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 need to ensure the longevity of our native creatures so that our grandchildren and their grandchildren can enjoy the beauty of nature.
Australian Government shame on all of you. Your commitment to our land, animals and plants make us a joke. We need to do so much and we need to do it now
We need a real government to protect all our flora and fauna, not a fake government like we have now!!
Please , let us be considerate of all creatures and their needs – not just Humans – we need to be more compassionate and considerate.
Without the full scope of species we endanger all and do a great disservice.
To lose the beautiful wildlife and flora we have been blessed with would be so tragic.
Biodiversity inevitably will be THE measure of the human impact on our earth. Governments need to recognize this and act in the interests of future generations. Once extinct, always extinct.
Please start to consider the amplitude of effect that our industries are putting on our environment and wild life. I am 64 years old and worked in the Central West of the state in Dept of Ag and learned a little about our flora & fauna along the way. Ive also noticed the terrible changes that have been caused by too much clearing and farming of the ground, the chemicals seeping into the underground water tables that then seep into the creeks and rivers, the droughts and fires that cause death to many of our wildlife and many more noticeable things. Be a strong government, take a stand and make changes to re-establish our land and country to make it healthy again
This issue needs to be urgently addressed NOW.