Commonwealth NGOs
related to forestry

bullet1 AUSTRALIA

bullet2 Wilderness Society

HQ address: 1st Floor, Baileys Corner

143 London Circuit

Canberra 2608

ACT

Australia

Email:  julie.mcguiness@wilderness.org.au

Website: www.wilderness.org.au

Type of Organisation:  NGO   

Scope:  national   

Interest in Forestry:  peripheral

Description

The Wilderness Society is a community-based environmental advocacy organisation whose mission is protecting, promoting and restoring wilderness and natural processes across Australia for the survival and ongoing evolution of life on Earth.

TWS works through the avenues of public education and empowerment, advocacy and negotiation, and desk and field research. TWS is politically unaligned, but uses democratic processes to maximise wise conservation decisions.