Protect Australia's natural treasures. Increase funding for conservation and environmental protection.

It's right there in Australia’s national anthem: our land abounds in nature's gifts, of beauty rich and rare. Our identity is deeply embedded in the wonders of our unique natural environment.

However, our nature faces significant and unprecedented threats. The latest national State of Environment reports that climate change is impacting vital ecosystems, land clearing is damaging soil, waterways and biodiversity, coal mining and the coal-seam gas industry are putting increasing pressure on the environment, grazing and invasive species continue to pose a significant threat to biodiversity.

With so much on the line, it's a disgrace that funding for conservation has been in a free fall since 2013 – despite successive reports warning of these dire trends. In fact, today only 5c in every 100 dollars of taxpayer expenditure goes to conservation.

Instead, our government is getting ready to spend one billion dollars of taxpayers' money to help build Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine, which will be a major source of pollution for decades to come.

The federal government must step up and increase funding by at least 400 per cent if it is to reverse the dramatic decline of Australia's wildlife, reefs and forests documented in the State of the Environment report.

Sign the petition today and urge the Australian government to increase funding for conservation and environmental protection before it is too late.