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Wilderness Society
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Since 1976, the Wilderness Society has been powered by tens of thousands of Australians. Together we protect, sustain and restore nature.
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Ready to hop into the new year more organised than ever?

We still have some of our 2026 calendars left, featuring stunning nature photographs from across Australia, like this yellow-footed rock wallaby at Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary.

👉 Order today: wilderness.org.au/2026-calendar #wildoz
Yellow-footed rock wallaby with orange, grey, white and black colouring and a long striped tail, sits perched on a rock, looking alert towards the camera. Background is blurred green brown, likely trees behind.
January 6, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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In the newest edition of Wilderness Journal, we visit Judy and Geoff Lambert, who share stories from a life of environmental activism. Plus we unearth an unpublished book by Edith Jean Walker & tell the story of the world's tallest Christmas tree.

📖 Read it today: www.wilderness.org.au/journal-42
Wilderness Journal #042
Wilderness Journal #042
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January 6, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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What a great photo @sandyhorne.bsky.social! We'd love to share this one on our socials and credit you, is that okay?
January 6, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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The Wilderness Society is working alongside the Yerkala Mirning to secure World Heritage recognition for the stunning #Nullarbor and #GreatAustralianBight.

If you haven't already, you can add your name to the call to protect the Nullarbor & Bight: wilderness.org.au/bight-nullarbor

#conservation
January 5, 2026 at 2:50 AM
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A Mithaka cultural landscape in the Channel Country is now on the National Heritage List, recognising thousands of years of living culture. Home to endemic species and some of the last free-flowing desert rivers on Earth, this Country has long been protected by Mithaka Traditional Owners.
‘Remarkable’ Mithaka cultural landscape featuring Australia’s oldest houses placed on national heritage list
Aboriginal site featuring ancient quarry sits on transcontinental trading route connecting Gulf of Carpentaria to Flinde
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December 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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This region is geologically unstable, high-risk for drilling and home to 42 threatened species, including southern right & blue whales. Communities have fought for years to keep gas out. We won’t let this go unopposed.

👉 Email PM Albanese today to stop this disaster:
#oilandgas #fossilfuels
Speak out against Albanese’s mindless new gas frontier
New gas is a climate disaster. New gas next to Lutruwita / Tasmania’s World heritage coastline is a double disaster. Email the PM today
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December 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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🚨 Yesterday the Albanese government opened a huge new area of Victoria and Lutruwita / Tasmania’s oceans to seismic blasting & gas drilling—right next to World Heritage coastline. 🔥 New gas is a climate disaster. Next to World Heritage coastline it’s a double disaster.
#oilandgas #auspol #climate
Image has NEWS and headline that reads 'Albanese government sacrifices new oceans for fossil fuel exploration' with the Wilderness Society logo below. There is a map above, showing large areas in red in the oceans between Victoria and Tasmania, depicting the areas release for oil and gas exploration. In the background is an image of the 12 Apostles with ocean and sunset shown.
December 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Donate today to give our legal case, and the swift parrots who depend on it, a fighting chance:

🦜 www.wilderness.org.au/tas-defend-swifties

#swiftparrot #tasmania #wildoz
Save the Swift Parrot!
You can help change that. Help us fight.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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We’re going to court over plans to log native forest in the Huon Valley in Lutruwita / #Tasmania, one of the last remaining breeding strongholds for critically endangered swift parrots. Hear more about the case from Tasmanian Campaigns Manager, Alice Hardinge. #swiftparrot #wildoz
December 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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The legendary Franklin River, #Lutruwita / #Tasmania, where the movement to stop a destructive dam brought thousands together. Peaceful protest won & the Wilderness Society was born.

