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
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Our planet is in peril, climate change, land clearing, wars over natural resources, we are at a critical juncture and its the responsibility of our leaders in this country to harness this opportunity to protect nature resources for future generations
We need nature or we will not survive. Yet that is not the most compelling reason to stop extinction and protect old growth forests. They are magnificent in their natural world, and we are just the alpha predators which kill and destroy by taking whatever we want, just because we want it. This has to change, or Australia will become a desert.
Ecocide is a result of unchecked human exploitation. We must change the trajectory.
Save our Australian Wildlife!
I want the flora and fauna of Australia to survive. I’m not fussed about the humans. But let nature thrive.
If humans go, then I propose the possums Quockas and Cockatoos as supreme rulers of Australia and its territories!
Honestly I’ve become more pessimistic the older I’ve gotten, I want to have hope that things will change before it’s to late but… “Money” always seems to win, the people who have the power to change our current trajectory seem to value political power and wealth over anything else… while this is the case I feel disheartened that any meaningful change will happen anytime soon.
The whole topic I find is usually just a sad and depressing one…
I want a brighter future for the generations to come. I want a future were there aren’t extinction events of species due to human actions and a cleaner environment for everyone and everything sharing this planet with us.
It is imperative that we protect what is left of our forests and wildlife habitat for the future of the few remaining wildlife species that are still with us!!
I do not think humans in general have a healthy or respectful relationship with animals, and we need to work on that
We need ambitious global goals for nature because the natural world sustains us ( to be totally selfish ) and because the world would be so much poorer without so many of these wonderful plants and animals.
We need strong laws to protect nature. Many of Australia’s plants and animals are threatened now, and we must not allow any more of their habitat to be degraded and destroyed.
I miss the beautiful Christmas beetle so much in awe of as a boy. We must save our treasured and unique species.
If we cannot save nature we will not save ourselves
We must protect what we have left before it’s too late.
I have seen exactly fpur Christmas beetles in my life. I live hinterland.
Id like the next generation to at least see one.
I want goals to be put in place because insects are a big part to the ecosystem. We have to take action.