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Updated: May 20, 2013

The Wilderness Society's Campaigns

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Right now, big threats and big solutions are competing for our future. The Wilderness Society is working, in partnership with community groups around Australia, to solve the most serious threats to nature protection in Australia. We focus on innovative and positive solutions, developing cutting-edge conservation science, raising awareness at all levels, and catalyzing community action. Explore our current campaigns to find out more, and help create a better future.

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Cape York
Cape York Peninsula is one of the last great wild places on earth. It is as important and rare as places like the Serengeti, the Congo and the Amazon. Cape York is nearly as big as the state of Victoria and is a tropical mosaic of rainforests, dunes, wetlands, reef and savanna.
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Climate Change
Research shows that Australia's forests and bushland are some of the most carbon-rich in the world. They play an enormous role in protecting us from dangerous climate change, and protect our wildlife too. Yet, logging and landclearing emit as much greenhouse gas as Australia's road, rail, sea and air traffic combined.  With your help we can tackle dangerous climate change.
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Coal Seam Gas
Coal Seam Gas is a massive public issue. The movie 'Gaslands', farmers and locals standing up to multi-national corporations, community blockades in Queensland, and growing problems in New South Wales have captured the public's imagination. But just what are the environmental impacts of this massive new industry? And what is the Wilderness Society in NSW doing about it?

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Forests
Australia has some of the most magnificent and biodiverse forests in the world. They maintain our water supplies and are our natural ally in tackling climate change. Yet many of these ancient forests, particularly in Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales, are clearfelled, burnt, and turned into millions of tonnes of woodchips for paper and cardboard every year.
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Great Western Woodlands
The Great Western Woodlands are little known locally, but are internationally recognised as one of the most biologically significant and intact regions left on Earth.
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Gunns' Pulp Mill
Gunns Ltd, Australia’s largest logging company, is proposing to build a chlorine bleaching, native forest fed pulp mill in Tasmania. Stopping the pulp mill is crucial because it will be a disaster for climate change.
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The Kimberley
The Kimberley region of northern WA is one of the world's great natural and Indigenous cultural regions. Its vast savannah landscapes, wild rivers, extensive wetlands, spectacular coast and rich marine environments provide a multitude of habitats that are home to an extraordinary diversity of species.
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Land Clearing
Every year hundreds of thousands of hectares of Australian bushland are bulldozed, chained or poisoned to 'improve' land for agriculture. This is the greatest single threat to biodiversity in the nation, and a major source of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately, Australia destroys more native vegetation than any other developed nation.
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Marine and Coastal
Australia's marine waters cover double the area of our land. The seascape below the surface is more varied and dramatic than our terrestrial landscapes; canyons, undersea mountains, plateaus and trenches, home to an incredible variety of life. Sadly, overfishing, oil and gas drilling, mining and pollution are destroying marine habitats, leaving them on the verge of collapse.
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Northern Australia
Northern Australia is one of the last great wild places on Earth, and the largest, most intact tropical savannah anywhere. Stretching from the Kimberley region to Cape York Peninsula, its a vast arc of forests, woodlands, wild rivers and wetlands. But the decline of bird populations, invasion of exotic animals, and many proposals to expand irrigated farming, land clearing, mining and dams leaves it on the verge of devastating change.
 
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River Protection
From the days of the Franklin River campaign in Tasmania, wild rivers have captured the imagination of Australia. Little known is that the majority of Australia’s wild rivers are in the tropical north. The natural river flows that are the heartbeat of the North’s diverse ecosystems and lifeblood for many existing communities are under threat from dams, irrigation schemes, and landclearing in their catchments.
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WildCountry Vision
We want our children to inherit a safe environment and a diverse, healthy and living world. We believe life on Earth should have a secure future. The WildCountry vision is a "forever plan" for Australia's environment combining science from leading academics with The Wilderness Society's campaign experience. The result is an audacious, big-picture, long-term solution.
 
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