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Life. Support. We work to support the living world that makes all life possible. Australia truly is the lucky country.

Our bush, forests and deserts are amongst the most beautiful on Earth. Our oceans are vast and pristine, and our soil is some of the oldest and most fertile on the planet. The 'Australian lifestyle' is dependent on access to healthy food, clean water, fresh air, and beautiful natural surroundings. While government has a role in protecting wilderness, it's up to all of us to recognise and promote nature in our day-to-day lives. The Wilderness Society is an independent, non-profit organisation working together with people from all walks of life to protect some of our most precious - and most threatened - places from destruction.

30/10/2026

Alcoa gets another free pass.

For those keeping track, that’s three exemptions in three years to continue forest destruction for bauxite mining.

The WA government has also signalled it will sign off on three more years of mining plans in areas the state’s independent environmental watchdog is still assessing.

Under WA’s Environmental Protection Act, a mining proposal such as those put forth by Alcoa cannot be implemented while an assessment by the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) is underway.

The Exemption Order granted yesterday, just like the one given in 2023, allows Alcoa to proceed with their mining activities even though the state’s EPA has yet to report on two of Alcoa’s mining proposals.

Sustained pressure for the WA community has made some impact on the new exemption order, but loopholes you could drive a bulldozer through remain.

30/10/2026

Orcas and whale sharks, painted in watercolour by Connor, our youngest Journal contributor yet! 🐋

"Ningaloo is where our continental shelf is narrowest. That means it’s the piece of Australia closest to the deep ocean. That explains why all these huge oceanic creatures are so close to land."—Tim Winton

In Journal #047, Connor talks with author and conservationist Tim Winton about all the cool things he’s seen in Ningaloo.

Tim Winton won the first Environment Award for Children’s Literature in 1994, and he’s won it again 32 years later with 'Ningaloo: Australia's Wild Wonder', illustrated by Cindy Lane. The book explores the biodiversity and interconnectedness of Ningaloo's ecosystems, from colourful coral reefs to muddy mangroves. Most importantly, it also teaches young readers how to protect and support this special place for years to come.

Read the full conversation between Tim and Connor in the new edition of Wilderness Journal.

Find it at our link in bio or at wilderness.org.au/journal-047

Image 1: Watercolours by Connor McIntosh, Image 2: Tim Winton photographed by Adam Ferguson, Images 4 and 5: Connor photographed by Ryan Burrows.

29/10/2026

The Victorian Carroll government has this week approved restarting the Patricia-Baleen gas fields off the Gippsland coast. It’s scraping the bottom of the barrel: reviving a gas field closed for nearly two decades for a sliver of gas, and Victorians will pay with a more dangerous climate.

This is the second Gippsland gas project approval in a week. Each one locks in more climate pollution well into the 2030s, at a time when the science is clear that we need to be phasing out fossil fuels, not opening new production.

Gippsland’s coast and the waters of the Bass Strait are home to extraordinary marine life, including whales that migrate along this coastline every year. Drilling, pipelines and processing all carry real risks to these wild places and the communities that love them.

Victorians are already living with the climate damage fossil fuels cause: bushfires, floods and heatwaves that hit nature and impact people. More gas means more of that damage.

Victorian Labor has a proud history of nation-leading action on climate change. This decision squanders that legacy.

There should be no new gas. Not in Gippsland, not anywhere.

Authorised by The Wilderness Society Victoria Inc, 1/81-87 King William St, Fitzroy VIC 3065.

28/10/2026

A fluffy pink sea of mulla mulla blooms beneath the sprawling branches and swollen trunks of the boab trees. 🌸

Thank you Emma and Morgan (.downunder) for capturing this beautiful scene in the Kimberley!

The Kimberley’s boab trees are more than 1,500 years old, making them some of the oldest living organisms on the continent. They’re significant markers of identity and place for First Nations people in the Kimberley.

Boab trees are part of the Kimberley’s tropical savanna forest, a place under threat from destruction by mining and fossil fuels companies..

Protecting these forests is vital for the Kimberley’s cultural heritage and biodiversity.

28/10/2026

The gas industry is planning its next move. It wants to build a 1,500km pipeline across the Channel Country that would unlock fracking in the NT’s Beetaloo Basin. ⚠️

The Channel Country is one of the last places on Earth where desert rivers flow free. We’re launching a new campaign to protect the Northern Territory’s ancient springs and the Channel Country’s rivers and floodplains.

