Media Releases - 16 April 2024 - Laws - Australia wide
Government announces a form of ‘EPA’ but forests still hanging in the balance
Establishing ‘Environment Protection Australia’ with enforcement powers will not alone remedy the ex...
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Jobs - 12 April 2024
Volunteer - Committee of Management
The TWS Victoria Committee of Management (CoM) are currently looking for individuals who are committ...
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News - 09 April 2024 - Lake Eyre Basin
Protect the Great Artesian Basin, reject Glencore’s carbon pollution injection pilot project
The Wilderness Society does not support the proposed pilot project to inject liquid carbon dioxide i...
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Media Releases - 07 April 2024 - Fossil fuels - Australia wide
Esso’s Bass Strait pipeline spill shows the consequences of the deliberate delaying of cleaning up Australia’s ageing oil and gas infrastructure
On 6 April 2024 oil and gas company Esso reported a hydrocarbon spill into the ocean, believed to b...
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Media Releases - 03 April 2024 - Tasmania Forests - Tasmania
Thousands of Tasmania’s giant trees could be spared following policy change
Thousands of Tasmanian trees may now be protected from logging following changes announced last Frid...
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Media Releases - 28 March 2024 - Tasmania Forests - Tasmania
Court denies the Wilderness Society’s right to criminally charge state logging agency amidst looming questions of illegality
A decision handed down in Launceston Magistrates Court today has denied the Wilderness Society's rig...
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Media Releases - 27 March 2024 - Deforestation - Queensland
Albanese government fails to monitor deforestation, leaving it to citizen scientists to uncover potentially illegal clearing
The work of citizen scientists has laid bare the staggering lack of federal government monitoring of...
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Media Releases - 25 March 2024 - Deforestation - Queensland
Joint deforestation investigation exposes broken national environment law
A joint investigation by three of Australia’s leading environmental organisations has uncovered mult...
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News - 15 March 2024 - Queensland deforestation - Queensland
New analysis reveals shocking track record of federal nature law that favours coal mines over koalas
Queensland nature groups have joined together to call on the Albanese Government to deliver strong n...
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News - 15 March 2024 - Fossil fuels - New South Wales
NSW becomes Australia’s first state to ban oil and gas in its coastal waters
The NSW government legislated a ban on offshore oil and gas exploration and mining, making it the fi...