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Dr Stuart Blanch from WWF-Australia and Stephen Phillips from Biolink searching for koalas post bushfires

WWF welcomes early Christmas present for Lake Innes koalas

The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia today welcomed the protection of 194 hectares of high quality koala habitat that was up for sale at Lake Innes on the...

17 December 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

Tree-clearing for urban expansion near Ipswich= southeast Queensland

Australia remains the only developed nation on the list of global deforestation fronts

A new report from the World Wide Fund for Nature names eastern Australia among 24 global deforestation fronts – the only developed nation on the list.

13 January 2021

Nicky Ison= WWF-Australia Energy Transition Manager next to a solar panel

WWF: NSW Electricity Roadmap a strategic pivot towards Australia being a global renewable superpower

The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia welcomed today’s release of the NSW Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap.

9 November 2020

Koala mother and joey seeking refuge on a bulldozed logpile

37 million animals already lost due to lack of ‘independent Cop on the beat’, losses set to worsen

Thirty seven million birds, mammals and reptiles face death or displacement over the next decade in eastern Australia if the nation’s flagship conservation law...

5 November 2020

A koala in care with RSPCA Queensland= cuddling a panda plush

Living Planet Report shows “protecting koalas should be above politics”

On the day WWF’s Living Planet Report 2020 reveals global wildlife populations fell by 68% since 1970, NSW’s political leaders are sparring over whether...

10 September 2020

The team transporting eastern quolls inside their den boxes to the release site.

New WWF report: koalas suffer 71% decline across fire grounds

A new report commissioned by the World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia found the 2019-20 bushfires resulted in the loss of about 71% of koala populations in...

6 September 2020

Single-use plastic bag floating with a school of fish in a shallow reef

Australia’s plastics scorecard: Queensland races ahead with today’s plastic bill

Queensland has raced into first place on WWF-Australia’s new single-use plastics scorecard with the introduction of their single-use plastic bill into...

15 July 2020

Koala mother and joey seek refuge on bulldozed logs in Queensland, Australia.

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

The 153,415 hectare Narriearra Station in far north west NSW is the largest purchase of private land for national parks in the State’s history. Courtesy National Park and Wildlife Service

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

Greater glider in a patch of old-growth forest in Munruben, Logan City, south of Brisbane

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

The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia funded Eco Logical Australia (ELA) to conduct the surveys in Gibraltar Range National Park (5 sites in March) and Torrington State Conservation Area (2 sites in February).

Ecologists conducted daytime fauna searches and set up sensor cameras. The number of ground dwelling species detected was less than 10% of what would normally be expected.

There was an absence of low mobility, ground-dwelling species with only a swamp rat, an unidentified mammal (possibly a Spotted-tailed Quoll or Rufous Bettong), and five smaller reptiles recorded (Murrays Skink x 3, Dark Bar-sided skink x 1, Copper-tailed Skink x 1). Birds that typically spend most of the time on the ground (e.g. quail-thrush and scrubwrens) were also not detected. Quantifiably, this was considered likely to be a > 90% reduction over what could have been expected to be seen.

Post-bushfire survey shows 90% reduction in wildlife

One of the first wildlife surveys conducted after Australia’s devastating bushfires has found a 90% reduction in ground dwelling species in burnt areas.

22 June 2020