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.
Nature law reforms are being introduced into parliament now – this is your chance to make them stronger.
The Government has made fixing nature laws a priority and wants to introduce legislation before the end of the year. We have a critical window to ensure that strong protections for nature are at the heart of the Government’s reform. Our fragile environment and declining wildlife can't afford to be left behind. Contact your MP now to make sure the laws being drafted include stronger upfront protections for wildlife, native forests and iconic environments like the Great Barrier Reef. We urgently need your help. Join us in calling for stronger nature laws to protect our precious wildlife and the places they call home.
Help bring Australian wildlife back from the brink of extinction!
No matter where you live in Australia, from the coast 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, and deforestation is a major cause.
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.
Our nature laws are meant to protect native wildlife and their habitats, but outdated loopholes like Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs) allow destructive logging to continue unchecked, even in areas critical to endangered species. This unchecked deforestation doesn’t just threaten iconic wildlife like greater gliders and glossy black cockatoos - it also pollutes our waterways and weakens marine ecosystems, including the iconic and globally-significant Great Barrier Reef. We’re calling on the Government to urgently reform Australia’s nature laws to:
- Provide stronger upfront protections for nature
- Close deforestation loopholes.
- Establish an independent environmental regulator.
- Safeguard nature against climate change.
Nature law reforms are being introduced into parliament now – this is your chance to make them stronger.
The Government has made fixing nature laws a priority and wants to introduce legislation before the end of the year. We have a critical window to ensure that strong protections for nature are at the heart of the Government’s reform. Our fragile environment and declining wildlife can't afford to be left behind. Contact your MP now to make sure the laws being drafted include stronger upfront protections for wildlife, native forests and iconic environments like the Great Barrier Reef. We urgently need your help. Join us in calling for stronger nature laws to protect our precious wildlife and the places they call home.
Help bring Australian wildlife back from the brink of extinction!
No matter where you live in Australia, from the coast 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, and deforestation is a major cause.
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.
Our nature laws are meant to protect native wildlife and their habitats, but outdated loopholes like Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs) allow destructive logging to continue unchecked, even in areas critical to endangered species. This unchecked deforestation doesn’t just threaten iconic wildlife like greater gliders and glossy black cockatoos - it also pollutes our waterways and weakens marine ecosystems, including the iconic and globally-significant Great Barrier Reef. We’re calling on the Government to urgently reform Australia’s nature laws to:
- Provide stronger upfront protections for nature
- Close deforestation loopholes.
- Establish an independent environmental regulator.
- Safeguard nature against climate change.
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.
Q&A: Reforming Australia's Nature Laws - Explained
Australia’s nature laws are meant to protect our wildlife and wild places, but they’re falling short. From deforestation loopholes to unchecked habitat destruction, our current laws are failing iconic species like the greater glider and swift parrot, and even putting the Great Barrier Reef at risk.
This blog breaks down 10 key questions to help you understand what’s going wrong, why it matters, and what needs to change to protect nature and secure a better future.
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.
Yet loopholes in Australia’s nature laws allow native forest logging to continue, pushing iconic wildlife closer to extinction as their homes are lost to deforestation.
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 end deforestation loopholes 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, deforestation loopholes allow habitat destruction to continue, and the list of threatened native animals and plants continues to increase. Even international icons like the Great Barrier Reef are put at risk due to harmful runoff from native forest logging, polluting once-pristine waters.
Threats such as habitat destruction, deforestation, global heating, inappropriate fire management and introduced predators are putting pressure on our wildlife. Along with inadequate funding and outdated agreements like deforestation loopholes, our weak nature laws don’t extend far enough to address these issues.
We need stronger nature laws and proper funding to protect wildlife and the ecosystems they depend on.
We must protect nature to protect our future.
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.
