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Updated: August 11, 2010
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Save forests for safe climate
All over Australia, TWS supporters showed their support for a green solution to dangerous climate change with a series of 350.org actions. 25% of greenhouse gas emissions are caused by logging and degrading forests and bushland – so protecting forests makes climate sense, as well as safeguarding vital habitat for threatened wildlife.
Climate Change Info
Copenhagen - Help protect Australia's, and the world's, intact natural forests from logging
Get daily updates from the Copenhagen climate conference and sign our forest pledge. more »
Avoiding dangerous climate change
We must do all we can to limit climate change now. This means large and rapid reductions in the emissions of greenhouse gases from all sources. more »
Our forests are crucial carbon stores
How forests help to tackle climate change by Professor Brendan Mackey from the Australian National University and member of the WildCountry Science Council. more »
A series of compromises by the federal government on its pre-election commitment to take strong action on climate change has led to national and peak state-based environment organisations uniting in opposition to the proposed emissions trading legislation.
Together, we're working on Plan B. more »
Climate Change Events
- Community carbon-accounting days
With your help, we can measure the amount of carbon stored in the forests that Forestry Tasmania is planning to log, and find out the true value of Tasmania's forests. For more details on upcoming Community Carbon Accounting Days please contact the campaign centre on 03 6224 1550 or email liz.johnstone@wilderness.org.au Future community carbon-accounting days are being organised, and details will be listed here as soon as they are available.
Climate Change Updates
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Australia's Outback Found to be a Vast Climate 'Pollution Bank' - September 01, 2010
Australia’s vast Outback has been found to play a vital role in absorbing and storing damaging climate pollution and, if better managed, the area could become a key factor in reducing the nation’s greenhouse emissions, according to a new national study.
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Walk Against Warming 2010 Tasmania - August 19, 2010
Well over 1000 people participated in the Walk Against Warming in Hobart and Launceston and marched under the slogan "walk with the people, not the big polluters".
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Thousands join the Walk Against Warming across Australia - August 15, 2010
Over 15,000 people across Australia marched together in the Walk Against Warming yesterday in protest over the political inaction against climate change.
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Walkers send not-too-warm message to pollies on climate - August 15, 2010
SMH Online - Thousands of supporters of the annual Walk Against Warming have wound their way through the streets of Brisbane in a stark reminder that tackling climate change remains a key issue for the 2010 Federal Election.
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Seeking a solution for Tasmania's world-class forests - August 12, 2010
Australia is home to some of the most magnificent forests on Earth. And these forests are able to store massive amounts of carbon. They have a huge role to play in solutions to climate change. This solution is now within our reach. You can help us achieve forest protection and a major climate solution by signing this petition.
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Hello… green policies? Gillard, Abbott Missing-In-Action on nature conservation
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August 03, 2010
The Wilderness Society has criticized both Labor and the Coalition for failing to present clear, positive policies to protect our native forests, our unique natural ecosystems and marine environments, and iconic places like the Kimberley and Cape York.
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Australian Federal Election - Your environment, your future, your vote - July 23, 2010
The Federal election is on Saturday, August 21. Get active, tell the major parties the environment is your priority, and let’s get the environment and action on climate change on the federal agenda.
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Parliamentary nod to burning native forests for electricity
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June 24, 2010
Laws designed to encourage renewable energy ventures are having the perverse effect of incentivising the logging of native forests, The Wilderness Society said.
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Protecting native forests: an essential climate measure - June 10, 2010
The government has abandoned their Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, but there’s a cheap, practical way of cutting greenhouse gas emissions that’s ready right now - protecting Australia’s unique native forests.
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Developed countries seeking loopholes to avoid emissions cuts at UN climate talks
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June 08, 2010
BONN, Germany – Rich developed countries are attempting to cheat on accounting for their carbon emissions from logging and will only agree to ambitious overall greenhouse gas reduction targets if they get the forestry loopholes they demand, warned the Ecosystems Climate Alliance today.
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