The Amazon
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Protecting Our Forests
Our world is in crisis. Our forests are disappearing and natural habitats are being destroyed.
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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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Tell Murray Watt to protect our great barrier reef and forests
The Australian Government is rewriting our national nature law. It is a once-in-a-generation chance to protect forests, wildlife and the Great Barrier Reef. Your voice matters. Call Murray Watt NOW!
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Call on PM Albanese to defend the Amazon
World leaders will soon be meeting to discuss the future of the Amazon…your voice can make a difference.
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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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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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Tell Coles: take deforestation off the shelves
ALDI and Woolworths have recently committed to only sourcing deforestation-free beef, but Coles is lagging behind.
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.
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
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 Laws Are Finally Up for Reform. But Will They Be Strong Enough to Protect What Matters?
This week marks a major moment in Australia’s long and frustrating struggle to fix its broken national nature laws. The federal government has finally tabled long-awaited reforms to the Environment…
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EPBC reforms must be significantly improved to deliver for nature
CANBERRA, 30 OCTOBER 2025 — Greenpeace has warned that the revamped laws will fall far short if critical gaps in addressing deforestation, climate impacts and excessive Ministerial discretion are not…
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Leading scientists call for EPBC reforms to strengthen Great Barrier Reef protection
CANBERRA, Thursday 23 October 2025 — More than 100 Australian scientists and researchers have called on the Labor Government to address deforestation in the new nature law reforms, warning that…
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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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