2°C of warming could wipe out rare Australian bird
A new report from the World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia, in collaboration with Deakin University, predicts if climate change causes a 2°C increase in...
10 December 2024
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Detection dog sniffs out new group of chlamydia-free koalas
A poo-sniffing English springer spaniel named Max has struck gold - identifying a new group of koalas inland of Coffs Harbour that appear to be chlamydia free...
9 December 2024
WWF welcomes $22 billion towards Australia becoming a Renewable Energy Superpower
While welcoming yesterday’s announcements, WWF-Australia Head of Regenerative Climate, Nat Burke, warned that the Future Made in Australia investments will...
29 November 2024
Last chance for countries to deliver global treaty on plastic pollution
Australia and other nations must deliver a strong and effective global treaty to end plastic pollution, WWF-Australia said ahead of the final negotiating...
25 November 2024
Ancient Indigenous fire knowledge can help farmers, unite communities and transform lives
A Traditional Owner-led, cultural burning project in North Queensland is achieving far more than restoring grazing land.
12 November 2024
Indigenous rangers help rare rock wallabies after wildfire hits population
Indigenous rangers in the Kimberley have supplied supplementary food to help one of Australia’s rarest animals survive after a devastating wildfire swept...
5 November 2024
Antarctic conservation takes a backward step
The body responsible for conserving Antarctic marine life has failed to agree on new marine protected areas and taken a substantial step backward on krill...
30 October 2024
WWF stands ready to work with the new LNP government on crucial environmental issues
The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia today said it is looking forward to working with the new LNP government on the crucial environmental issues that...
28 October 2024
WWF appeals to LNP to honour the deal made with Queenslanders on the climate target
The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia is deeply concerned by Opposition Leader David Crisafulli’s statement that coal fired power could be used indefinitely.
11 October 2024
Global wildlife populations fall 73%
There has been a catastrophic 73% decline in the average size of monitored wildlife populations in just 50 years, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature’s...
10 October 2024
First Nations voices call for a Nature Positive future
A joint statement, co-written by First Nations advisers at the Australian Conservation Foundation and WWF-Australia and signed by more than 40 groups and...
10 October 2024
New polling shows overwhelming support for stronger nature laws
New YouGov polling has revealed a majority of Australians – 7 in 10 voters – say the Albanese government needs to do more to protect and restore nature.
8 October 2024
Oceans Blueprint calls for ship speed limits to protect whales
Mandatory speed limits to reduce the risk of ship strikes on whales is one of a suite of proposals in a new plan released by the World Wide Fund for...
8 October 2024
310,000km2 expansion of Australia’s most remote marine reserve is welcome, but stronger protections needed
WWF-Australia has welcomed a decision to quadruple the size of Australia’s most remote marine reserve, but said the government had missed an opportunity to...
8 October 2024
World-first livestream of rare endangered greater gliders
In a world first, a scientist has set up a live stream from inside the hollow of a pair of endangered greater gliders in a secret location in New South Wales.
3 October 2024
World’s largest fire study proves success of Indigenous fire management
New research proves that Indigenous led fire projects have been a major success in Western Australia’s North Kimberley – one of the most fire prone regions in...
18 September 2024
Beef industry misses the mark with deforestation policy
The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia has serious concerns about Cattle Australia’s (CA) Land Management Commitment policy released today.
16 September 2024
Alarming land clearing figures show why NSW needs stronger laws now
New figures reveal that land clearing in NSW is continuing at an alarming pace, threatening the survival of koalas, greater gliders and other endangered...
13 September 2024
Turtle tunnels provide safe passage for migrating reptiles
Conservationists reintroducing eastern quolls to mainland Australia faced a big problem: the fence needed to protect quolls from foxes would potentially kill a...
9 September 2024
Government must work with crossbench to strengthen and pass nature law reforms
The federal government should work with crossbenchers to strengthen and pass its long-awaited reforms to Australia’s nature laws, said WWF-Australia.
9 September 2024
Australia scores three Fs on threatened species report card
On Threatened Species Day, an updated report card shows Australia is still failing to protect our unique plants and animals.
7 September 2024
NSW Forestry plan must end native forest logging and invest in a plantation-based timber industry
The Forest Alliance NSW is calling on a newly announced expert panel, set up by the Minns Labor Government to advise it on the future of forestry, to put...
26 August 2024
Australia Post and WWF-Australia join forces to protect koalas from extinction
Australia Post and WWF-Australia are encouraging the community to start a conversation about koala conservation.
20 August 2024
Report shows the Reef is resilient but increasingly vulnerable
A new report into the health of the Great Barrier Reef shows the World Heritage icon is resilient but increasingly vulnerable to climate change, said...
7 August 2024
New report: Australia must act fast to become global green iron leader
A new report by WWF-Australia has set out the actions Australia needs to take to become a global leader in green iron manufacturing and decarbonise the iron...
1 August 2024
NSW nature law reforms must go further to stop runaway land clearing
The NSW Government has taken an important step toward fixing the state’s failing nature laws, but WWF-Australia said further reforms are urgently needed to...
17 July 2024
WWF welcomes a dozen new Indigenous Protected Areas
The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia today welcomed the federal government’s announcement of 12 new Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs) because of their...
10 July 2024
Indigenous rangers using AI and drones to fireproof Minjerribah’s remarkable island koalas
Indigenous rangers from Quandamooka Yoolooburrabee Aboriginal Corporation (QYAC) are combining drones and Artificial Intelligence with ancient Knowledge to...
