Media Releases - 02 May 2022 - Fossil fuels - Tasmania Fossil fuel gas drilling off King Island announced—no mention of public consultation or Community Rights In an apparent investor briefing, 3D Oil has appeared to confirm that exploration drilling for fossi...
Media Releases - 24 March 2022 - Victoria Forests - Victoria Illegal logging to be made legal? New powers create moving goalposts on logging laws and quash community rights to consultation The Wilderness Society condemns the Victorian Government for passing logging legislation today that ...
Media Releases - 11 March 2022 - Nature Nature Walk Challenge This 15–25 April, take the Wilderness Society’s Nature Walk Challenge. Over this 10-day period, choo...
Media Releases - 24 February 2022 - Tasmania Forests - Tasmania Wilderness Society briefs World Heritage Centre on Tasmanian Govt’s Broken Promises Last night Australian environment organisation the Wilderness Society addressed the World Heritage C...
Media Releases - 04 February 2022 - Tasmania Forests - Tasmania Governments mislead UNESCO on Tasmanian wilderness The Wilderness Society is concerned that the Australian Government’s State of the Conservation (SoC)...
Media Releases - 28 January 2022 - Queensland deforestation - Queensland Funding announcement insufficient to overcome climate and other challenges facing the Great Barrier Reef The Wilderness Society provides the following response to the Morrison Government’s announcement mad...
Media Releases - 30 December 2021 - Deforestation - Queensland Latest shocking Queensland deforestation figures demand urgent action from business & industry Latest figures show over 668,000 hectares of forest and bushland in Qld, Australia were destroyed in...
Media Releases - 17 December 2021 - Victoria Forests - Victoria Andrews Gov’t announcement of additional industry support doesn’t solve wood supply crisis, nor cover up VicForests’ appalling conduct The Wilderness Society welcomes today’s reaffirmation of the native forest logging phase out by 2030...
Media Releases - 16 December 2021 - Fossil fuels - New South Wales PEP11’s dragged out cancellation shows offshore oil and gas licensing rules must be rewritten The federal government’s long-delayed rejection of the PEP11 project is a win for communities, but u...
Media Releases - 16 December 2021 - Malbena - Tasmania Wilderness Society achieves significant outcome in effort to keep Lake Malbena public & protected The Wilderness Society and its co-appellants (the Tasmanian National Parks Association, Richard Webb...