Wilderness Australia
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Australia's longest-running wilderness conservation organisation | Formerly the Colong Foundation for Wilderness | wildernessaustralia.org.au
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September 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Right now, Wilderness Australia supporters have the opportunity to write a Will for FREE. You can do this in as little as 20-minutes using Safewill, a secure online Will-writing platform.
📆Hurry, offer ends 15th September!
📆Hurry, offer ends 15th September!
🐨The Great Koala National Park has been announced at long last!
🌱Let's build on this momentum to end native forest logging state-wide.
💚A huge thank you to everyone who supported and contributed to this campaign!
👇More info below.
🌱Let's build on this momentum to end native forest logging state-wide.
💚A huge thank you to everyone who supported and contributed to this campaign!
👇More info below.
Great Koala National Park Announced!
www.wildernessaustralia.org.au
September 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
🐨The Great Koala National Park has been announced at long last!
🌱Let's build on this momentum to end native forest logging state-wide.
💚A huge thank you to everyone who supported and contributed to this campaign!
👇More info below.
🌱Let's build on this momentum to end native forest logging state-wide.
💚A huge thank you to everyone who supported and contributed to this campaign!
👇More info below.
👇 10 logging myths in the new ABARES report
"Clinging to myths to support ongoing native forest logging only delays that transition and deepens the ecological and economic debt we leave future Australians."
"Clinging to myths to support ongoing native forest logging only delays that transition and deepens the ecological and economic debt we leave future Australians."
Cutting through the spin – Ten logging 'myths' in the new ABARES report
Australia’s native‑forest debate has long been characterised by falsehoods generated by industry and arms of industry such as parts of government.
johnmenadue.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
👇 10 logging myths in the new ABARES report
"Clinging to myths to support ongoing native forest logging only delays that transition and deepens the ecological and economic debt we leave future Australians."
"Clinging to myths to support ongoing native forest logging only delays that transition and deepens the ecological and economic debt we leave future Australians."
👇For those looking to better understand the dangers of burning wood for electricity, particularly in the context of the proposed reopening of the Redbank Power Station (near Singleton NSW).
Burning wood for power Is a dangerous step backward
The NSW Independent Planning Commission is currently considering an application to reopen the Redbank Power Station near Singleton.
johnmenadue.com
August 14, 2025 at 4:18 AM
👇For those looking to better understand the dangers of burning wood for electricity, particularly in the context of the proposed reopening of the Redbank Power Station (near Singleton NSW).
❎Say NO to burning trees for electricity!
Verdant Earth Technologies is proposing to re-open the Redbank Power Station to burn up to 850,000 tonnes of biomass each year from trees cleared under woefully weak land clearing laws.
Help us put a stop to this project by making a submission below!
Verdant Earth Technologies is proposing to re-open the Redbank Power Station to burn up to 850,000 tonnes of biomass each year from trees cleared under woefully weak land clearing laws.
Help us put a stop to this project by making a submission below!
Submission Guide
www.wildernessaustralia.org.au
August 12, 2025 at 6:02 AM
❎Say NO to burning trees for electricity!
Verdant Earth Technologies is proposing to re-open the Redbank Power Station to burn up to 850,000 tonnes of biomass each year from trees cleared under woefully weak land clearing laws.
Help us put a stop to this project by making a submission below!
Verdant Earth Technologies is proposing to re-open the Redbank Power Station to burn up to 850,000 tonnes of biomass each year from trees cleared under woefully weak land clearing laws.
Help us put a stop to this project by making a submission below!
Take a look at our new 6 min video laying out the campaign challenges for the year ahead.
Former NSW Environment Minister speaks on ending native forest logging
YouTube video by Wilderness Australia
www.youtube.com
June 24, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Take a look at our new 6 min video laying out the campaign challenges for the year ahead.
📣CALL TO ACTION | Email NSW Treasurer, Daniel Mookhey, calling for an end to native forest logging in NSW.
