Northern Australia Updates
- Australia the movie launch draws attention to Kimberley threats - November 23, 2008
- A 'new deal' for Cape York Peninsula - November 10, 2008
- The future of The Kimberley is being decided right now - October 22, 2008
- A prosperous future for Cape York - October 13, 2008
- 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
- Australia’s newest National Park! - August 13, 2008
- A chance to save three wild rivers - July 30, 2008
- A plea to stop Tiwi Islands land clearing - July 30, 2008
As the spectacular and pristine Kimberley region is showcased to the world via Baz Luhrmann's film 'Australia', environmentalists, tourism operators, local industry, and many of the area's local Indigenous and Non-Indigenous residents are concerned that the region is in danger of being lost to future generations.
The Wilderness Society has launched the Cape York Heritage Protection Plan as a blue print for coordinated, strategic and funded action for Cape York’s future.
WA’s unique Kimberley region is now the focus of major state, national and international conservation concern and action. The planned development of the Browse Basin gas field threatens to open the floodgates to other large-scale developments. These development plans could wreak havoc in one of the last large unspoiled marine and coastal environments on earth.
A World Heritage nomination for Cape York Peninsula will help shape a healthy and prosperous future by integrating the needs of communities with the needs of nature, creating real jobs and a sustainable futures, while conserving the superlative natural and cultural values of the region.
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.
On Wednesday, 6 August 2008, the Kulla National Park was created. The new National Park, on Cape York Peninsula, protects 160 000 hectares of irreplaceable wild country - including the largest remaining tract of wilderness tropical rainforest in Australia.
A window of opportunity to protect Cape York’s precious wild rivers has just opened. The Queensland and Commonwealth Governments are now pursuing a World Heritage listing for Cape York. Learn how you can make a difference by supporting these first three protection proposals.
In 2005, the Northern Territory Parks and Conservation Master Plan identified that all of the Tiwi’s contained conservation values of international significance for biodiversity. For this reason, the Tiwi’s are of immense conservation importance.
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