CERVINE pests are destroying the environment, farms, Aboriginal heritage and the economy due to the authorities’ inaction on the Apple Isle. The claim in a new report issued by The Invasive Species Council accompanied a warning that a million feral deer could…
The Bob Brown Foundation (BBF) is pleased to announce that over one thousand submissions have been sent to the Australian Antarctic Division opposing plans for a 2.7km long concrete runway to be constructed at Davis station, Antarctica. The proposed runway would have…
New federal legislation to allow logging of native forests despite current court rulings of illegality is a rort against the majority of Australians who want the forests and wildlife saved, according to former Greens leader Bob Brown.…
The Bob Brown Foundation is taking a robust approach to protect the Antarctic with two new campaigners; Alistair Allan and Carola Rackete. These new positions will enable Bob Brown Foundation to extend its campaigning beyond Australia to protect the world’s greatest wilderness…
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has put a pall over Australia’s Threatened Species Day by rushing legislation through the national parliament, which will accelerate the extinction of the nation’s wildlife, the Bob Brown Foundation said today. “While other Australians are marking this 7th…
AdaniWatch reveals chilling details of coercion and power used to threaten an Adivasi community As dams and mines expand across the Adivasi (a blanket term used to describe India’s indigenous tribes) inhabited regions, more specifically in the central-eastern parts of the country,…

Ten forest defenders are in Tasmania’s wild and scenic forests this morning to highlight the urgent need to end the destruction of remnant, wildlife-filled ecosystems. They have halted cable-logging on the north slopes below Mount Field National Park, an hour-and-a-half northwest of…
New research from the University of Tasmania has found that logging causes bushfires to be worse. In a scientific paper published in the Journal ‘Fire’, the researchers found that logging regrowth and plantations burned at a higher severity than old-growth forests.…
AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister Scott Morrison should call on the Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo to drop plans to resume the slaughter of minke whales on July 1, the Bob Brown Foundation said yesterday.…
THE Japanese whaling fleet’s gloating at its illegal killing of 333 defenceless minke whales, 30 per cent of which had not even reached maturity, shames humanity, former Greens leader Bob Brown said in Hobart on the weekend. “The Bob Brown Foundation totally…