Save Australia's Native Forests
Save Australia’s Native Forests – Once and For All
Forest giants are still falling - people are rising.
In 2020, Australia endured a horror summer of catastrophic climate-fires, laying waste to millions hectares of native forests and incinerating billions of wild creatures.
Every forest that still stands is a lifeboat for our iconic wildlife including Leadbeaters Possum, Koalas, Swift Parrots, Quolls, Tasmanian Devils and Wedge-tailed Eagles.
Eight billion humans depend on Earth’s remaining forests too, for the air we breathe and to regulate a climate teetering on the brink of collapse.
This destruction must end. It must end now.
As our climate circles the drain of global catastrophe, Earth’s forests are a critical last defence against looming calamity. A fragile swathe of green holding back the worst hammer blows of dangerous climate change.
In the defence of the forests lies the salvation of the natural world. If we, in the world’s richest democracy, cannot protect our remaining native forests, what chance for others?
So Bob Brown Foundation is taking on the destroyers, launching a campaign to end native forest logging - once and for all.
Save Australia’s Native Forests is the end-game campaign to abolish native forest logging. New Zealand did it 20 years ago and has never looked back.
Australia’s time has come. No weasel words, no compromises, no backing down.
It’s time to save all Australia’s native forests – now!
We have already struck the opening blows of this campaign, with our Great Forest Case launched in the Federal Court, aiming to strike down the disastrous Region Forest Agreements which have left a trail of destruction and extinction for the past 23 years.
At the heart of this campaign will be a Declaration for Australia’s native forests, a nationwide statement from Australians demanding our leaders act immediately to protect all remaining native forests and their wildlife.
A national advertising campaign will present confronting images of forest destruction alongside young Australians calling for action to protect our forests and wildlife from the Indian to the Pacific Ocean.
We need this call to action to spread across the airwaves, on the streets, on tv, in the newspapers and online as we build this movement for change.
Frontline direct actions, street protests and public events will be rolled out across the country, giving all Australians the opportunity to take a stand for their native forests.
This will be a monumental effort and we need at least $100,000 to pay for the advertisements, materials and logistics needed to make this a campaign of national significance.
Your tax-deductible donation will cover some of the key elements of this campaign. Your gift could fund
- a full-page newspaper ad
- social media promotions
- our new short campaign film
- endangered species research or
- direct actions in the forests.
Or you can contribute to the campaign by choosing one of the fabulous rewards on offer. Every single pledge will help this become the huge national campaign it must be to succeed.
And succeed it must. It may take time but with your support, we will Save Australia’s Native Forests.
For all life on Earth.
Budget Overview
Launching a national campaign to Save Australia's Native Forests is a huge undertaking, with a big price tag to match.
The funds raised in this crowdfunder will pay for these essential components of our campaign to ensure it has the maximum impact in the months ahead.
$60,000 - National advertising campaign featuring newspapers ads, extensive social media promotions and a 10-day takeover of the Guardian's environment section.
$5,000 - Endangered Species Research Team, including a botanist and GIS expert, providing critical data to our Great Forest Case legal team.
$10,000 - Great Forest Legal Case Coordinator, providing essential research and logistical support to our Great Forest Case legal team.
$5,000 - Award-winning Tasmanian filmmaker and photographer Matt Newton is a critical part of our campaign team, producing a range of video and photographic assets which will showcase the beauty of our native forests and their wildlife and the devastation that logging wreaks on them.
$3,000 - Web developers Bit League will design and produce the Native Forest Declaration webpage, to allow us to collect tens of thousands of signatures to Save Australia's Native Forests and build a community of active supporters for the long campaign ahead.
$12,000 - Frontline direct forest actions. These funds will provide the equipment, food, transport, logistical and legal support needed to take direct action in threatened forests. These funds will also help to produce a 45-minute film, Forest Defenders, which will highlight the courageous actions of our forest activists on the frontlines, taking direct action to protect Tasmania's native forests.
No Reward
Your tax-deductible donation, large or small, will help to Save Australia's Native Forests, once and for all.
Colour the Earth - Wilderness and Wildlife colouring book - digital copy
Designed by Bob Brown Foundation, this is a beautiful book of colouring prints by Tarkine in Motion artists including Anne Conran, Aleta Lederwasch and Marlee Hurn. Featuring some of the unique wild creatures who call Australia's native forests their home. Digital copy to download and print from your home computer using only black ink and A4 paper.
The Great Forest Case sticker
Show your support for The Great Forest Case with this beautiful sticker by artist Carla Scotto.
Tote bag
Tote bag featuring new Great Forest Case design by Carla Scotto.
Campaign t-shirt
Fairtrade, organic, carbon-neutral t-shirts, printed in Australia. Featuring new Great Forest Case design by Carla Scotto. Unisex sizes.
Swift Parrot pin
The faunal emblem of our campaign to Save Australia's Native Forests, the Swift Parrot is the fastest parrot in the world. Show your support for this beautiful, critically endangered bird and support our campaign to save their forest habitat.
Street poster campaign - Brisbane
Take our campaign message to the streets of Brisbane with 100 large street posters plastered across the city.
Amplify our campaign on social media
Your tax-deductible donation will help fund social media advertising which will reach thousands of people, asking them to sign our Declaration on Native Forests.
Pay for a full page newspaper ad
Your tax-deductible donation will pay for the placement of a full page ad in a national newspaper, calling on Australians to sign our Native Forests Declaration.
10 day ad package in The Guardian
Your tax-deductible donation will fund a 10-day takeover of The Guardian Australia's online environment section with a short film ad.
Colour the Earth - Wilderness and Wildlife colouring book
Designed by Bob Brown Foundation, this is a beautiful A4 book of colouring prints by Tarkine in Motion artists including Anne Conran, Aleta Lederwasch and Marlee Hurn. Featuring some of the unique wild creatures who call Australia's native forests their home. Printed in Tasmania on recycled materials.
Hidden Vale – Poetry and Music by Bob Brown, Steven Crump and Monique Brumby
Bob's poetry read by the man himself with music by Steve Crump, produced, mixed and mastered by Monique Brumby (who also performs on almost all the tracks). The CD includes 16-page colour booklet of the poems with prestigious illustrative artwork by Tasmanian artist Kudelka. Choose from either a CD with included digital download or a digital download only.
Rob Blakers takayna / Tarkine forest photograph
A stunning photograph of the threatened forests of takayna / Tarkine by one of Tasmania's leading photographers, Rob Blakers. Unframed.
Street poster campaign - Sydney
Take the campaign message to streets of Sydney with 100 large posters placed around the city.
Smitten voucher pack
The wonderful people at Smitten, based in Tasmania and producing exquisite woollen products, have donated a voucher worth $150 to spend online. The nice people at Bob Brown Foundation have included a campaign sticker, a download of Winter Night at Liffey and a digital copy of our Wilderness and Wildlife colouring book.
Street poster campaign - Melbourne
Spread the message to Save Australia's Native Forests with a billboard and 50 large streets posters in Melbourne.