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Scientists want every major bay and estuary along the Great Barrier Reef tested for contaminants to identify ‘hotspots’, after alarming levels of chemicals...
19 December 2018
A new report has found that the New South Wales government’s Koala Strategy is “ineffective, inadequate and expensive” and ignores the main cause of koala...
18 December 2018
WWF-Australia says the New South Wales government is massively understating the area of forest and woodlands that should be protected from tree-clearing.
11 December 2018
Northern bettongs have been reduced to just two populations in the wild, numbering at most 2,500, and researchers say drastic measures may be needed to save...
6 December 2018
Recent back-to-back bleaching killed 50% of Great Barrier Reef inshore coral and scientists predict it could bleach again this summer so how is it possible...
30 November 2018
With more and more Australian shoppers choosing to buy seafood, Woolworths and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Australia have partnered to further improve...
27 November 2018
WWF-Australia CEO Dermot O’Gorman said changes to the Electoral Funding and Disclosure Reform Bill which passed the Senate “are a win for democracy”.
16 November 2018
Seventeen of the state’s 20 deforestation hotspots contain koala habitat at risk of land clearing under new state environmental laws.
14 November 2018
For the first time in Asia-Pacific, WWF and its partners will enable technology to extract DNA from tortoiseshell products, and help put a stop to the illegal...
13 November 2018
Eastern quolls born in the wild at Booderee National Park have been photographed roaming independently from their mothers for the first time.
12 November 2018
A new WWF-Australia report has found tree-clearing killed more than 87 million animals in New South Wales between 1998 and 2015 – and this figure is likely...
8 November 2018
The international commission which decides on conservation plans for the oceans surrounding Antarctica has once again failed to deliver increased protection.
5 November 2018
WWF-Australia has held a one-day pop-up museum for Sydneysiders and tourists to experience what a world without koalas in the wild could be like.
30 October 2018
Global wildlife populations have fallen by 60% since 1970, but koalas are now declining at an even faster rate.
30 October 2018
These are the dramatic before and after pictures that drive home the sediment and farm chemical problem plaguing the Great Barrier Reef.
26 October 2018
Satellite tracking is unlocking the mystery of exactly where humpback whales feed on krill, highlighting the need for increased protection of the Western...
19 October 2018
Large Australian organisations looking to switch to renewable energy will now be able to turn to Australia’s first Business Renewables Centre .
17 October 2018
As Prince Harry prepares to meet koalas at Taronga Zoo today, WWF-Australia hopes his visit draws world attention to the alarming decline of the much-loved...
16 October 2018
A young koala from Sydney’s south west has been saved from a painful death following complicated surgery, but the species’ future in New South Wales appears...
28 September 2018
Satellite imagery shows a massive spike in the destruction of NSW koala forests. 14 hectares of koala habitat is bulldozed each day.
7 September 2018
Japanese whalers have killed more than 50 minke whales this year in the Ross Sea Marine Protected Area in Antarctica.
4 September 2018
Queensland’s leading environment groups have warned that Queensland’s status as the most wildlife-rich state in Australia is now seriously at risk, and...
17 August 2018
WWF-Australia congratulates Pacific Reef Fisheries in northern Queensland for being the first Australian prawn farm to gain certification by the Aquaculture...
17 August 2018
WWF-Australia says it is disappointing that the largest removal of marine protections in human history has been confirmed, with the Coral Sea’s protected area...
16 August 2018
On the eve of a crucial Senate vote, an analysis by WWF-Australia shows that sea turtles are among the big losers as the federal government attempts the...
16 August 2018
Analysis suggests massive underreporting of net deaths of protected species.
13 August 2018
The man responsible for up to 80% of the gill-net take north of Cooktown recently handed his net to WWF-Australia who will ensure it never enters the water...
6 August 2018
WWF-Australia has been named as one of Australian Financial Review’s Most Innovative Companies.
31 July 2018
Quokkas in Western Australia’s Northcliffe forests are bouncing back strongly from a massive 2015 bushfire.
20 July 2018
WWF-Australia welcomed the increased focus on climate change – including the devastating consecutive coral bleaching events in 2016 and 2017 – in the revised...
