A once in a generation opportunity.
It’s time for nature laws that really work.
Right now, across Australia, major and iconic ecosystems are collapsing.
It’s clear our current environment laws are weak, broken and full of holes – but right now, we have real opportunity to fix them.
It’s time for environment laws that actually protect the environment.
We believe good laws, properly used, are key to halting the destruction, reversing the decline, and bringing nature back.
Overhauling the nation’s environment laws only happens once in a generation – so it’s crucial we get these right.
Without bold reforms, iconic animals such as koalas, Gouldian finches, greater gliders, and Leadbeater’s possums will continue to lose vital habitat to bulldozers and be at greater risk of extinction.
Add your name to the petition and call on the Albanese Government and Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to remove loopholes and flaws in their draft of Australia’s new environment protection framework – and make rigorous new laws that halt the destruction, reverse the decline, and bring nature back.
Will you call for effective, fair and robust environment laws?
Dear Minister Plibersek and Prime Minister Albanese,
Thank you for committing to ending extinction, promising genuine climate action and for agreeing to reform Australia’s environment laws.
So our new laws actually protect nature, halt the destruction, reverse the decline and bring nature back – we call on you to make Australia’s new environment laws:
- End lawless logging and land clearing – to end deforestation by 2030, native forest logging and broadscale land clearing cannot be above the law.
- Protect habitat and reverse the decline – to truly protect habitat critical for the survival of threatened wildlife, and make sure nothing can push threatened plants and animals closer to extinction.
- Put climate damage front and centre – to assess and reject projects with unacceptable climate risks, respond to escalating climate impacts and protect ecosystems that absorb carbon.
- End political interference, unchecked discretion or god-like powers – to base all decision making on science and clear rules. No loopholes. No special deals.
- Prevent payments for destruction – because no-one should be able to buy the right to kill threatened species or bulldoze their habitat.