🗓️ This image features in our 2026 calendar—every one sold helps protect nature: www.wilderness.org.au/calendar-2026
December 2, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Join us as we travel the Franklin with the new generation of Wilderness Society campaigners, explorers and activists in our latest 50th Anniversary special Wilderness Journal. Wild then, wild now, wild forever. #tasmania #franklinriver #wildoz

📖 Read it here: www.wilderness.org.au/journal-41
Wilderness Journal #041
Wilderness Journal #041
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December 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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What beautiful flowers! We especially love the Ptilotus manglesii photo 😍
December 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Propped up by taxpayer subsidies and with a long record of logging breaches, Forestry Corp of NSW cannot be trusted to "manage" native forests or protect threatened wildlife. #wildoz

📣 Tell the NSW Premier you want all of #NSW special forests protected & an end to industrial native forest logging:
I just took action to protect forests from logging, you in?
Every day, 100+ footy fields of forest are destroyed. Let’s put an end to the destruction.
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November 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Forestry Corporation of NSW is failing NSW's native forests, and threatened species like greater gliders are paying the price. 🚨 New analysis shows huge discrepancies between the agency's glider habitat surveys and those done by citizen scientists before logging begins. #nswpol #wildoz
'Absolute madness': Environment groups decry glider survey results
New data points to the "systemic" under-reporting of greater glider dens within areas earmarked for logging in NSW, which scientists say could result in localised extinctions.
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November 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Save 20% on our 2026 calendar this Green Friday! 🗓️ Celebrate people power and beautiful Australian nature with our special 50th anniversary edition. 💚

🌏 Every calendar sold helps protect Australia’s wild places for generations to come: wilderness.org.au/gf-sale

#wildoz #australia #conservation
November 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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📢 After decades of pressure to fix Australia’s ailing nature laws, the Albanese government has struck a deal with the Greens to amend them.

The reforms will increase scrutiny of logging & land clearing—and finally remove key #deforestation loopholes. #auspol

👉 www.wilderness.org.au/nature-law-news
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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#Forests of any age are vital for wildlife and #climate, but they’re not interchangeable.

Destroying a mature, carbon-dense forest can’t be offset by vegetation thickening elsewhere, and releases up to 120× more emissions per hectare than newer forests can absorb. 🌳🌏
Researchers say real impact of deforestation being hidden in Australia’s official figures by ‘sleight of hand’
Report commissioned by conservationists suggests some recorded new growth is misclassified or otherwise not equivalent t
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November 24, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Just 40 minutes from Nipaluna/Hobart, you'll find the spectacular #forests of the Huon Valley. 🌳🍃These forests store immense amounts of carbon & support some of Australia’s most iconic species. But they're under threat.

👉 More: wilderness.org.au/iconic-places/tasmanias-forests #tasmania #wildoz
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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#BREAKING: We are going to court over plans to log native forest in the Huon Valley in Lutruwita / #Tasmania, one of the last remaining breeding strongholds for critically endangered swift parrots.

👉 Learn more: www.wilderness.org.au/swift-parrot-legal-case

#swiftparrot #wildoz #forests
November 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Incredible photos! Look at that joey 🫶
November 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Beautiful photo! 😍
November 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Long-awaited changes to Australia’s nature laws have been introduced to Parliament today—instead of strengthening protections, they would weaken them.

👉 Read the Wilderness Society’s response here: wilderness.org.au/news-events/...

#auspol #naturelaws #environment #wildoz
October 30, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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It’s #InternationalSawfishDay. Celebrate this remarkable species!

The Martuwarra / Fitzroy River is recognised as the world's last stronghold for the freshwater sawfish. It’s also a very important nursery, serving as a sanctuary for juveniles.

👉 Discover more wilderness.org.au/sawfishday
October 17, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Our efforts don’t end here. We will keep holding the government to account where it treats the environment with shameful neglect.

But this success paves the way for future action—to protect threatened species, cultural heritage and large intact functioning ecosystems. #wildoz #auspol

👉 Learn more:
Wilderness Society | Protecting nature and wildlife
Securing better laws and oversight for the ecosystems that sustain us, and real protections for Australia's unique species and habitats.
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September 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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We have successfully settled our court case with the Environment Minister—and he has admitted he failed to do his job to protect threatened species! 🙌

This is an incredible win for threatened species. Hear our campaigner Sam Szoke-Burke give an update on what this means for wildlife. #wildoz
September 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM