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
It need ambitious goals and real action to reverse the ongoing negative impacts on nature and therefore on the whole human race.
I want the earth to survive for my grandchildren and great-grandchildren
The natural environment has to be preserved. All biodiversity is part of one system including gliders and humans. We humans have no right to destroy the habitat of other species, and ultimately we destroy our own planet.
Australia lacks initiative to fix past generations mistakes. Our leaders need to step up and take action.
We need ambitious goals and repercussions for not achieving the goals we set, to achieve the results we need, to try and repair the damage humans have done to nature
I want ambitious global goals for nature because I have been ashamed of the current rate of species extinction in Australia and the global decline in habits and ecosystems. Humanity can be the solution to the issues we have caused.
I want global goals for our land as we need to protect our wildlife, our flora and fauna and the respect the land we walk on. We need to stop allowing land clearing as it’s destructive to the wildlife and plant life which we need in order to remain in balance.
There is no future without nature. There is no planet B as much as we would like to glorify that idea. Earth is a scientific marvel billions of years in the making, and to let us unravel that and wreak havoc on it’s flora and fauna in only a few hundred years would be a disservice to the planet that brings us life and has been our only sure home in this universe. The effects of climate change has already produced noticeable differences in my life time, and I am only 21 this year. Increasing “natural” disaster incidence rates, rapidly reducing insect populations, mass species extinctions, record breaking temperature increases. If effective, immediate change is not employed now, what will the earth be like in another 20 years? Would there even be a point to life without nature? Have we forgotten how essential nature is to our well-being both physically and mentally? Nature is not just important, but critical to our own survival. If we cannot be motivated to protect this earth as the only apparent intelligent lifeforms on it, at least we can spare it in our want for longevity as a species.
Please be leaders in implementing ambitious global goals for nature to put a halt and reverse destruction of biodiversity. This will lead to achievement to a Nature Positive world by 2030 at COP15.
I want ambitious goals for Aus. nature because WE DEPEND ON the WILD OZ which has GIVEN US so much to enable us to reach this point with a quintessential character we need to support us INTO THE FUTURE!