Environment bill is a recipe for extinction, warns WWF
Today Australia witnessed a bill that will weaken Australia’s nature laws and transfer development approval powers to state governments rushed through the...
3 September 2020
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New WWF report: 3 billion animals impacted by Australia’s bushfire crisis
Nearly three billion animals – mammals, reptiles, birds, and frogs – were killed or displaced by Australia’s devastating 2019-20 bushfires.
28 July 2020
Gill net buyback promising news for dugongs and other threatened marine life
The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia today welcomed the Queensland LNP’s policy announcement of a $6 million voluntary buyback scheme prioritising the...
26 July 2020
Government puts wildlife at risk by ignoring expert advice on EPBC Act, warns WWF
The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) is undergoing a once-in-a-decade review. An interim report released today outlines...
20 July 2020
Strong action needed on koala committee report to avoid koala extinction
The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia today agreed with a New South Wales Upper House report that says, following huge bushfire losses, koalas face...
30 June 2020
WWF welcomes creation of massive new national park
The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia today welcomed the announcement by the New South Wales government that it has purchased the 153,415 hectare Narriearra...
27 June 2020
Destruction of greater glider habitat jumped by 52% after vulnerable listing
Destruction of greater glider habitat increased by 52% in New South Wales and Queensland after the species was listed as vulnerable to extinction, a report by...
26 June 2020
Threatened species lose 1 million ha of habitat to unauthorised agricultural development
More than one million hectares of threatened species habitat has been lost due to unauthorised clearing by agriculturalists who have failed to follow the law,...
25 June 2020
Great Southern Ark project renamed Marna Banggara
The Great Southern Ark, an innovative land management project on southern Yorke Peninsula in South Australia has been renamed Marna Banggara to honour the...
5 June 2020
Maryanne the “miracle” koala returned to the wild after bushfire wounds heal
In early December 2019, Maryanne was found underweight, dehydrated, and suffering with burnt paws after a bushfire swept through the area. After emergency...
28 May 2020
Cockatoo chicks hatch among burnt bushland on Kangaroo Island
Glossy black-cockatoo chicks have hatched among burnt bushland on Kangaroo Island, boosting hopes the endangered species can be saved from extinction.
25 May 2020
Critically endangered dunnarts discovered at new site on bushfire-ravaged Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island dunnarts have been captured on camera... giving hope to conservationists working to bring the species back from the brink of extinction.
21 April 2020