8 July 2024
Australia falls short in protecting penguin paradise
WWF-Australia has welcomed a proposal to quadruple the size of Heard and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve near Antarctica, but warned critical foraging grounds...
5 July 2024
Call to close logging loophole in Australia’s nature laws
The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia has called on Senators to strengthen reforms to Australia’s environment laws and close a loophole that allows native...
4 July 2024
UNESCO says Australia must do more on climate & tree clearing to protect the Reef
The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia today released new video which shows the world heritage status of the Great Barrier Reef is seriously threatened after...
25 June 2024
Remarkable images show a wombat sharing its burrow with a fox
Pictures sent to the World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia appear to show something extraordinary: a wombat sharing its burrow with a fox and her cub at Murrays...
24 June 2024
WWF welcomes beef industry’s steps to address deforestation
The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia has welcomed the release of Cattle Australia’s (CA) Land Management Commitment Information Paper as an important step...
19 June 2024
Nuclear not a climate solution for Australia
The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia has long advocated for Australia to tackle the climate crisis by seizing the massive opportunity we have to become the...
19 June 2024
Why two frogs and a lizard indicate lungtalanana needs more help to “heal”
After five nights of trapping, the only small native species detected on lungtalanana in Bass Strait were two frogs and a lizard.
5 June 2024
“Brazen” koala Claude now raiding seedlings in front of staff
But new plantings will help this viral “leaf thief” and his koala mates.Claude the “leaf thief” koala recently climbed down into the Eastern Forest Nursery...
3 June 2024
EPA is welcome but won’t solve Australia’s extinction crisis
WWF-Australia has welcomed the introduction of legislation to establish a national environment protection agency, but warned it won’t be enough to solve...
29 May 2024
NSW environment movement “losing confidence in the EPA” over greater gliders
The environment movement is losing confidence in the NSW Environment Protection Authority after a dramatic backflip on greater glider protection, described as...
27 May 2024
New study: wombat burrows provide critical shelter for many species following wildfire
A new study, published in the Journal of Mammalogy, found wombat burrows boost native mammal richness, provide critical shelter for numerous species following...
20 May 2024
Budget leaves nature shortchanged
Tonight’s federal budget has fallen short in delivering the funding needed to protect threatened species and regenerate nature, said WWF-Australia.
14 May 2024
Australia’s habitat protection laws “ineffective, woefully underused”, new report finds
A new report has slammed national and state habitat protection laws as “ineffective and woefully underused”.
14 May 2024
188 breaches of new condition designed to protect greater gliders
Conservation groups are demanding an urgent investigation and prosecution after detecting 188 alleged breaches by Forestry Corp NSW of a new condition designed...
3 May 2024
Endangered eastern quolls back at Booderee
Booderee National Park is once again home to eastern quolls with 19 of the species released into a new purpose-built wildlife enclosure.
21 April 2024
WWF welcomes Qld’s strong new climate and renewables laws
As climate change ravages the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland has just passed two new laws setting strong climate and renewable energy targets.
18 April 2024
Devastating GBR coral bleaching map must prompt strong climate action from the Australian government
The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia is urging Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to take strong climate action in response to potentially the largest loss of...
17 April 2024
Australian EPA is a potential “game-changer”, but comprehensive package of reforms are needed to prevent extinctions
Plans to establish a new federal watchdog to enforce Australia’s environment laws are welcome and must be followed by a comprehensive package of reforms to...
16 April 2024
Australia setting poor example on emissions targets as global mass bleaching event confirmed
The heat stress damaging coral across most of the Great Barrier Reef is now officially part of a global mass bleaching event.
16 April 2024
Plan for Australian-made renewables will benefit people and the planet
The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia has welcomed the Prime Minister’s vision to make Australia a world leader in renewable manufacturing and exports.
11 April 2024
WWF welcomes $1b investment in Australian-made solar panels
The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia has welcomed the announcement of a $1 billion fund to grow Australia’s solar panel manufacturing industry.
28 March 2024
First-ever platypus translocation in NSW results in breeding success
Scientists and researchers have discovered a juvenile platypus in the Royal National Park, less than a year after ten platypuses were returned to the park...
21 March 2024
5th mass bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef in 8 years
The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia is deeply concerned by the official declaration of another mass coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef – the...
8 March 2024
This cute little native rat has defied Australia’s biodiversity crisis
The Golden-backed Tree-rat, also known as the koorrawal, has defied the odds – at least technically according to government guidelines.
19 February 2024
EPA backtracks on controversial logging rules
NSW's environmental watchdog has scrapped controversial new logging rules after scientists and conservation groups warned they would fast track the extinction...
16 February 2024
New climate law is a Valentine’s Day gift to people and nature
Queensland has delivered a Valentine’s Day gift to people and nature with the introduction of new laws to raise the state’s emissions reduction targets, said...
14 February 2024
Forestry Corp no longer required to search for greater glider den trees
The NSW Environment Protection Authority will no longer require Forestry Corp to search for and identify the den trees of endangered greater gliders before...
2 February 2024
Forestry Corp pulls out of Tallaganda… for now
Wilderness Australia, the World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia and South East Forest Rescue have claimed victory after Forestry Corp quietly pulled out of...
30 January 2024
WWF welcomes investment in globally important Tasmanian renewable hydrogen hub
The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia has welcomed a $70 million commitment to develop a renewable hydrogen hub at Bell Bay in Northern Tasmania.
18 January 2024