Australia’s plants and animals are under threat. Our combined voices can protect them.
We have one of the worst records on extinction in the world. 56 more Australian species have just been added to the international red list of threatened species –bringing the total to 1,830 Australian species in danger!
The nature crisis is global. Habitat destruction is threatening Tasmanian Devils and Sumatran tigers alike with extinction. The Great Barrier Reef is collapsing, so is the Amazon.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek can make Australia a global leader for nature – but they have to show up.
This means attending the 15th conference to the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) in Montreal in December, and advocating for strong global nature goals that unite and hold governments and business accountable worldwide to protect and restore the natural world that sustains us.
Sign the petition calling on the federal government to:
Lead on ambitious global goals for nature to halt and reverse biodiversity destruction and achieve a Nature Positive world by 2030 at COP15.
That means championing clear and measurable goals and targets, backed by domestic commitments to:
- End extinction and recover threatened species
- Restore the ecosystems we’ve already degraded
- Embed the value of nature in all government and business decision-making
- Recognise Indigenous rights and stewardship
- Protect at least 30% of the planet’s land and oceans.
Want to understand more about how global goals for nature will help Australia's own endangered plants and animals? Read our blog from Nathaniel Pelle, ACF's Business and Biodiversity Campaign Lead, then sign the petition and invite friends and family to add their names too!
Header photo: Jean-Paul Ferrero/AUSCAPE
Latest Supporters
We are beyond the brink. Everything possible needs to be done, NOW!
Our native animals need protection. For too many it is too late. Please act now.
Due to human activity, we have less land, leading to fewer homes for the animals. I feel deeply saddened by this. I’m signing this petition in hopes of animals being treated better.
As a mother, teacher and nature lover, I am deeply concerned and disheartened by biodiversity loss and want to support any initiative that could reverse the damage humans are causing.
I want ambitious global goals for nature because this is the only planet that can sustain life and humans need to respect that and treat it as such. We are so lucky to live on this planet and it has everything to sustain all living creatures. However, humans have decimated so much flora and fauna that the natural environment is no longer healthy. We knew all this decades ago and yet we are still taking more than we need. Stop this greedy behaviour and protect what’s left.
Well , we’re interdependent, every single creature that comes from and maintains the planet. Not to mention love, which recognises that.
The Eastern curlew is critically endangered. Habitat destruction is threatening the Eastern curlew in several Australian locations by human developments.
There are around 1,830 Australian species in danger! Please help.
I am sick of governments that say they support protecting the environment then cave to lobby groups who profit from destroying it. They are businesses and if they have to abide by rules put in place to protect the environment in order to make money they will.
We are killing our wildlife and Government doesn’t seem to care
I want abitious goals for nature conservation because they need it and deserve to live. All animals and all birds.
Regeneration of Ecosystems takes the co-operation of all species.
Australia has the most amazing birds in the world, we need to reverse the number of birds that are threatened & endangered before it’d too late.
I am very passionate about saving the vaquitas in Mexico. I am worried that since there is only 8-13 of them left that they would get extinct soon. There is also a very small number of ways to save them, but I think if we ban gillnet and illegal fishing, we can make vaquitas population greater. Gillnet fishing kills many vaquitas, when the net lifts up they capture many varieties of sea creatures (such as the vaquita). I understand that it would be hard to ban gillnet fishing but here are some alternatives. Spearfishing= You use one hook with bait, and you can catch only the fish you want, without accidentally catching other animals. Fish traps= These are like little cages that fish swim into but can’t get out of. Non-fish animals can usually swim away, so it’s a very safe way to fish without catching any other creatures. Trolling= This method uses a boat with hooks and bait trailing behind. It is good because it targets specific fish, and other animals usually don’t get caught. These alternatives could save vaquitas forever!
I want global goals for nature . As much as I love seeing the Cape Lilac tree outside my house in suburban Bunbury filled with red tailed black cockatoos I feel extremely sad to imagine that these birds have to venture this far to forage for food. Coupled with the local shire currently trimming trees for power lines it makes me wonder how they survive . I took a photo the other day of a tree full of red tail black cockatoos with a lone yellow tail black cockatoo. I’ve never seen one of there and do not think they are native to WA . I was very surprised. But at the moment we have flocks of pink cockatoos often resembling a scene from Alfred Hitchcock ‘Birds’ and then the white cockatoos that hang upside down and bounce on the powerline between the main pole and my house . Very much the teenagers in the group. I love these birds along with the magpies and willywagtails that visit but am sad that they must be displaced from their habitat to be here.
Please act now before it is too late.
i love greater gliders and want to help with anything i can
We’ve already lost too much wildlife habitat. we need to start giving back.
Please help reduce the night lights coming from shopping centres suburban areas along coastlines as it’s affecting all the insects right through to the turtles
A few days ago a few black cockatoos started flying around our area – would love for that to continue.
We need to do better.