Tell your MP: put communities and nature before corporations!

Tell your MP: put communities and nature before corporations!

The Wilderness Society’s new report shows Australia’s current system of environmental decision-making is not working for the environment or communities. 

Currently, decision-making is weighted in favour of corporations and communities are not ensured a genuine say.

Decisions made with and by communities result in better outcomes for people and nature. Together, we are calling on the government to include strong environmental community rights in the new EPBC Act, which will be drafted over the coming months.

Every MP needs to see this report to help inform their position on the importance of strengthening Australia's national nature law ...

The Wilderness Society’s new report shows Australia’s current system of environmental decision-making is not working for the environment or communities. 

Currently, decision-making is weighted in favour of corporations and communities are not ensured a genuine say.

Decisions made with and by communities result in better outcomes for people and nature. Together, we are calling on the government to include strong environmental community rights in the new EPBC Act, which will be drafted over the coming months.

Every MP needs to see this report to help inform their position on the importance of strengthening Australia's national nature law.

Will you add your name to a letter to your MP, asking them to read the report—and support reforms that put nature and communities before corporations?

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Add your name to a letter to your MP

Will you add your name to a letter to your MP, asking them to read the Wilderness Society’s report—and support reforms that put nature and communities before corporations?

I encourage you, as my local Member of Parliament, to support amendments to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) to give communities a genuine say in environmental decisions.

Australia’s current failure to properly ensure a consistent and fair approach to community participation in environmental decision-making is leaving a legacy that is harming communities, driving a wildlife extinction crisis, and allowing the destruction and degradation of Australia’s globally iconic nature.

The three universal environmental community rights—the right to know about, to participate in and to challenge decisions—must be firmly embedded in the EPBC Act to ensure transparency, accountability and public participation in government decision-making about the environment.

If all communities across Australia are empowered with a nationally-consistent standard of strong environmental community rights and are able to have a genuine say in decision-making, we’ll see better outcomes for people and nature.