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Introduction

Northern Territory is home to some of Australia's wildest and best intact natural heritage. The Jabiluka campaign to stop expanded uranium mining in Kakadu National Park was fought and won in cooperation with local indigenous owners. Northern Australia is is one The Wilderness Society's key WildCountry campaigns with land clearing on the Daly River, NT being a key immediate focus of the campaign. See the campaign section on WildCountry and the subtopic Cape to Kimberley for further info on the Daly. Currently The Wilderness Soceity does not have a campaign centre in NT but works with local environmental groups to support protection of NT's special places.   

Great news for the Daly River

	The Northern Territory's beautiful Daly River - S Blanch, WWF

In great news for the Daly River, The Northern Territory Government announced on Wednesday 12 December that it will protect the Daly River from land clearing for another two years.

As the eyes of the world focus on the climate change negotiations in Bali, the Daly decision recognises the folly of land clearing proposals that would increase the release of carbon in the atmosphere.

Thank you to everyone who signed the cyberaction calling for the protection of the beautiful Daly River.

Your help has saved the Daly from the threat of land clearing for two more years. The campaign will continue until we see permanent protection for the Daly River as a Living River, as promised by the Northern Territory Government in 2005, when it placed a moratorium on the Daly River catchment to protect it from land clearing.

Read the media release here

The end of the Jabiluka Uranium Mine - campaign update

The Wilderness Society has welcomed the announcement that the mine decline (the hole) at Jabiluka will be filled and rehabilitated. The 50,000 tonnes of uranium ore which was brought to the surface during construction of Jabiluka will be put back under ground. The uranium ore has been causing great water management difficulties and expense, since it has been sitting on the suface, just as environment groups and scientists had warned it would (even before construction began).    more »

Uranium mining within the ecological confines of Kakadu World Heritage Area

Excerpt from Wilderness Society Submission to the Australian Senate 'Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts References Committee' Inquiry into the Environmental Regulation of Uranium Mining.    more »

Northern Australia Campaign Underway

In late May, environmentalists from around Australia converged on sleepy Darwin to discuss the formation of a campaign alliance to protect the magnificent wildcountry of Northern Australia.    more »

Daly River protection has national significance

The Wilderness Society says that the decision by the Northern Territory Government to maintain a ban on landclearing in the Daly River catchment was of national importance and sent a clear message to those wanting to move irrigation and agriculture to northern Australia.    more »

Disgrace: Northern Territory Government rides roughshod over the Supreme Court and Indigenous traditional owners

The Wilderness Society is appalled that the NT Government has ridden roughshod over due process and today rushed through legislation to allow the destructive McArthur River mine expansion to proceed.    more »

Protest at Perth corporate AGM over destruction of native forests on NT's Tiwi Islands

Protesters gathered at the AGM of Perth-based Great Southern Plantations (GSP) Ltd to challenge the company over its destructive forestry operation on the Tiwi Islands north of Darwin.    more »

Appalling decision by NT Government to approve McArthur River mine

The Wilderness Society condemns the Northern Territory’s recent approval for a massive expansion of the McArthur River Mine which entails a diversion of NT's McArthur River for at least 5 kilometres.    more »

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