Wilderness Society in the Media

Wilderness Society in the Media

Media highlights April to June 2023

Check out some of the Wilderness Society's most impactful media mentions from April to June 2023.

AAP - Greenwash claim as miner pledges to stay away from town

AAP - Greenwash claim as miner pledges to stay away from town

In June, mining company Alcoa yesterday announced a large exclusion zone around Dwellingup, WA that would see the region’s ancient jarrah forests and wildlife protected from future mining interests—however the region was not earmarked for mining to begin with and unfortunately the announcement is simply another case of corporate greenwashing. Campaign manager for Wilderness Society WA, Tim Clifford, said "Repackaging inaction as environmental conservation is simply not enough."

Read more
Katherine Times - Opinion: NT land clearing shows why we need new national nature laws

Katherine Times - Opinion: NT land clearing shows why we need new national nature laws

On the same day that the state of Victoria announced native forest logging would end within a year, the Northern Territory government officially rolled out the red carpet to large-scale cotton irrigators and beef producers, to expand land clearing and deforestation across 100,000 hectares. Wilderness Society senior campaigner Jenita Enevoldsen explores why new national environment laws are so critical for NT's tropical savanna's

Read more
Sydney Morning Herald - Minister told that beef producers aren’t a deforestation risk

Sydney Morning Herald - Minister told that beef producers aren’t a deforestation risk

Documents obtained via FOI have revealed the Federal Government significantly downplayed the impact of Australia’s deforestation activities at a crucial global agriculture minister’s conference in Berlin earlier this year. Wilderness Society federal policy director Tim Beshara said “The only way to fix it is to fix it. That is to turn around the decline in nature. Not to try it on with definitional games and spin.”

Read More
The Examiner - Decision looms in battle over Tasmania's wild heart

The Examiner - Decision looms in battle over Tasmania's wild heart

The Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area is the world’s highest-rated World Heritage wilderness, but it is threatened by unwelcome tourism developments.

Read more
ABC - Tasmanian timber industry wants greater access to native forests. Conservationists are resisting that push

ABC - Tasmanian timber industry wants greater access to native forests. Conservationists are resisting that push

Although Victoria has declared an end to native forest logging, the same cannot yet be said for Tasmania. Tom Allen, campaign manager for Wilderness Society Tasmania, says "The rest of the country is transitioning forwards. The industry in Tasmania is basically asking the taxpayer to fund it transitioning backwards and we can't afford to go backwards."

Read more
The Guardian - End of native logging in Victoria ‘a monumental win for forests’, say conservationists

The Guardian - End of native logging in Victoria ‘a monumental win for forests’, say conservationists

In May, the Victorian government announced an end to native forest logging in 2024. National Campaigns Director for the Wilderness Society, Amelia Young, says “living, breathing, intact forests” are our best safeguard against the climate crisis.

Read more

What you can do