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
I want ambitious goals for “nature” because life and nature are synonymous. There is no separation between myself, my world, and “nature”. I want to live, and I want my world to be as vibrant and amazing as possible. The only way to move toward that goal – indeed for the majority of ecosystems and species to survive let alone thrive – is to have ambitious goals for what is being called “nature”.
I don’t want to be showing pictures of extinct wildlife to my grandchildren. Because our much loved wildlife become extinct due to our apathy or lack of interest.
I want ambitious global goals for nature throughout the world because it is of paramount importance
I want to see Australia step up and be counted as proactive in the fight against damaging climate change by enacting plans to reduce our contribution to climate change. I want to see more progress in changing to sustainable sources of energy, with training and support for workers in the industry. I want to see the cessation of all new fossil fuel industries and more development of renewable energy technologies. Stop making excuses and start listening and responding to the scientist’s warnings about climate change.
Australian wildlife is so precious & we need to care for our species now for a healthier planet in the future.
Our country is so unique & diverse, without our animals we would have a very lonely desolate landscape.
we are nothing without a healthy bio-diverse environment.
In this world of change, there is one constant – nature is always present in our lives, we are from it – We are all about it. Only by recognising our role in the future of saving earth from climate didasters and man made problems like pollution and bioconcentration of elements poisonous to living things can we survive and thrive in the future to come.
We need a thriving habitat to support plant and animal species’ survival and health
We are destroying our only home
We first want to survive. Second- we want other species to survive and prosper too.
Please attend the COP15 in Montreal in December and advocate for the protection of our natural world
We can save our native animals and plants and make a better world to live in and slow climate change.
I want ambitious global goals to protect and enhance the natural environment, because human life depends on it.
Never has our species been so populous, and never has wildlife been under such threats as posed by our increasing numbers.
We are uniquely placed to defend nature and wildlife- and it is our responsibility to do so.
Sincerely, Adam.J
I want, our country, our world needs, ambitious, clear and well communicated global goals for nature because our health, the health of our environment, depends on it for straight survival.
Species should have to be extinct due to humans destroying their habitat for greed.