Be a voice for wildlife and help protect their habitats

RSPCA Queensland is calling on the Queensland Government to implement stronger protections for wildlife habitat to save our native animals from death, suffering and harm by:

• Simplifying and strengthening the planning framework for effective and consistent long-term protection of koala habitat across Queensland;
• Reducing and removing complexity and ambiguity of deforestation exemptions;
• Ensuring Queensland Government developments meet the same standards as private sector developments;
• Identifying and mapping priority sites for destroyed habitat to be replaced across Queensland to maximise long-term benefits for koalas.

A joint report from Greenpeace Australia Pacific and RSPCA Queensland has revealed 100 million native wildlife are displaced, harmed or killed annually from deforestation.

From 2016 to 2021, 2.4 million hectares of forest and woodland habitats were bulldozed or cleared in Queensland and New South Wales. In Queensland, 82% of clearing in 2020-21 was exempt from the law.

Deforestation doesn't just remove valuable Koala habitat. In our urban and peri-urban environments, deforestation leads to fragmentation of forests resulting in continual death and injury of koalas and other wildlife.

At RSPCA Queensland, we treat over 24,000 sick and injured native animals very year at our Wildlife Hospital. Their rescue, veterinary care and rehabilitation is critical to help them get a second chance in the wild. We're calling on Queensland Government to help fund this critical wildlife service by contributing to RSPCA's new Wildlife Hospital.

Why sign the petition?

A new report highlights the shocking scale of wildlife impacted by deforestation...

• 100 million animals impacted from deforestation every year
• 2.4 million hectares of habitats lost in five years