🌱From NSW Parliament to our public forests, a series of events have been unfolding which could be the beginning of the end for native forest logging in NSW.
💪Let's keep up the pressure on!
🌱From NSW Parliament to our public forests, a series of events have been unfolding which could be the beginning of the end for native forest logging in NSW.
💪Let's keep up the pressure on!
Take action for NSW forests
www.wildernessaustralia.org.au
May 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
📣CALL TO ACTION | Email NSW Treasurer, Daniel Mookhey, calling for an end to native forest logging in NSW.
🌱From NSW Parliament to our public forests, a series of events have been unfolding which could be the beginning of the end for native forest logging in NSW.
💪Let's keep up the pressure on!
🌱From NSW Parliament to our public forests, a series of events have been unfolding which could be the beginning of the end for native forest logging in NSW.
💪Let's keep up the pressure on!
"...it’s clear that it’s unprecedented for any statutory organisation to have that number of serious offences over matters of environmental importance.”
NSW forestry agency should be shut down for repeatedly breaking law, critics argue
Forestry Corporation says suggestion that it can be compared to a criminal bikie gang is ‘ridiculous’
www.theguardian.com
May 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
"...it’s clear that it’s unprecedented for any statutory organisation to have that number of serious offences over matters of environmental importance.”
🐨Yesterday, key business owners Kevin Doye and Lindy Davis travelled to NSW Parliament to deliver a letter on behalf 110 businesses across the Mid North Coast.
🌱The joint statement calls on the Minns Government to honour their promise and gazette the full 176,000 hectare Great Koala National Park.
🌱The joint statement calls on the Minns Government to honour their promise and gazette the full 176,000 hectare Great Koala National Park.
Mid North Coast businesses call for the full Great Koala National Park
www.wildernessaustralia.org.au
May 9, 2025 at 4:14 AM
🐨Yesterday, key business owners Kevin Doye and Lindy Davis travelled to NSW Parliament to deliver a letter on behalf 110 businesses across the Mid North Coast.
🌱The joint statement calls on the Minns Government to honour their promise and gazette the full 176,000 hectare Great Koala National Park.
🌱The joint statement calls on the Minns Government to honour their promise and gazette the full 176,000 hectare Great Koala National Park.
ICYMI
There are an estimated 36,000 Greater Gliders remaining in the Great Koala National Park assessment area.
This is yet another reason for the Minns Government to stop the delay and declare the full 176,000 hectares of State Forest as part of the Great Koala National Park!
There are an estimated 36,000 Greater Gliders remaining in the Great Koala National Park assessment area.
This is yet another reason for the Minns Government to stop the delay and declare the full 176,000 hectares of State Forest as part of the Great Koala National Park!
Endangered greater gliders recorded in proposed great koala national park in NSW as logging continues
Conservation groups call for immediate action to protect wildlife as two-year wait for Labor’s promised creation of park continues
www.theguardian.com
April 24, 2025 at 5:59 AM
ICYMI
There are an estimated 36,000 Greater Gliders remaining in the Great Koala National Park assessment area.
This is yet another reason for the Minns Government to stop the delay and declare the full 176,000 hectares of State Forest as part of the Great Koala National Park!
There are an estimated 36,000 Greater Gliders remaining in the Great Koala National Park assessment area.
This is yet another reason for the Minns Government to stop the delay and declare the full 176,000 hectares of State Forest as part of the Great Koala National Park!
Free Wills Fortnight extended!
After requests to extend this offer, we are pleased to share that Wilderness Australia supporters are still eligible to write a Will for FREE using Safewill.
📆Hurry, offer ends on 14 April!
After requests to extend this offer, we are pleased to share that Wilderness Australia supporters are still eligible to write a Will for FREE using Safewill.
📆Hurry, offer ends on 14 April!
Wilderness Australia | Your Australian or NZ Will online | Safewill
Modern life, modern Will. Safewill is making Wills simple, secure, and cost-effective, so you can focus on living. Get started online- your Will, your way.
