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Campaigns
The Wilderness Society’s campaigns fall under two main themes: nature and climate. The goal of the nature campaign is to ‘protect wilderness and nature across Australia by creating protected areas and strong, nationally consistent laws and institutions ', while the climate campaign aims to ‘keep as great a volume of fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas) in the ground as possible, limiting Australia’s contribution to catastrophic climate change '.

The Wilderness Society's current campaigns include:
 * protecting the Great Australian Bight from BP and the threat of deep sea oil drilling;
 * advocating for the creation of the Great Forest National Park in Victoria’s Central Highlands, to save the critically endangered Leadbeater’s (Fairy) Possum;
 * standing with locals to save the Pilliga forest from Santos and CSG;
 * securing protection for the Great Western Woodlands and Kimberley regions of Western Australia;
 * stopping logging and mining in Tasmania's forests—including the old growth forests of the Tarkine;
 * ensuring there are laws in place to protect vast savanna woodland from destructive land clearing in Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia; and
 * promoting nature as a climate solution.

Movement For Life
In April 2016, the Wilderness Society launched a new community organising program called ‘Movement For Life’. It was created by the organisation’s National Community Organising Manager, a member of the Obama '08 campaign team. The program teaches the skills and ideas behind the most successful movements in the world today.

Funding
As an independent charity, the Wilderness Society receives no government funding and relies on donations, gifts in wills (bequests) and member subscriptions for the bulk of its funding. For the 2014–2015 financial year, the organisation had a total income of $11,804,395, with 90% of this raised through donations, 6% from members subscriptions, 1% from merchandise and sales[3], 2% from other income and 1% through bequests. For the same year, total expenses were $11,391,012, distributed as 51% on program, 20% on fundraising, 15% on recruitment, 13% on operations and 1% on Forever Wild Trust.[7]