urgently need stronger nature laws
Australia’s nature laws are better known as the Environment Protection and Biodiversity and Conservation (EPBC) Act 1999. Its purpose is to protect and conserve our environment and nature, including threatened wildlife.
However, the list of threatened native animals and plants continues to increase. In 2022, the parma wallaby was added to the threatened species list.
Threats such as habitat destruction, global heating, inappropriate fire management and introduced predators are putting pressure on our wildlife. Along with inadequate funding, our weak nature laws don’t extend far enough to address these issues.
Woeful funding and weak environmental laws are failing to protect our wildlife and the places we love.
Discover what threatened wildlife could call your backyard home
Discover if threatened animals need protection in your local area by using WWF's My Backyard tool, and find out what you can do to help protect them.
