The Wilderness Society in Hobart, Tasmania | Environmental conservation organisation

The Wilderness Society

Locality: Hobart, Tasmania

Phone: +61 3 6224 1550

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24.01.2022 "Just to see everybody come together from surfers to all kinds of people, coming to this fight to save the ocean and to save all the marine life - I had tears in my eyes"Bunna Lawrie, Mirning Senior Elder & Songman The Mirning People were a driving force behind the Fight For The Bight Alliance. Tens of thousands of people protested against Norwegian oil giant Equinor's drilling plans in Australia and hundreds in Oslo. It is thanks to tremendous demonstrations of opposition l...ike this that on 25 February Equinor withdrew its plans to drill in the Great Australian Bight. Read more wilderness.org.au/GreatAustralianBight Happy #NAIDOCWeek2020

24.01.2022 The Bramble Cay melomys is the first official mammal extinction due to climate change. So every February 18, First Dog On The Moon pays tribute to this small furry life. https://bit.ly/3rX4oRI

23.01.2022 Australia's platypus is weird, wonderful and mysterious. And now scientists say they should be officially listed as nationally threatened! New research has shown the amount of platypus habitat in Australia has declined by 22.6% since 1990. In just 30 years this unique species has disappeared from an area almost three times the size of Tasmania! It’s staggering that an animal so central to our national identity isn’t adequately protected. We need stronger national environment ...laws to protect all the wildlife and nature we love. wilderness.org.au/nature-laws Thank you Hobart Rivulet Platypus for this amazing footage.

22.01.2022 The Great Southern Reef is one of the world's best kept secrets. Watch Wilderness Society's Peter Owen share his experience discovering this incredible ecosystem. The reef is just one part of the Great Australian Bight, an area so unique that 85% of species there can be found nowhere else in the world. It’s time to Protect The Bight For Good.... Video: Great Southern Reef

22.01.2022 Join us as we talk LIVE with Gemma Plesman, who lost her family home in Nymboida in the NSW bushfires. A year on, we will see how her community & the surrounding bush is recovering. Together, we can make sure that Australia is better prepared to protect & restore nature as we face the risk of greater natural disasters in the future. Join us as we map out the next steps in protecting the places we love.

22.01.2022 Tomorrow is Bramble Cay Melomys Remembrance Day. It wasn't just climate change that drove the melomys to oblivionit was the inaction of our government to fund the recovery plan that was already in place to save it. It's too late to save the Bramble Cay melomys. But there's still time to save other threatened species who are following our little brown rat down the path to extinction. The Samuel Review, released in late January, identified the urgent reforms needed to reverse ...Australia’s appalling track record of protecting biodiversity. We’re working to get new nature laws in place and with your help, we can stop the next Australian animal going the way of the Bramble Cay melomys. wilderness.org.au/our-little-brown-rat

18.01.2022 "It's hard to talk about forests and not talk about magic. So, when I had the opportunity in October to meet a 5.4 metre wide, 400-year-old stringy bark in Tasmania’s Florentine Valley, I took it."Lily Read more about Lily's walk around this forest https://www.wilderness.org.au/home_tree_walk Have you ever met a 5.4 metre wide tree? This giant is Home Tree in Tasmania's Florentine Valley. It is one of six giant trees in coupe TN5D that are due to be logged this summer by Sustainable Timber Tasmania.

17.01.2022 Water is the new gold. We can't let the Kimberley's mighty Fitzroy River suffer the same fate as the Murray Darling Basin. The WA government is seeking to allocate water from the national heritage listed Matruwarra or Fitzroy River for irrigated agriculture. Gina Rinehart and the Harris Family (who have been fined for stealing water from the Murray Darling River system) own pastoral stations along the Fitzroy River and have plans for massive irrigated agriculture proposals af...oot. The WA government released a draft paper this week for public comment on this plan. The Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council - a group representing every First Nations group with connections to the cultural flows of the river - want to slow down the process and seek further research and a management plan to be created before any water is allocated. Listen in to the chair of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River council - Dr Anne Poelina - has to say about the need to protect this precious river. #NAIDOCWeek2020

16.01.2022 BREAKING: The Morrison Government has given the OK to the controversial Narrabri gas project in the precious Pilliga forest. But the fight is not over! Santos must secure pipeline approvals, financial backers, and meet onerous conditions. But Santos’ biggest challenge lies with determined locals who are fighting on to protect their land, water and community.

16.01.2022 The WA Climate policy announced yesterday was a missed opportunity to set binding emissions targets, to ensure WA reaches the aspiration of zero emissions by 2050. The policy failed to send a strong signal to oil and gas corporations, that they need to reduce their emissions and transition their business models if we are to secure a safe climate for future generations. The silver lining was the announcement of a $15 million program focused on carbon farming and a land restoration, which seeks to produce co-benefits of environmental and social outcomes.

