The Biodiversity Council congratulates the Australian Labor Party on their election victory. This term of government will be critical for nature

Australia’s natural environments will be left in a worse state for future generations under the policy commitments of both major parties, according to an analysis by our panel of experts.

Welcome to this webinar where we discuss findings from the third annual Biodiversity Concerns Survey, a representative survey of 3,500 Australians exploring their attitudes to a range of biodiversity issues.

An annual investment of $340 million is needed to prevent the extinctions of Australia’s 95 threatened marine species, which include dolphins, sea lions, sea turtles, whale sharks, handfishes and a wide variety of seabirds and shorebirds.

Native bee populations are under threat from land clearing, pesticide use and the impacts of climate change. Bee hotels are a great way of providing essential habitat to these struggling pollinators, but store-bought hotels may not be up to the task.

The Biodiversity Council welcomes the policy commitment today from the Australian Greens to invest 1% of the federal budget in nature protection.

The federal budget was released on Tuesday 25 March. We have examined it with a fine-tooth comb to see what it held for nature. Here are some of our insights.

A review of the 2025-26 federal budget has found that the Albanese Government is still far short of investing what is required to meet the Australian Government’s own environmental commitments, despite recent funding commitments for protected areas.

The Prime Minister has argued Maugean skate numbers are the same as they were a decade ago, but that figure is only a small piece of a more complex situation that suggests the future of this species is uncertain.

Environmental law amendments being rushed through parliament this week will tear another hole in Australia's green safety net, the EPBC Act.