Media Releases - 08 December 2022 - Nature - Laws - Australia wide Still to be resolved if proposed nature laws will better protect the environment or continue to facilitate ongoing development and destruction Albanese government response to the Independent Review of the EPBC Act risks leaving in place a sys...
Media Releases - 07 December 2022 - Deforestation - Australia wide EU deforestation law sends Australian industries a clear signal: time to better protect nature The Wilderness Society provides the following statement after EU institutions reached a deal on a ne...
Media Releases - 06 December 2022 - Deforestation - Australia wide New drone footage exposes shocking land clearing of ‘likely’ koala habitat This comes as a new report reveals more than one million hectares of forest was cleared for beef fro...
Media Releases - 03 December 2022 - Deforestation - Community rights - Tasmania Wilderness Society secures urgent injunction against Tas govt's suspected illegal logging The injunction has halted logging in forests at Mt Tongatabu near Surges Bay in the south of the sta...
Media Releases - 29 November 2022 - Community rights - Channel Country - Queensland Breaking promises? New fossil fuel exploration approved on globally significant floodplains New fossil fuel exploration has been approved in an environmentally sensitive floodplain, despite re...
Media Releases - 29 November 2022 - Community rights - Tasmania Forests - Tasmania Urgent court action with local community to test lawfulness of logging on Mt Tongatabu Wilderness Society (Tasmania) is seeking urgent disclosure of documents to help determine legality o...
Media Releases - 24 November 2022 - Community rights - Australia wide Australians don’t have a meaningful say on the environment, report reveals A new report, released today, reveals that environmental and planning laws do not give communities a...
Media Releases - 16 November 2022 - Logging - Biodiversity - Tasmania Forests - Tasmania It’s A Win: Tasmanian Government Logging Corp Concedes At 11th Hour But Swift Waylitja* Still Losing To Logging—That Could Be Unlawful Rather than defending itself in the Supreme Court, Tasmanian Government-owned forest logging agency,...
Media Releases - 14 November 2022 - Logging - Victoria Forests - Victoria State government loggers VicForests again found to be providing illegally logged wood to sawmills and packaging manufacturers The Wilderness Society provides the following statement following the Victorian Supreme Court orders...
Media Releases - 14 November 2022 - Logging - Tasmania Forests - Tasmania Wilderness Society takes urgent legal action to protect Tasmania’s forests and swift parrots The Wilderness Society has lodged an urgent application for pre-action discovery with the Tasmanian ...