Western Australia’s peak environment and sustainability group today welcomed a report from the State Government’s independent Uranium Advisory Group (UAG), which has further exposed serious flaws in the state’s regulatory system for uranium mines.
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Government plan to increase logging a death sentence for endangered wildlife
WA's peak environment and conservation organisation has expressed outrage plans by the State Government to increase native forest logging in WA's South West.
A ‘scoping document’ for the next 10-year Forest Management Plan released last week, reveals government plans to expand native forest logging to 10,000 hectares – 25 times the size of Kings Park – every year.
Camden Sound Marine Park the right way forward for Kimberley
Conservation groups today welcomed the release of the final boundaries for the Camden Sound Marine Park which includes the largest sanctuary zone in Western Australia’s waters - over Montgomery Reef.
Residents unite against Rockingham marina plan
WA’s peak environment and sustainability group has today joined with local conservationists, campers, recreational anglers, boaters and ordinary families in expressing its opposition to the proposed Mangles Bay marina development in Point Peron near Rockingham.
Parliamentary Inquiry needed to combat industry spin on gas fracking
Western Australia’s peak environment group has responded to the gas industry’s launch of a ‘comprehensive information program’ on gas fracking, saying it will fail to convince WA communities, and calling instead for a Parliamentary inquiry into the industry and its impacts and regulation in WA.
Conservationists, fishermen and residents unite in opposition to controversial marina proposal
What:This Thursday 5th April, Western Australia’s peak environmental and commercial fishing bodies will come together for a joint press conference in West Perth to show their united opposition to the proposed marina and canal development at Mangles Bay in the City of Rockingham.
The peak groups will be joined by representatives from local Rockingham community groups, who have long opposed the controversial State Government funded project.
Conservation Council welcomes Ngari Capes Marine Park
Western Australia’s peak conservation and sustainability group the Conservation Council of Western Australia today welcomed the establishment of the Ngari Capes Marine Park.
“Geographe Bay and the Capes region is one of the most important marine environments in Western Australia and it is great to see this recognized by the Government with the creation of a new marine park,” said Conservation Council of WA Marine Coordinator Tim Nicol.
Thousands call for logging halt to save WA’s threatened species
Western Australia’s peak environment and forest conservation groups gathered on the steps of Parliament House yesterday to present the Barnett Government with over 5,000 letters calling on them to end native forest logging to protect WA’s threatened species.
Conservation Council Director Piers Verstegen said, “On World Forest Day, people around the world are celebrating forests; however in Western Australia a loss-making logging industry is tearing down critical habitat for some of our most threatened species.
Cockatoo documentary a call to action
Western Australia’s peak environmental group is calling for an end to the destruction of critical cockatoo habitat by logging and land clearing, following the airing of a revealing documentary last night on the plight of WA’s endangered Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo.
The film, titled On a Wing and a Prayer and broadcast to a national audienceon ABC1 last night, profiled the efforts of Senior Wildlife Investigator Rick Dawson and a small family of Carnaby’s Black Cockatoos at a high risk nesting site Mr Dawson calls ‘The Stump’.
Radioactive waste laws dumping on States’ rights to appeal
WA’s peak environment and sustainability group has voiced its concern over new laws pushed through Federal parliament today that remove states’ rights to appeal the dumping of radioactive waste in local communities.
Earlier today Federal Minister for Resources Martin Ferguson tabled the National Radioactive Waste Management Bill (NRWMB), which has been debated in the Senate for close to two year, is a cut and paste law from the Howard Government.
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