Northern Australia
The greatest savanna wildernesss on Earth Northern Australia is one of the last great wild places on Earth, and the largest and most intact tropical savannah anywhere. Stretching 2,500 km, from the Kimberley region in Western Australia across to Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland, it forms a vast arc of forests, woodlands, wild rivers and monsoonal wetlands. But the decline of many bird populations, invasion of exotic animals, the threat of climate change and a wave of proposals to expand irrigated farming, land clearing, mining and dams has left one of the world's greatest wilderness areas on the verge of devastating change.
Australia's irreplaceable Cape York Peninsula is one of the last great wild places on Earth. The Wilderness Society is campaigning to protect the wild rivers and World Heritage values of this remarkable place.
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The Top End of the Northern Territory is home to some of Australia’s best known and loved places including the magnificent Kakadu National Park. In the Top End, The Wilderness Society is campaigning to protect the beautiful Daly River.
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The rugged wilderness coastline of the Kimberley is known throughout the world. The Wilderness Society is campaigning to protect the Kimberly from proposals to massively industrialise the Kimberley coastline.
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Northern Australia Updates
- Help protect the Tiwi Islands from land clearing - August 22, 2008
- Working together to save the Kimberley's whales - September 05, 2008
- NT Election wrap-up - August 14, 2008
The Tiwi Islands are a tropical paradise whose forests and wildlife are being destroyed for woodchips. If Stage 2 is approved by the Northern Territory and Commonwealth Governments, approximately 1/8 of the Islands will be destroyed in Northern Australia’s single biggest land clearing operation.
Few Australians realise the maternity ward for the group IV population of the endangered Humpback whale is located off the remote wilderness coast of the Kimberley region. Community groups, Scientists and Conservationists are working together to save the Kimberley whales habitat.
The Northern Territory election, held on Saturday 9th of August, ended up a cliff hanger. The returned Labor Government has promised to maintain a moratorium on land clearing in the Daly River region and to order a full and public assessment of the environmental, social and economic implications of any further landclearing in the Tiwi Islands.
Northern Australia Media Releases
- New Northern Australia Taskforce urged to reject extreme development plans - September 26, 2008
- Bligh on the environment: broad targets welcome, but details and action required - September 08, 2008
- Barnett's Kimberley industry plans threaten Humpback whale Sanctuary - August 12, 2008
The Wilderness Society calls on the new Northern Australia Land and Water Taskforce, launched today in Broome by the Commonwealth Government, to reject outright foolhardy schemes to move agriculture and irrigation into northern Australia.
The Wilderness Society Queensland welcomes the climate change and environment targets announced by Premier Anna Bligh but has called for more detail about how these targets will be met.
The Wilderness Society WA has expressed grave concern that recent statements by Opposition leader Colin Barnett promoting the industrialisation of the Kimberley could lead to the demise of the region’s newly discovered Humpback whale sanctuary.
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