Send a message to the Australian government

The road to recovery starts with getting urgently needed funds to frontline wildlife carers in the fire grounds. The next step is ensuring we restore the homes our wildlife lost, by replanting the trees we need to rebuild our natural lands again.

We are working hard to ensure we get the recovery program right; a critical step in making sure we don’t suffer this much loss of life and landscape again.

All recovery efforts should be targeted to ensuring that we replant the habitats we’ve lost to tree clearing and fires; protecting our remaining native trees and forests still standing, and advocating for better decision making and bushland management policies in the years to come.

We’re working with all the governments undertaking the recovery effort, to make sure they do so in a way that helps protect our people and wildlife from similar crises in future.

Are you with us? Add your voice to our call for action! Help us secure a better funded, more comprehensive bushfire recovery plan to protect people and nature - one that protects and restores nature.



We will gather this rapidly growing list of people and deliver this petition to government on your behalf in early 2020.





Here's the message we're sending:

Dear Leaders,

This summer’s bushfire crisis has been heartbreaking.Over the Christmas break, WWF-Australia’s supporters joined together to show their support for a nature-based recovery plan that restores native habitat to feed and shelter our wildlife and demands better policies and laws to protect their bushland homes in future.

Our supporters have done this by putting their hand in their pocket to contribute to the newly launched Australian Wildlife and Nature Recovery Fund.

We have made this investment to protect the future of our country, and now we’re calling on you to do the same - to ensure that you get the recovery mix right..



We are calling for a comprehensive nature-based recovery plan that will seek to:

Assess the impact on threatened species affected by the fires

Establish a nature-based fire recovery body to coordinate recovery efforts

Develop a large scale, landscape level reforestation plan

Stabilize and reverse the decline of threatened species populations whose homes have been lost

Establish an Aboriginal fire management program

Fund a Climate Preparedness & Adaptation Innovation Hub

Cease all native forest logging for 24 months within fire affected landscapes

Invest in the development of a timber transition plan

Protect mature native forests by phasing out major deforestation

Establish a landscape restoration fund with a carbon capture focus

Onlyby ensuring we adopt a nature-based recovery can we begin to turn around this disastrous situation- and begin to forge a new deal for people and nature.On behalf of WWF-Australia’s supporters, I thank you for your time.