Towards Two Billion Trees

World Wildlife Fund Launch

Australia’s native forests are home to some of the most unique flora and fauna on the planet.

Nature is being lost at an unprecedented rate around the globe.  Every year in Australia, an estimated 500,000 hectares of native forests and woodlands are bulldozed. That means an estimated 750 million native creatures will die as a direct consequence of excessive tree-clearing by 2030.

To make things worse, New South Wales and Queensland are facing some of the most dangerous and catastrophic bushfires along with South Australia and at the time of writing, West Australian firefighters are battling three major bushfires burning over more than 20,000 hectares, with two of them threatening lives and homes.

In New South Wales along almost 1.3 million hectares have been burnt already.  The chairman of the Australian Koala Foundation, Deborah Tabart, estimates that over 1,000 koalas have been killed from the fires and that 80 percent of their habitat has been destroyed.

The loss of biodiversity of this magnitude is both devastating and unacceptable and so the World Wildlife Fund has launched an ambitious 10-point plan for the next 10 years, Towards Two Billion Trees.

STOP excessive tree-clearing,
PROTECT our existing trees and forests, and
RESTORE native habitat that has been lost.

WWF will be working with landholders, farmers, Traditional Owners, communities, businesses and government to make the changes needed to move Australia from a country of deforestation to a reforestation leader by 2030.

Australia’s forests are our shared heritage and our legacy. If you would like to find out more and play a part in saving and restoring for future generations of people and nature go here wwf.org.au

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