Protecting Our Forests
Our world is in crisis. Our forests are disappearing and natural habitats are being destroyed.
How you can help
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Our Wildlife Needs Your Urgent Action
Australia’s native forests and animals are in crisis. We call on PM Anthony Albanese and his government to become a world leader in forest protection and act swiftly to protect our threatened native environment. We call on the Australian Federal Government to implement strong environmental protection laws to end deforestation in Australia by 2025.
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You can help protect our homes before it’s too late
Animals are being pushed to extinction from the Amazon to Australia as greedy corporations destroy the world’s forests. Donate now to stop this destruction.
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Help protect our forests: Submit a letter to the senate inquiry
Join us in writing to the senate. All you need to do is write from your heart using our guide, or you can copy and paste our pre written letter.
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Tell your MP to protect our forests
Right now, the Albanese Government is rewriting our national nature law. It is a once-in-a-generation chance to protect forests and wildlife. Tell the government to protect our forests with a strong nature law.
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Tell Coles: take deforestation off the shelves
ALDI and Woolworths have recently committed to only sourcing deforestation-free beef, but Coles is lagging behind.
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McDonalds, Take Deforestation off the Menu
Forest destruction for beef production is fuelling the extinction crisis in Australia. McDonald’s customers would be shocked to learn their Big Mac could be pushing threatened species like the koala to the brink of extinction.
1
animal
Is killed every second by deforestation
2
minutes
Is the time it takes for a forest the size of the MCG to be cleared
620,000
Hectares of forest lost to deforestation annually in Australia
The problem
Imagine two huge bulldozers rumbling brutally through a forest snapping trees like matchsticks. Imagine wildlife desperately fleeing the scene, being killed, maimed or dying slowly of starvation. Imagine the trees pushed into piles and set on fire to complete the annihilation of the forest.
Now imagine this horrible deforestation happening every 2 minutes to an area of forest and bushland the size of the MCG. This is the scale of the deforestation crisis underway in Australia.
What we do
Greenpeace has for decades been a global leader and voice for action to curb deforestation. Locally, Greenpeace Australia Pacific is focused on shifting Australia’s biggest corporations to go deforestation-free and removing the economic incentives for this environmental destruction.
You can help bring an end to the destruction of our forests
Your ongoing support is the most effective way to contribute by helping us with long term campaign strategies.
Learn more about forests and nature
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Australia’s nature is in trouble.
Australia’s new environmental standards are supposed to protect wildlife. Right now, they don’t.
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Federal Budget must give Aussies a ‘fair shake of the sauce bottle’: Greenpeace
SYDNEY, Tuesday 12 May 2026 — Ahead of tonight’s Federal Budget, the following statement can be attributed to David Ritter, CEO of Greenpeace Australia Pacific:
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Greenpeace initiate legal action against meat giant JBS, as activists shut down first Dutch shareholder meeting
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, 30 April 2026 – Greenpeace Netherlands has taken the first step towards legal action against meat giant JBS, demanding disclosure of information on its climate, nature and human…
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Report: Toxic Skies – How Agribusiness is Choking the Amazon
This report tracks air pollution across key regions of the Amazon, revealing how fires related to agricultural activity, in particular cattle pastures and deforestation, are degrading air quality, threatening public health, and accelerating climate and biodiversity crises.
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Public Poll: People want more forest action
9 in 10 people view forest action as critical to fight climate change.
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Report: The ongoing animal welfare crisis from deforestation in Australia
Little has improved for wild animals since our last report on this crisis in 2017. Despite some reforms to the Vegetation Management Act in Queensland in 2018, laws and policies in both states have not greatly changed and still allow very large areas of bushland habitat for wildlife to be destroyed every year, likely harming,…
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Report: Deforestation Crisis on Their Watch
Australia is a global deforestation hotspot, driven primarily by the beef industry. About every two minutes, a large football field-sized area of forest and bushland is bulldozed, putting Australia alongside places like the Amazon, Congo and Borneo on the scale of destruction.
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REPORT: Clearcutting Free Speech
Canada’s Great Northern Boreal Forest, stewarded by Indigenous Peoples since time immemorial, includes some of the world’s last large expanses of undisturbed natural forest, is home to threatened species, and…
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REPORT: Cutting deforestation out of the palm oil supply chain
In recent years, the world’s biggest companies have woken up to the environmental costs associated with palm oil and the other commodities they buy. Nowhere are those costs more evident than in Indonesia, which has lost 31 million hectares of forest, an area almost the size of Germany, since 1990.
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