Connectivity

The Wilderness Society (TWS) is a nationwide, community-based, not-for-profit organisation whose purpose is protecting, promoting and restoring wilderness and natural processes across Australia for the survival and ongoing evolution of life on Earth. With over 30 years of success, The Wilderness Society has been instrumental in the protection of more than eight and a half million hectares of magnificent wilderness, including globally recognised Australian icons such as the Daintree, Kakadu, Macquarie Island, Ningaloo Reef, Fraser Island and Tasmania’s south-west. The Wilderness Society was also central to achieving the secure protection of over 20 million hectares of bushland from destructive land clearing practices. The Wilderness Society has a long-term vision and strategy to revolutionise conservation planning in Australia and give nature its best possible chance of survival in the future which it refers to as WildCountry. Using a new understanding of large-scale connections across the continent, WildCountry is developing a science-based, continent-wide approach to conservation planning that involves both protecting the best of what is left of Australia’s natural environment, and restoring important areas. Crucially, WildCountry focuses on maintaining and/or restoring ecological processes and connections in the land- and sea-scapes. We welcome the opportunity to comment on the current revision of the Nature Conservatio