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Updated: May 25, 2012
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The Kimberley
The Kimberley region of northern WA is one of the world’s great natural and Indigenous cultural regions. Its vast savannah landscapes, wild rivers, extensive wetlands, spectacular coast and rich marine environments provide a multitude of habitats that are home to an extraordinary diversity of species. Incredibly, the far north-west Kimberley sub-region is the only part of Western Australia, and one of very few in Australia, that appears to have retained its complete native fauna species diversity without extinction since European settlement.
Kimberley Updates
- World Turtle Day 2012 Success - May 24, 2012
- Corporate responsibility for Barnett’s folly - May 19, 2012
- Locals residents protest gas development - May 18, 2012
- We love Broome! - May 17, 2012
For World Turtle Day in 2012, hundreds of people from around Australia hit their local beaches in support of more protection for our sea turtles feeding and breeding grounds across northern Australia's seas. Download a copy of this year's poster of all the events from around the country!
This week, the Government of Western Australia dispatched approximately 200 police officers to the sleepy tourism town of Broome to do the dirty work for several of the world’s largest oil and gas companies.
Two Broome women, aged in their sixties, have taken an extraordinarily brave step to stop work on Woodside's planned industrial complex on the Kimberley coast. Ali Batten and Julie Weguelin, both pensioners, have chained themselves to a vehicle blocking the access road to James Price Point.
Thank you to the hundreds of supporters from all over the country who joined in activities on our National Day of Action for the Kimberley, in solidarity with the people of Broome. Watch the video here.
Kimberley Events
- World Environment Day 2012: Think Outside the City Block - May 11, 2012
- Broome Families say NO to the Gas Hub - May 24, 2012
- Kimberley Culture Fest, Adelaide - December 02, 2011
Hundreds of people will join hands around one of Melbourne CBD’s 1 hectare city blocks on World Environment Day as a measure of the threat to our forests, oceans and wild places from logging and mining. When: 1pm, Tuesday 5 June 2012, Melbourne CBD, Where: Corner of Bourke and Elizabeth Streets (bottom of Bourke St Mall)
Show your love for Broome! Join Broome families at a peaceful gathering to tell the world that "Broome does not want a gas hub on its doorstep!" When: 10am. Saturday 9 June, 2012 Where: Nicholas Emo Centre (on the Catholic Church grounds)
On Saturday 10th December, the glory of the Kimberley coastline will be arriving in Adelaide in the form of the Kimberley Culture Festival. Come along to Elder Park from 3-8pm for information about the Kimberley, guest speakers, food, stalls and live music. Free entry!