15.01.2022 Today we stop to remember the Bramble Cay melomys. The little brown rat was the first Australian animaland first mammal in the world to go extinct due to climate change. It should have lived. It wasn't just climate change that drove the melomys to oblivionit was the inaction of our government to fund the recovery plan that was already in place to save it.... It's because of the melomys and other animals like it well down the path to extinction that we’re working to get new nature laws to replace our broken system. Wilderness Society’s Tim Beshara said it best: ‘The Bramble Cay melomys was a little brown rat, but it was our little brown rat and it was our responsibility to make sure it persisted. And we failed.’ wilderness.org.au/our-little-brown-rat

15.01.2022 Yesterday we appeared in front of the Senate Committee into the Morrison Government’s dodgy changes to our national environment law, the EPBC Act. "I was really proud to represent all our members in front of the Committee," says our Environment Laws Campaigner, Suzanne Milthorpe. "I was there to deliver a clear message on your behalf: post the fires, we can’t go back to business as usual. Now, more than ever, governments need to listen to communities and reform our national ...nature laws so they work to end extinction and protect our globally iconic places." Last week, more than 4,400 people like you put in a submission to the Senate inquiry in just 48 hours! The Senate needed to see a massive swell of submissions opposing this bill and calling for a meaningful response to the independent review of our environment laws to end our extinction crisis and protect globally important places like Ningaloo and the Great Barrier Reef. And, boy, did they! By feeding into the inquiry in your thousands, you let the Senate know that Australians want real safeguards for natureincluding an independent regulator and strong national environment standards. Thank you!

13.01.2022 Thank you to all our supporters who made submissions opposing this bill. Your voice really made a difference here. Together, we showed the Senate that Australians want real safeguards for natureincluding an independent regulator and strong national environment standards. Now the Federal Government should retract this bill & release the final report from the Samuel Review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act.... A full package of reforms informed by science & communities is needed to better protect the places we love & tackle the growing extinction crisis.

12.01.2022 Australia has been facing the loss of its natural places for a very long time. Last summer’s bushfires should act as a big wake up call. WATCH Wild Australia: After The Fires TONIGHT 8.30PM AEST Australia has the opportunity to no longer be the extinction nation. ... We can work not just towards bushfire recovery, but environmental health, so that we can lessen the shocks of this kind of event happening again.

08.01.2022 A rare rejection by the Environment Minister will save close to 2,000 hectares of old growth forest and bushland on Cape York, Queensland! Old-growth and important forest, like that on Kingvale Station, should simply be protected for good. It should never have been considered for bulldozing. Queensland and Australia are in the midst of a deforestation crisis and the Federal Government, for many years, sat on its hands and watched.... We hope this signals a new era of commonwealth ministers treating deforestation seriously. Deforestation clearly has significant impacts and should be better regulated across the country under the EPBC Act.

07.01.2022 "As we know, protecting forests is climate action. This is 8,700 hectares of forest that currently acts as a bulwark against climate change and a safe harbour for threatened species and our dwindling biodiversity," says Wilderness Society WA campaign manager Patrick Gardner. The community is protesting a proposal to raze 8,700 ha of WA's Northern Jarrah Forest for bauxite mining. Destroying these forests will place immeasurable pressure on our dwindling native forests, Black Cockatoo populations and the internationally-recognised Peel-Yalgorup wetlands. This proposed destruction occurs under the veil of a State Agreement that was developed when we were sending men to the moon!

06.01.2022 Santos’s dirty gas project threatens the living culture of the Gomeroi People

05.01.2022 Based on this koala-ty scale, how do you feel today?

05.01.2022 Greater glider news flash on this Floof Friday! Scientists from The Australian National University, James Cook University, the University of Canberra and CSIRO recently discovered that greater gliders are in fact three separate species! Read more http://wilderness.org.au/greater_glider_species The discovery now adds two new marsupials to the national species list, with Petauroides minor and Petauroides armillatus joining the original Petauroides volans.... The discovery of the new species means there is a race on to preserve their remaining habitat to better understand the prevalence and behaviour of these new animals. After the bushfires of 2019-2020 it's paramount that we preserve what habitat remains for these unique Aussie icons. Image: Doug Gimesy

05.01.2022 Before Rosario Dawson appeared on The Mandalorian Disney+ as #AhsokaTano she had previous experience standing up for strange creatures and being part of the force for good with The Wilderness Society =()= wilderness.org.au/save_ugly #themandalorian #mandomondays #StarWars... Cast: Rosario Dawson as Ethmia Clytodoxa Moth Cate Blanchett as Mary River Turtle Joel Edgerton as Ghost Shark Teresa Palmer as Southern Right Whale Claudia O'Doherty as Phytoplankton Erik Thompson as South-Eastern Long-Eared Bat Samara Weaving as Ghost Bat 1 Sara Wiseman as Ghost Bat 2 Dan Wyllie as Giant Gippsland Earthworm

03.01.2022 What a view Seen in the Cathedral Range State Park, the ranges date back 400 to 350 million years! Back then, the state of Victoria was underwater and the land was still being formed. And now, their past can be seen within the rocks themselves. The youngest rocks in the range, the Cathedral Bed, has ripples carved in. This means that at one time, the area was shallow marine or partly non-marineprobably when the sea level was receding! Image: @danmorganfoto via @wilderness_...aus on Instagram Every #WildernessWednesday we feature a spectacular place. Comment below to suggest where we should feature next!

02.01.2022 Welcome to Rowley Shoals Islands off of Western Australia’s Kimberley coast. Sitting on the edge of the continental shelf, this marine park is home to 233 coral species! Photographer Rosie spotted this porcupine rayit’s covered with sharp thorns and plate-like tentacleswhile she was exploring. Image: @rosie.leaney via @Wilderness_aus on Instagram... Every #WildernessWednesday we feature a spectacular place. Comment below to suggest where we should feature next!