Protecting wilderness, people and wildlife: our campaigns for a better future.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 tackle many of the most serious issues in nature protection facing our country today. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Landclearing 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.
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.
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.
Nuclear Free Nuclear power creates deadly radioactive waste at each stage of the cycle, from mining to waste dump. There's no proven method to safely store radioactive waste. Nuclear power would see waste generated, stored and transported across Australia, including population centres. For the safety of our children and our environment, say NO to nuclear waste and YES to clean, renewable energy.
Outback Australia Much of Australia’s remaining wilderness – lands least impacted by modern, technological society – is to be found in the Outback.
The Wilderness Society is campaigning to protect wild areas in Outback Australia from environmentally -unsustainable practices associated with broad scale land clearing, mining, pastoralism and intensive irrigated agriculture.
Wild Rivers 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.
The Wilderness Society is a community-based
environmental advocacy organisation whose mission is protecting, promoting and restoring
wilderness and natural processes across Australia for the survival and ongoing evolution of
life on Earth.
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WildCountry is our vision
to build a better world for everyone, including a brighter, safer future for our children, and to
ensure the survival of life on Earth. It unifies our campaigns to protect Australia’s water, wild
places and wildlife, and to tackle climate change. more »
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