Media Releases - 11 May 2023 - Nature - Laws - Australia wide Government must ensure new EPA is fully independent and meet funding gaps in costing While the Labor government has made an important step in committing seed funding to Environmental Pr...
Media Releases - 10 May 2023 - Nature - Laws - Australia wide Federal budget only scratches the surface of Australia's environment needs While tonight’s federal budget announcement is a small step in the right direction for nature, there...
Media Releases - 18 April 2023 - Malbena - Species - Threatened - Tasmania Looming development decision could spell disaster for endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle A proposed tourism operation at Lake Malbena would likely severely impact dwindling populations of e...
Media Releases - 13 April 2023 - Forests - Tasmania Forests - Tasmania Tourism peak body's condemnation of Tasmanian logging fires & smoke pollution welcome Wilderness Society welcomes the leadership of Tourism Industry Council in condemning negative impact...
Media Releases - 29 March 2023 - Climate - Laws - Australia wide The Wilderness Society makes the following statement regarding the Safeguard Mechanism The Wilderness Society commends Chris Bowen and Adam Bandt for constructively working to improve Aus...
Media Releases - 17 March 2023 - Climate - Laws - Community rights - Fossil fuels - Tasmania “Extreme, serious and harmful”: IPCC experts respond to proposed fossil fuel expansion off King Island ConocoPhillips held a public ‘consultation’ conducted on King Island. Poorly attended, the consultat...
Media Releases - 08 March 2023 - Iconic place - Channel Country - Lake Eyre - Fossil fuels - Queensland No more mining lobby delays on Channel Country protections The Wilderness Society is urging the Palaszczuk Government to release the long overdue report from t...
Media Releases - 02 March 2023 - Logging - Tasmania Forests - Tasmania Will Premier Rockliff support Maydena’s tourism aspirations or sacrifice them for more unsustainable forest destruction? The Wilderness Society is urging the Premier of lutruwita / Tasmania, Jeremy Rockliff MP, to support...
Media Releases - 24 February 2023 - Community rights - Fossil fuels - Tasmania King Island has spoken. Will ConocoPhillips & the Govt respect or ignore residents’ Community Rights? With US fossil fuel giant ConocoPhillips announcing its intention to visit King Island to again ‘con...
Media Releases - 15 February 2023 - Nature - Laws - Biodiversity - Species - Threatened - Australia wide Four years on, Australia's Wildlife Still in Crisis: The Bramble Cay Melomys Day a Sobering Call to Action The fourth anniversary of the extinction of the Bramble Cay melomys marks a devastating turning poin...