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April 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Free Wills Fortnight extended!
After requests to extend this offer, we are pleased to share that Wilderness Australia supporters are still eligible to write a Will for FREE using Safewill.
📆Hurry, offer ends on 14 April!
After requests to extend this offer, we are pleased to share that Wilderness Australia supporters are still eligible to write a Will for FREE using Safewill.
📆Hurry, offer ends on 14 April!
🚨It's official!
Community groups DO have the right to take Forestry Corporation NSW to court.
This is a big win for our forests.
Community groups DO have the right to take Forestry Corporation NSW to court.
This is a big win for our forests.
High Court verdict provides 'hope amid an escalating extinction crisis'
The South East Forest Rescue group alleged the Forestry Corporation of NSW did not conduct a broad area habitat search for features of habitat for three species of glider in areas of native forest log...
www.abc.net.au
April 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
🚨It's official!
Community groups DO have the right to take Forestry Corporation NSW to court.
This is a big win for our forests.
Community groups DO have the right to take Forestry Corporation NSW to court.
This is a big win for our forests.
The NSW Government won't commit to a date for the announcement of the Great Koala National Park, or an end to its logging.
🚨Our new report highlights that 12,578 ha are on the chopping block if this delay continues.
Enough is enough, we need a Great Koala National Park now!
👇Full report below.
🚨Our new report highlights that 12,578 ha are on the chopping block if this delay continues.
Enough is enough, we need a Great Koala National Park now!
👇Full report below.
The Plan to Keep Logging the Great Koala National Park
www.wildernessaustralia.org.au
March 27, 2025 at 4:05 AM
The NSW Government won't commit to a date for the announcement of the Great Koala National Park, or an end to its logging.
🚨Our new report highlights that 12,578 ha are on the chopping block if this delay continues.
Enough is enough, we need a Great Koala National Park now!
👇Full report below.
🚨Our new report highlights that 12,578 ha are on the chopping block if this delay continues.
Enough is enough, we need a Great Koala National Park now!
👇Full report below.
Join us tonight for an exciting event!
The Forest Alliance NSW is hosting a free forest event where you'll have the chance to hear from experts in the fields of ecology, economics, carbon and more.
📅 19/03/2025
⏰ 5:30 – 7:30 PM
📍 Parliamentary Theatrette, NSW Parliament House, Macquarie St, Sydney
The Forest Alliance NSW is hosting a free forest event where you'll have the chance to hear from experts in the fields of ecology, economics, carbon and more.
📅 19/03/2025
⏰ 5:30 – 7:30 PM
📍 Parliamentary Theatrette, NSW Parliament House, Macquarie St, Sydney
Native Forest Futures
Get Tickets on Humanitix - Native Forest Futures hosted by Forest Alliance of NSW. NSW Parliament Theatrette, 6 Macquarie St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia. Wednesday 19th March 2025. Find event informat...
events.humanitix.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Join us tonight for an exciting event!
The Forest Alliance NSW is hosting a free forest event where you'll have the chance to hear from experts in the fields of ecology, economics, carbon and more.
📅 19/03/2025
⏰ 5:30 – 7:30 PM
📍 Parliamentary Theatrette, NSW Parliament House, Macquarie St, Sydney
The Forest Alliance NSW is hosting a free forest event where you'll have the chance to hear from experts in the fields of ecology, economics, carbon and more.
📅 19/03/2025
⏰ 5:30 – 7:30 PM
📍 Parliamentary Theatrette, NSW Parliament House, Macquarie St, Sydney
📣Free Wills Week is here! This week you have the opportunity to write a Will for FREE using Safewill, a secure online Will-writing platform.
🌱If you choose to remember us in your Will, your bequest will help us continue protecting wilderness areas and natural forest ecosystems into the future.
