STRENGTHEN OUR NATURE LAWS TO PROTECT AUSSIE WILDLIFE
By adding your voice, you’ll be sending a message to your local member of parliament and the Minister for the Environment and Water of Australia, calling on them to strengthen weak nature laws.
Nature law reforms are being introduced into parliament now – this is your chance to make them stronger.
The Government has made fixing nature laws a priority and wants the legislation passed before the end of the year. We have a critical window to ensure that strong protections for nature are at the heart of the Government’s reform. Australia’s nature laws still allow too much clearing of our trees and forests. This harms wildlife by destroying habitat, sending more pollution into our air and water, and even puts places like the Great Barrier Reef at greater risk. We need stronger and clearer rules that stop the damage.
Contact your MP now to make sure the laws being drafted include stronger protections for wildlife, native forests and iconic environments like the Great Barrier Reef. We urgently need your help. Join us in calling for stronger nature laws to protect our precious wildlife and the places they call home.
Deforestation is harming wildlife, polluting our Reef, and fueling climate change—and outdated nature laws are letting it happen.
Our nature laws are meant to protect native wildlife and their habitats, but outdated loopholes allow destructive tree clearing to continue, even in areas critical to endangered species. This deforestation doesn’t just threaten iconic wildlife like greater gliders, koalas and glossy black cockatoos—it also pollutes our waterways and weakens marine ecosystems, including the iconic and globally-significant Great Barrier Reef. It's time to close the loopholes to protect our wild places and wildlife with strong national rules.
We’re calling on the Government to urgently reform Australia’s nature laws to:
- Provide stronger upfront protections for nature.
- Close deforestation loopholes.
- Establish an independent environmental regulator.
- Safeguard nature against climate change.
Protecting nature is protecting our future. It's time to end deforestation and nature a fighting chance.
Nature law reforms are being introduced into parliament now – this is your chance to make them stronger.
The Government has made fixing nature laws a priority and wants the legislation passed before the end of the year. We have a critical window to ensure that strong protections for nature are at the heart of the Government’s reform. Australia’s nature laws still allow too much clearing of our trees and forests. This harms wildlife by destroying habitat, sending more pollution into our air and water, and even puts places like the Great Barrier Reef at greater risk. We need stronger and clearer rules that stop the damage.
Contact your MP now to make sure the laws being drafted include stronger protections for wildlife, native forests and iconic environments like the Great Barrier Reef. We urgently need your help. Join us in calling for stronger nature laws to protect our precious wildlife and the places they call home.
Deforestation is harming wildlife, polluting our Reef, and fueling climate change—and outdated nature laws are letting it happen.
Our nature laws are meant to protect native wildlife and their habitats, but outdated loopholes allow destructive tree clearing to continue, even in areas critical to endangered species. This deforestation doesn’t just threaten iconic wildlife like greater gliders, koalas and glossy black cockatoos—it also pollutes our waterways and weakens marine ecosystems, including the iconic and globally-significant Great Barrier Reef. It's time to close the loopholes to protect our wild places and wildlife with strong national rules.
We’re calling on the Government to urgently reform Australia’s nature laws to:
- Provide stronger upfront protections for nature.
- Close deforestation loopholes.
- Establish an independent environmental regulator.
- Safeguard nature against climate change.
Protecting nature is protecting our future. It's time to end deforestation and nature a fighting chance.
Learn more about Australia's Nature Laws
Deforestation is harming the Great Barrier Reef
Forests in Reef catchments are nature’s guardians. They hold soil in place, slow down water, and help keep the Reef’s waters clean. But when these forests are cleared, mud and pollution rush downstream—smothering coral, choking seagrass, and threatening the marine life that call the Great Barrier Reef home. Deforestation in areas that drain into the Reef is putting one of the world’s most precious ecosystems at risk. We’re calling on the Government to introduce strong Nature Laws that stop deforestation near the Reef and enforce high standards to keep our waters clean. Because protecting forests means protecting the Reef—and everything that depends on it.
We urgently need stronger nature laws
Australia’s nature laws are better known as the Environment Protection and Biodiversity and Conservation (EPBC) Act 1999.
Its purpose is to protect and conserve our environment and nature, including threatened wildlife. However, deforestation loopholes allow habitat destruction to continue, and the list of threatened native animals and plants continues to increase. Even international icons like the Great Barrier Reef are gradually being destroyed due to harmful runoff from deforestation, polluting once-pristine waters.
Threats such as habitat destruction and deforestation, global heating, inappropriate fire management and introduced predators are putting pressure on our wildlife. But our weak nature laws don’t extend far enough to address these issues.
We need stronger nature laws to protect wildlife and the ecosystems they depend on.
We must protect nature to protect our future.
Q&A: Reforming Australia's Nature Laws - Explained
Australia’s nature laws are falling short. From deforestation loopholes to habitat destruction, our current laws are failing iconic species like the greater glider, and further damaging the Great Barrier Reef.
This blog breaks down 10 key questions to help you understand what’s going wrong, why it matters, and what needs to change to protect nature and secure a better future.
