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 ...
News - 15 March 2022 - Laws - Australia wide Morrison Government attempts new plans to make it even easier for destructive developers to destroy habitat and landscapes The Wilderness Society provides the following statement on Ministers Pitt and Ley’s media release re...
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...
News - 25 February 2022 - Tasmania Forests - Tasmania South Coast Track developer moving ahead despite near-universal opposition to parks privatisation The Wilderness Society rejects any suggestion that it is engaged in consultation with any entity abo...
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...
News - 15 February 2022 - Tasmania Forests - Tasmania International Spotlight Shines on lutruwita/Tasmania’s “Globally Significant” Forests The Wilderness Society has welcomed the publication of an international study of the world’s high co...
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...