Wilderness Society

Protesters hold a banner opposing BP oil drilling in the Great Australian Bight, in St Kilda beach.

About 100 people rallied at Glenelg in Adelaide to protest against plans by oil company British Petroleum to explore for oil in the Great Australian Bight.

Leadbeater's Possum. Photo: Steven Kuiter.

Thirty environmental, scientific and recreation groups have called on the new Victorian government to create the Great Forest National Park.

The Wilderness Sociey put out this media release on November 13. * * * The NSW government鈥檚 new policy to offer compensation for those affected by the coal seam gas industry is just a desperate attempt to try to buy support for the toxic industry, the Wilderness Society said today as the government finally released the policy days after leaking it to the media.
The environment movement in Tasmania has split over support for a forest 鈥減eace鈥 agreement the Tasmanian Greens and environment groups made with the logging industry. The environment groups have been in negotiations with the industry for almost three years. As the industry declined, environmentalists saw a chance for reform to win an end to the forest wars permanently. The agreement was passed in state parliament on April 30, supported by the Greens and Labor, and opposed the Liberal party. However, many people in the environment movement disagreed with the bill.