The Wilderness Society (Australia)

The Wilderness Society ( TWS) is an Australian non-profit organization that has set itself the goal to protect the natural wilderness of Australia to maintain or restore. It is an organization that is not set to the contents of a political party.

History

The Wilderness Society evolved from the organization The Tasmanian Wilderness Society, organized the protests against the planned dams in the State Hydro-Electric Commission (HEC ) in Tasmania in the early 1970s. This Wilderness Society emerged from the experiences of this resistance and was recruited from people who were protesting against the construction of Lake Pedder Dam in 1972 without being able to stop the construction. The Tasmanian Wilderness Society was working together with the United Tasmania Group, the first " Green Party " in the world. In the second project of HEC, which should lead to the establishment of the Franklin dam on the Gordon River in the southwest of Tasmania, the protest by the Founded in 1976, HEC was organized. This protest resulted in the construction of the Franklin Dam could be prevented. This success attracted the australia wide dissemination of the Wilderness Society after themselves.

Against the formation of this Society, the Group Gunns timber industry in Australia complained to the Supreme Court in Melbourne.

Objectives

The Wilderness Society pursued according to information provided long-term goals and plans to preserve the original landscape of Australia. The Society is dedicated to the following content: No destruction of historic forest landscapes and the protection of endangered animals, protection of river landscapes in Queensland and the Cape York Peninsula, and the support of the anti - nuclear movement.

A well-known representative of the Wilderness Society is Bob Brown, who was elected in 1978 to the director. Brown was elected to the Tasmanian Parliament in 1983 for the Tasmanian Greens and later the Australian Parliament as a Senator for the Australian Greens.

The Wilderness Society is funded in addition to other sources such as membership fees and donations for the sale of calendars and posters, famous photographers in Australia.