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Call for a Moratorium on Gas Fracking Anyone who has seen the news about coal seam gas in the Eastern States, or seen the Oscar-nominated US documentary Gasland will know just how damaging the gas fracking industry has been in other parts of the world. But if you think gas fracking is not happening in WA, think again.
 
WA's endangered wildlife is suffering Western Australia’s endangered wildlife is right now under attack by state-sanctioned loggers working for the Forest Products Commission. Loggers have moved into some of the last high-conservation forest left in the South West.
 
Without groundwater in Western Australia we cannot produce food, and our ecosystems cannot survive. Yet the State Government are giving away billions of litres of our precious groundwater for free to the mining industry under a water allocation policy that prioritises mining over the environment and food production.
 
Your rubbish could be earning you cash! Did you know that this year Australians will throw away more than 10 billion recyclable drink containers? When it comes to recycling, WA in particular has the worst track record in the country. Around 80% of drink containers consumed in WA end up in landfill or littering the environment. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
 
The WA Government’s scoping document for forest management over the next decade reveals devastating plans to continue and even increase loss-making logging operations at the expense of numbats, cockatoos and other endangered animals that are already on the brink of extinction. The proposal maps out a disaster for our forests and the many threatened animals that rely on them for survival.
 
Sign the Uranium Free Charter  Don’t let WA become a radioactive quarry and waste dump! Western Australians face a choice about uranium mining. The current push to allow uranium mining is a direct threat to workers’ safety and the long term health of our environment and communities. Uranium mining does not make good economic sense and leaves behind a radioactive legacy.
 
Don't firebomb our forests! This week we have witnessed the devastating impacts of an escaped prescribed burn on the Margaret River Community, but Margaret River residents are not the only ones losing their homes. What we don’t see are the thousands of native animals and plants that are killed every year by the WA Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC's) reckless prescribed burning program.
 
Say no to a copper mine at Horizontal Falls Describedby acclaimed naturalist Sir David Attenborough as ‘one of the greatest natural wonders of the world’, the Kimberley’s Horizontal Falls is a stunning phenomenon created by massive 10-metre tides hurtling through two narrow coastal gorges.
 

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