Environment, Biodiversity & Natural Heritage
The Greens were founded on the vision of a robust and healthy environment, and that vision continues today. We are working hard to promote environmental values in Parliament and protect our unique wildlife and wild places.
The 2011 State of the Environment report (SoE) shows Australia’s biodiversity on land and sea in alarming decline.
The Greens successfully negotiated the $946 million Biodiversity Fund as part of the Clean Energy Future Package, funding communities to restore bushland and native habitats and reduce the impacts of weeds and feral animals.
The Greens are pursuing reforms to our national environmental laws to urgently protect threatened species and to make sure our iconic areas, like the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, are protected for future generations.
We need environment laws that work to stop the biodiversity crisis, save our threatened species, and protect our precious places. Sign up to find out more about our work to fix our environment laws.
event
20 Feb 2013 | 9:00 am
Richard Di Natale will be attending the public hearing of the inquiry into the effectiveness of threatened species and eco...
media-releases
04 Jan 2013
The Australian Greens were pleased that the Federal Court today dismissed Victoria’s bid to overturn the Commonwealth Gov...
event
05 Dec 2012 | 6:00 pm
The Leadbeater’s Possum is facing extinction as logging and bushfires destroy its forest habitat in central Victoria.&nbs...
video
21 Nov 2012
Senator Di Natale spoke in the Senate about the future of Victoria's state animal emblem, the Leadbeater's Possum, a tiny marsu...
media-releases
12 Sep 2012
The Australian Greens today said that the resignation of respected ecologist David Lindenmayer over government inaction to prot...
media-releases
23 Aug 2012
The Greens held a joint press conference to discuss mining royalties, the MRRT, environmental protections and increasing the hu...
media-releases
23 Sep 2011
Victorian Greens Senator, Dr Richard Di Natale, is calling on the government to protect the newly classified Burrunan dolphin u...