We're using the law to protect nature and regenerate ecosystems that are vital for life.
We do this because the biodiversity on this continent is like nowhere else on Earth.
Neon beetles and curious marsupials. Birdsong echoing through ancient rainforests. Wetlands croaking with the gutbucket concerts of frogs.
Yet right across Australia, a startling number of vital ecosystems are in peril.

Our focus

Australia has one of the worst extinction records on the planet.
Our ecosystems are so complex and delicately interconnected. They shape not just the lives of frogs and beetles — but our climate, soil, food, air, water, livelihoods, health and happiness.
Under pressure from a rapidly warming climate, land-clearing, over-extraction and deforestation, entire ecosystems are collapsing before our eyes.
What we do
Defend nature from destruction
On behalf of community groups, we run public interest court cases and strategic legal interventions to stop the destruction of the places and wildlife we love.
Support communities to use the law
We work tirelessly because we believe community power, backed with legal support, can hold governments and corporations to account for their actions and secure environmental justice.
Push for environment laws that work
We advocate for good laws and forward-thinking policies that regenerate our ecosystems, curb extinction and guide industry so we can all live in balance with the natural world, for the long term.
Our impact

Protecting Murray floodplains in court
We’ve just filed a new case in the Federal Court on behalf of a community action group challenging a major artificial engineering project in a fragile floodplain in northwest Victoria.
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The possums case
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Court case for threatened wildlife
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Latest updates

The zombie logging permit case
June 17, 2025Read More

Bulldozers, Breaches and a Broken System
May 31, 2025Read More

Victorian Law Week: join our webinar
May 1, 2025Read More

Claravale land clearing crisis: a call for federal action
April 28, 2025Read More

First legal test of Murray-Darling floodplain projects heads to court
April 8, 2025Read More

New NT laws sideline communities and the environment
March 26, 2025Read More
Other impact areas