The best time to stop an oil or gas project is before it starts. It’s how we together protected the Channel Country’s rivers from new oil and gas expansion in 2024. It’s how we stopped the gas hub at James Price Point and deep sea drilling in the Great Australian Bight.

Backed by our supporters, we’re building pressure on Environment Minister Murray Watt to require a full environmental impact assessment before any work on the pipeline begins. We’re having conversations with Queenslanders and taking our demands to the halls of both federal and state parliament.

Not one metre of this pipeline has been built. United, we can keep it that way. And if we stop the pipeline, then fracking in the Beetaloo Basin becomes untenable.

That’s just the beginning. To take on the gas industry, we need decision-makers to know they can’t ignore what’s at stake.

👉 Add your name to our petition to Murray Watt: www.wilderness.org.au/stop-beetaloo-pipeline

23/10/2026

It’s here: The Great Koala National Park! This is the greatest conservation win for the forests of NSW for decades.

Thank you to everyone who made this win for forests, for koalas, for other wildlife, and for communities possible.

23/10/2026

Seven nights of Tame Impala, hundreds of conversations about nature...

We were thrilled to be part of the REVERB Action Village with Planet Reimagined at Tame Impala’s Brisbane and Melbourne shows over the last couple of weeks.

Over seven nights across both cities, we met hundreds of thoughtful fans and had so many meaningful conversations about protecting Australia’s forests from logging and deforestation, and Australia’s oceans from abandoned oil and gas infrastructure. 🌳🌊

Some fans had known the Wilderness Society since the 90s, while others were learning about our work to protect nature for the first time. It’s no surprise, really: so many Tame Impala fans are nature lovers too. 💚

In Melbourne, we were delighted to share the space with Victorians for Nature, talking about how together, we’re keeping track of all the ways nature has been overlooked and working to put it back on the agenda in Victoria.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by for a chat, signed our petitions and grabbed stickers and merch. Huge thanks to Planet Reimagined, Reverb and Tame Impala for having us along. Between the music and the next-level light show, it was an incredible run of shows for Tame Impala’s homecoming tour. 🌈🎶

Were you at one of the shows? Tell us your favourite moment (or song!) in the comments 👇

Authorised by The Wilderness Society Victoria Inc, 1/81-87 King William St, Fitzroy VIC 3065.

22/10/2026

Beautiful purple beard orchids (Calochilus robertsonii) photographed at Muckleford State Forest on Dja Dja Wurrung Country, Victoria by Brendan Sydes (.nature.photos) 🌼

These orchids are known for their long glistening, purple hairs, that give the orchid its fuzzy beard, and for two dark purple glands that look like eyes.

It's all an elaborate disguise. The flower releases a scene that mimics the pheremones of female scoliid wasps, and its beared lip looks enough like a female wasp to fool passing male wasps. When the male wasps try to mate with orchid, pollen sticks to his body, and he carries it on to the next orchid.

A reminder of how intelligent nature is, and how many remarkable relationships between plants and animals are happening all around us, every day.

📷 For your chance to have your nature photos featured in our feed, tag and The Wilderness Society.

20/10/2026

That's a wrap on Nature Book Week!

Stories are how we build connection to each other, nature, place and culture. Over Nature Book Week, there were more than 60 events across the continent where people created connection to nature through sharing stories.

At Harry Hartog Chatwood on 10 October, we announced the winners of the Karajia and Environment Awards for Children's Literature to kick off the week.

Environment Award judge (and author and music legend) John Williamson spoke about the importance of nature for future generations. 2026 winners Leesa Allinson (One Koala, One Hundred Trees) and Michelle Scott Tucker (Spirit of the Crocodile) joined us to celebrate their magnificent books.

Nature Book Week Ambassador Shannon from Oh Creative Day held a craft session using scraps of paper to create koala faces.

A huge thank you to all the staff at Harry Hartog Bookseller and for their generous donation of 10% of sales of all the shortlisted titles to the Wilderness Society to promote a love of nature in the next generation. 💚

20/10/2026

Dr Helen Haines is a strong advocate for wild places, renewables, and communities having a fair say in environmental decisions that affect them.

We are dismayed by yesterday's news that she was seriously injured outside her office in Wangaratta. We are wishing her the best in recovery, and thinking of her, her family, friends and community.

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