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Make birds heard in your electorate!

Email the candidates running in your local electorate, to ensure your local birds are heard in the 2025 Federal election.

Our laws need to work for nature

Australia’s bird calls form an iconic chorus, but only we can give birds a voice that our local candidates can hear.

Sadly, 164 native Aussie birds are listed as threatened, more than any other animal group, and around 1 in 3 threatened Aussie birds can be found in urban areas. This means that every single electorate matters for birds, and we need to ensure our candidates hear what is at stake for birds.

Use our candidate tool to contact the candidates in your electorate:

  1. Enter your address to find your local candidates*
  2. Add your details to the form
  3. (Optional) Consider personalising the message you send your candidates
  4. Hit ‘Send my email’ to give birds a voice to your local candidates

*We are updating our list of candidates as best we can, as candidates are announced in the coming weeks. If you know of any candidates that we are missing, and have their email address, please let us know at conservation@birdlife.org.au

Photographed by John Barkla. Swift Parrot

Birds need your support to be heard this election

  • 164 native Aussie birds are listed as threatened, more than any other animal group
  • 45% of our almost 1,000 birds are found nowhere else on Earth
  • 1 in 3 threatened Aussie birds can be found in urban areas

But it’s not all bad:

  • 400K+ people in BirdLife Australia’s national community of citizen scientists and supporters
  • $13bn in economic benefit from bird-watching tourists over four years

That’s why this election campaign, and beyond, we are calling on candidates across Australia to make clear, firm commitments to delivering the best outcomes for birds.

You can help ensure your local birds are heard, using our local candidate email tool.

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2025 Federal Election

Aussie birds are disappearing. Let’s ensure Aussie birds are heard this election.

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Give birds a voice this election

1 in 6 Australian birds face extinction, unless we ensure birds are heard this election!

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