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New EY report shows that experts believe Australia can become a world-leading renewable exporter with the right policy support

Australia is uniquely positioned to capitalise on the renewable and clean manufacturing export opportunity, with the right federal support and policy...

24 October 2021

Clean exports could deliver 395,000 new jobs

Together, ACF, WWF-Australia, ACTU and BCA are today releasing Sunshot: Australia’s opportunity to create 395,000 clean export jobs, charting a path for the...

13 October 2021

Sunset landscape in the central kimberley with spinifex grass and sandstone ridges

Report shows why Australia should meet global land protection targets

A new report by the World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia reveals more than 1500 of Australia’s unique ecosystems, both on land and sea, fall outside...

12 October 2021

WWF welcomes commitment to stronger regulation in salmon industry but awaits more detail

WWF-Australia is pleased to see the Tasmanian Government committing to stronger regulation and transparency in the salmon farming industry with the...

17 September 2021

Solar panels and wind turbines generating electricity in solar power station

Andrew Forrest, Bruce Pascoe, Lucy Turnbull join new podcast on how to make Australia a sustainability superpower

WWF-Australia partner with Good Will Hunters podcast in new series to drive sustainability agenda in lead-up to COP26

13 September 2021

Australia’s strengthened support for a global plastics treaty is a breakthrough

Australia’s support for a binding global agreement to address marine plastic pollution is a breakthrough, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia.

13 September 2021

Dangar Falls= Dorrigo= Bellingen Shire= NSW

How conservation and tourism are rebuilding Australia’s tourism sector

Three of Australia’s bushfire-prone regions are joining the push to build Australia’s tourism sector back better using sustainability principles, thanks to...

9 September 2021

Eastern quoll translocation= Jervis Bay= NSW

WWF welcomes zero extinction target in NSW national parks

The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia has welcomed the NSW government’s Threatened Species Day announcement of a zero extinction target in the state’s...

7 September 2021

Platypus to make a comeback in Australia's oldest national park

UNSW researchers are teaming up with WWF-Australia, Taronga Zoo and NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service to bring platypuses back into the Royal National...

5 September 2021

WWF-Australia statement on Tasmanian aquaculture and report on salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour

WWF works across the seafood supply chain to protect marine ecosystems, the species that live within them and the communities that depend on seafood for their...

1 September 2021

A brush-tailed bettong is released in Dhilba Guuranda-Innes National Park on Yorke Peninsula

Brush-tailed bettongs back on mainland South Australia after disappearing more than 100 years ago

One of Australia’s rarest marsupials, the brush-tailed bettong, has been reintroduced to mainland South Australia after being locally extinct for more than a...

22 August 2021

Silver-headed antechinus in Blackdown National Park

Scientists find rare “suicidal reproducer” marsupial surviving in burnt Queensland forest

There’s good news for one of Australia’s rarest mammals, the silver-headed antechinus, amid fears it had been pushed to the brink by the 2019-20 megafires.

16 August 2021