Most Australians (97%) want more action to protect nature, even if they don’t know the full extent of the biodiversity crisis. This has led the World Economic Forum to declare biodiversity loss as the third most severe threat humanity will face in the next ten years.
Encouragingly, almost everyone (97%) wanted more action to conserve biodiversity.
This shows that even when awareness is limited, people value nature and recognise the importance of protecting our natural environment.
More than 70% of people also support: banning logging in native forests introducing laws to prevent domestic cats roaming the streets requiring businesses to report their impact on nature establishing new protected areas (such as national parks) at places with high biodiversity. Significantly, very few people opposed these policies (between 3% and 9% across the suite of policy options).
That’s true but the funding for the environment is terrible. More of an afterthought really.
Perhaps a fraction of some of those mining subsidies could go somewhere useful.