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Strong Nature Laws

Join our campaign calling for the Federal Government to deliver strong nature laws and save our threatened birds from extinction.

CR Critically Endangered (CR)

Our laws need to work for nature

Momentum is building for strong nature laws in Australia.

After years of campaigning, we now have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to protect the birds and places we love.

Our nature laws are being rewritten, and soon, Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek will introduce these nature law reforms in Parliament.

If you love birds, help save them! Add your voice for strong nature laws.

Photographed by John Barkla. Swift Parrot

Australia is in an extinction crisis

Australia’s nature is in crisis – with around 1 in 6 Australian birds now at risk of extinction.

Habitat destruction, climate change, invasive species and other avoidable human impacts continue to threaten the precious birds and places we love. Meanwhile, our national environment laws are failing the threatened species it’s supposed to protect.

We need to take action now to put nature on the path of recovery – before it’s too late.

Together, we can save the Aussie birds and places we love

We need the Federal Government to deliver strong nature laws by:

  • Enacting strong and enforced national environment standards that protect critical habitat and safeguard nature from destruction
  • Creating an independent National Environment Protection Agency that will monitor, apply, and enforce these rules and laws and hold our politicians accountable
  • Closing legal loopholes that favour big businesses over nature, and
  • Adequately funding habitat restoration and threatened species recovery efforts.

You can help to get these nature laws passed.

Add your voice by signing our petition for strong nature laws in 2025. If you’ve already signed it, share it!

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

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2025 Federal Election

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

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Swift Parrot

The Critically Endangered Swift Parrot is one of just three migratory parrots on earth, breeding in Tasmania before migrating across Bass Strait to the mainland

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Western Ground Parrot

The 'Critically Endangered' Western Ground Parrot or Kyloring is relatively small and elusive, restricted to coastal heathland in southern Western Australia.

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Hooded Plover

The Hooded Plover is a medium-sized, pale brownish-grey plover. It has a black head and a white nape, and the black hindneck collar extends around and forks ont

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