🌱If you choose to remember us in your Will, your bequest will help us continue protecting wilderness areas and natural forest ecosystems into the future.
Wilderness Australia | Your Australian or NZ Will online | Safewill
Modern life, modern Will. Safewill is making Wills simple, secure, and cost-effective, so you can focus on living. Get started online- your Will, your way.
safewill.com
March 17, 2025 at 5:19 AM
📣Free Wills Week is here! This week you have the opportunity to write a Will for FREE using Safewill, a secure online Will-writing platform.
🌱If you choose to remember us in your Will, your bequest will help us continue protecting wilderness areas and natural forest ecosystems into the future.
🌱If you choose to remember us in your Will, your bequest will help us continue protecting wilderness areas and natural forest ecosystems into the future.
“I find it harder and harder to understand what is delaying the decision,”
“It is simply unreasonable that this should go on any longer, when, after all, there is a standing promise made three times that the larger koala national park will be created.”
- Bob Debus, Wilderness Australia Chair
“It is simply unreasonable that this should go on any longer, when, after all, there is a standing promise made three times that the larger koala national park will be created.”
- Bob Debus, Wilderness Australia Chair
Koala park delay prompts fear Labor has folded to logging industry
After nearly two years in government, state Labor has still not created the koala national park it promised in 2015, prompting criticism from one of its own.
www.smh.com.au
March 4, 2025 at 4:36 AM
“I find it harder and harder to understand what is delaying the decision,”
“It is simply unreasonable that this should go on any longer, when, after all, there is a standing promise made three times that the larger koala national park will be created.”
- Bob Debus, Wilderness Australia Chair
“It is simply unreasonable that this should go on any longer, when, after all, there is a standing promise made three times that the larger koala national park will be created.”
- Bob Debus, Wilderness Australia Chair
Important discoveries made by North East Forest Alliance and South East Forest Rescue 👏
Calls for probe as NSW Forestry Corp revises years of logging data
The corporation is under fire after correcting reports on native forest logging, retrospectively cutting volumes by almost 30 per cent over the past three years.
www.abc.net.au
February 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Important discoveries made by North East Forest Alliance and South East Forest Rescue 👏
The final boundaries of the long-awaited Great Koala National Park are likely to be announced in the next few weeks.
After delays and continued logging of the Park's assessment area, the NSW Government must not undermine the Park’s critical values any further.
🐨All 176,000ha need to be protected!
After delays and continued logging of the Park's assessment area, the NSW Government must not undermine the Park’s critical values any further.
🐨All 176,000ha need to be protected!
Open letter to Premier Minns and the NSW Government
www.wildernessaustralia.org.au
January 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The final boundaries of the long-awaited Great Koala National Park are likely to be announced in the next few weeks.
After delays and continued logging of the Park's assessment area, the NSW Government must not undermine the Park’s critical values any further.
🐨All 176,000ha need to be protected!
After delays and continued logging of the Park's assessment area, the NSW Government must not undermine the Park’s critical values any further.
🐨All 176,000ha need to be protected!
'In response to government inaction, a community effort in ‘tactical science’ has blossomed over the past year in NSW. It is a last-ditch attempt to save an iconic forest species.'
Pearls and Irritations piece written by Andrew Wong, Wilderness Australia. Read the full article below 👇
Pearls and Irritations piece written by Andrew Wong, Wilderness Australia. Read the full article below 👇
Saving the greater glider from extinction, one den tree at a time
Government inaction has prompted conservation groups to apply citizen science and sleepless nights to find greater glider den trees...
johnmenadue.com
December 12, 2024 at 12:11 AM
'In response to government inaction, a community effort in ‘tactical science’ has blossomed over the past year in NSW. It is a last-ditch attempt to save an iconic forest species.'
Pearls and Irritations piece written by Andrew Wong, Wilderness Australia. Read the full article below 👇
Pearls and Irritations piece written by Andrew Wong, Wilderness Australia. Read the full article below 👇