Tell your MP: End government support for nature destruction and start investing 1% to restore it.

Please join us in telling the Australian Government that it’s not good enough.

Australia’s nature is in crisis

Australia is one of the most biodiverse countries on Earth. Yet the State of the Environment Report found our environment is in poor and deteriorating condition.

More than 2,200 species and ecological communities are now listed as threatened with extinction.

Their loss jeopardises not only wildlife, but also the natural systems that support our food security, water supplies, human health, climate resilience and economy.

Stop funding nature destruction

Our analysis shows that the Australian Government spends around 25 times more harming nature than helping it.

$26 billion every year - 4% of the federal budget - flows to financial subsidies and tax breaks for activities that damage the environment, including fossil fuel extraction and large mining projects.

Meanwhile, only 0.06% of the federal budget is spent on direct actions to protect and restore nature.

Reallocating harmful subsidies means redirecting government handouts away from nature-damaging industries and toward protecting the ecosystems that sustain us.

Big multinational corporations don’t need more help. Nature does.

The solution is achievable: 1% for nature

Our analysis shows that comitting just 1% of the federal budget to caring for nature would provide enough funding to:

• Prevent extinctions
• Recover threatened species
• Restore degraded landscapes
• Protect at least 30% of each of Australia’s land and sea ecosystems

That is why an alliance of environmental organisations are now calling for 1% for nature.

Tell your MP that Australians want a healthier and more sustainable future. To make this happen, the Australian Government must end its $26 billion per year in financial support for nature destruction and lift spending on nature conservation to 1%.