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On Save The Koala Day, the plan to turn Claude’s lunch leftovers into crucial habitat

He’s the leaf thief whose antics went viral, inspiring memes and stories around the world. In multiple raids during July, Claude the koala ate 4,050 koala food...

29 September 2023

“Gut wrenching carnage” chopper flight over Tallaganda destruction

A helicopter flight over the logging destruction of prime greater glider habitat in Tallaganda has shocked ACT Independent Senator David Pocock and Dermot...

19 September 2023

WWF celebrates giant win for koalas with process to establish Great Koala National Park

The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia has congratulated the NSW Government for moving forward with its commitment to establish the Great Koala National Park.

12 September 2023

Take a moment to be amazed, at one of Australia’s most spectacular sights

On National Threatened Species day, let’s all take a moment to enjoy amazing video of one of the world’s largest gliding animals – Australia’s endangered...

7 September 2023

Claude the leaf thief caught green handed

Claude “the leaf thief” has found the best all-you-can-eat buffet a koala could hope for – and he hasn’t held back. For weeks now, this large male koala has...

5 September 2023

EPA issues stop work order on logging of greater glider habitat at Tallaganda

The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia tonight commended the New South Wales Environment Minister Penny Sharpe and the NSW Environment Protection Authority...

30 August 2023

Greater glider peeks its head from tree hollow in Tallaganda National Park= NSW

NSW is logging one of the state’s last strongholds for greater gliders

The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia today expressed shock that the Forestry Corporation New South Wales is logging one of the last remaining strongholds...

29 August 2023

Aerial view tropical rainforest, forest tree texture and background.

Cybersecurity incident

WWF-Australia is aware of a cyber incident that has impacted one of our fundraising providers, Pareto Phone, which has resulted in the disclosure of the...

24 August 2023

WWF-Australia’s marine scientist, Christine Hof, with a hawksbill turtle that has been paired with a satellite tracker on Milman Island, February 2017

Satellites and DNA reveal new insights into western Pacific’s rapidly declining hawksbill turtles

For the first time, a new study reveals that many hawksbill turtles satellite-tagged in Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) Conflict Islands swam over 1,000km to reach...

15 August 2023

WWF-Australia and Greening Australia, with the help of RAW Group are planting glossy black cockatoo habitat trees - She-oaks, on a farmer's property (Ed Vercoe) down at Carrickalinga, South Australia.

“If we plant it, hopefully they will come” – enticing rare Kangaroo Island glossies back to the mainland

Greening Australia and the World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia are teaming up to plant more than 19,000 food and nesting trees to entice the glossy...

14 August 2023

Eucalypt forest in dry bed of Flaggy Creek, north of Coonabarabran, NSW

WWF calls on government to pick up pace on nature reforms

With the Nature Repair Market Bill now through the House of Representatives, the World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia called on senators to work together to...

21 June 2023

A brush-tailed bettong leaps into its new home in Dhilba Guuranda-Innes National Park.

Bettongs on board: tiny marsupials fly interstate to new home in South Australia

Seven commercial flights landed in Adelaide last week with some unusual passengers - a group of tiny, critically endangered marsupials. Seventy-three...

20 June 2023