Wilderness Society to target Abbott, Frydenberg and Hunt in federal election

Society says 'it's up to voters to work out what politicians they want to make into threatened species'

The Wilderness Society will target former environment ministers Greg Hunt and Josh Frydenberg and former prime minister Tony Abbott in its first major federal election campaign in a decade.

After a summer in which temperature records tumbled and up to a million fish died in in the Lower Darling, climate change and the environment are front and centre in voters' minds before the expected May election, according to conservation groups and the major parties' internal polling.