20 July 2018
WWF today welcomed the announcement of a voluntary krill fishery closure along the Antarctic Peninsula by five fishing companies...
10 July 2018
WWF-Australia and QLD Government will fund a newly created position to mentor female Indigenous rangers and create a Queensland Women’s Ranger Network.
9 July 2018
The first eastern quolls born in the wild on the Australian mainland in over 50 years have been found at Booderee National Park.
8 July 2018
Four major environmental organisations have written to the United Nations calling for an urgent investigation into the Turnbull Government’s failure to protect...
25 June 2018
WWF-Australia and the Australian Conservation Foundation say charities who hold the Australian Government to account on its environmental record, could be...
8 June 2018
A major boost today for one of Australia’s rarest reptiles, the Western Swamp Tortoise, with an increase in the habitat available to the last self-sustaining...
1 June 2018
New satellite tracking has confirmed that critically endangered hawksbill turtles use the Coral Sea as their highway to travel from Papua New Guinea to the...
30 May 2018
The Backyard Barometer is the first report to track the nation’s attitudes towards the environment over a 20-year period.
24 May 2018
One of Australia’s most successful conservation projects is nearing completion with another 25 black-flanked rock-wallabies flown this week to Kalbarri...
18 May 2018
WWF-Australia today thanked supporters and congratulated the Queensland government after Parliament passed laws to stop excessive tree-clearing in the sunshine...
3 May 2018
Public donations have enabled WWF-Australia to protect dugongs by removing the last commercial gill net still operating full time in Far North Queensland.
1 May 2018
When the National Energy Guarantee (NEG) was announced last year, WWF gave it the benefit of the doubt, despite the scant detail that supported this major...
20 April 2018
New pictures show why commercial gill nets and dugongs don't mix. The images show a stranded female dugong after being cut free from a commercial gill net.
19 April 2018
WWF-Australia says the WA state government must do more to stop the clearing of pines.
13 April 2018
In a bold conservation approach, WWF-Australia wants people to chip in to buy and “retire” a commercial fishing licence in the northern Great Barrier Reef.
11 April 2018
WWF-Australia CEO Dermot O’Gorman said the foreign donations Bill is “still a mess and bad for wildlife conservation”, despite changes recommended by a Federal...
10 April 2018
Today, the Hands Off Our Charities alliance will present political representatives with an open letter calling for the abandonment of laws that would silence...
28 March 2018
WWF-Australia and Koala partner to save marine turtles in the Great Barrier Reef.
27 March 2018
The final boundaries released by the Federal Government for changes to marine parks confirm they will be the largest downgrading of protected area the world...
21 March 2018
WWF-Australia warns excessive tree-clearing is pushing koalas to the brink of extinction in parts of Queensland and New South Wales.
19 March 2018
Eastern quolls have returned to the wild of mainland Australia for the first time in decades after 20 of the small mammals were released into Booderee National...
15 March 2018
Conservation groups in NSW welcome today’s Land and Environment Court ruling that the NSW landclearing codes are invalid because they were made unlawfully,...
9 March 2018
WWF-Australia said the Queensland Government’s vegetation management bill is a major step forward in the battle to end the state’s tree-clearing crisis.
8 March 2018
For the first time ever, scientists in Antarctica have attached a camera to a minke – one of the most poorly understood of all the whale species.
16 February 2018
Dozens of fluffy Shy Albatross chicks sitting on artificial nests are a promising sign for scientists behind an innovative plan to help the vulnerable species.
8 February 2018
WWF-Australia says the Federal Government’s announcement today of $60 million to protect the Great Barrier Reef is positive but nowhere near enough to meet...
22 January 2018
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has achieved a successful conclusion to its Antarctic Conservation Partnership, which aims to protect the fragile ecosystem of...
15 January 2018
Traditional Owners conducting scientific monitoring in the far north Kimberley have found exciting evidence of a tiny rock-wallaby long thought to have...
12 January 2018
A new study reveals increasing temperatures are turning green turtle populations almost completely female in the northern Great Barrier Reef.
9 January 2018
WWF and its partners have introduced revolutionary blockchain technology to the Pacific Islands’ tuna industry, the first of its kind for this region, to help...
8 January 2018