Tell the Treasurer to properly fund nature protection

The government has failed to protect the environment and endangered species from destructive projects for too long. The government now recognises this and is reforming Australia’s main environmental law. Together, we can build pressure to push the Albanese government to act NOW to stop the destruction and protect endangered species.

One important piece of the puzzle is funding. And a new Federal Budget is around the corner. That budget is a key opportunity to start properly funding nature protection.

But the government hasn’t yet put its money where its mouth is. Federal funding for the environment has stagnated ...

The government has failed to protect the environment and endangered species from destructive projects for too long. The government now recognises this and is reforming Australia’s main environmental law. Together, we can build pressure to push the Albanese government to act NOW to stop the destruction and protect endangered species.

One important piece of the puzzle is funding. And a new Federal Budget is around the corner. That budget is a key opportunity to start properly funding nature protection.

But the government hasn’t yet put its money where its mouth is. Federal funding for the environment has stagnated for two decades despite massive economic growth and increases in government spending on many other portfolio areas.

Please help to put funding for nature protection on the political agenda and hold the government accountable for funding shortfalls. The most powerful way you and thousands of others can keep the pressure on is by emailing Australia’s Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Minister for Environment and Water Tanya Plibersek today to get serious about funding nature protection.

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Email the Treasurer and Environment Minister today!

Email Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Minister for Environment and Water Tanya Plibersek to demand more funding for environmental protection in this month’s annual budget.

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Dear Treasurer Chalmers and Minister Plibersek,

I am emailing you both, as Australia’s Treasurer and Minister of the Environment and Water, to call on you to allocate more funding in this month’s Federal Budget for environmental protection and to fulfill Australia’s biodiversity and environmental conservation obligations.

Australia’s unique biodiversity is globally significant and irreplaceable. Yet our conservation record is among the world’s worst. I welcome the ongoing reform of Australia's environment law. But urgent steps need to be taken right now to help nature recover from decades of mismanagement.

We need action and funding immediately to reverse Australia’s steep environmental decline. Federal funding for the environment has stagnated for two decades despite massive economic growth and increases in government spending on many other portfolio areas. Now is the time to allocate sufficient public funding in the Federal Budget for environmental enforcement and compliance, and to address the backlog on species recovery plans, world and national heritage site identification and planning, and threat abatement planning.

Please properly fund nature protection before it is too late.

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