Western Australia
Karijini National Park in the west Pilbara region, a small part of vast wild landscapes in WA. The largest state in Australia also has the most wild country. From the fantastic landscapes of the Kimberley, to one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots in the south west botanical province, WA contains some of the best of planet Earth. Australia’s biggest woodland is the incredibly diverse Great Western Woodlands, stretching from the rabbit-proof fence to the Nullarbor. Our Perth office is working to protect this global treasure. We helped protect the old growth forests of the south coast, and now we want to help connect them, across a thousand kilometres, to the Great Western Woodlands through the ambitious, multi-group effort of Gondwana Link.
Volunteers and activists were crucial to The Wilderness Society WA’s success in stopping old-growth logging, protecting Ningaloo Reef and banning GMO’s. Find out how you can help.
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East of the Rabbit Proof Fence and south of Kalgoorlie, in the heart of southern Western Australia, is one of the largest temperate woodlands left on Earth.
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WA is home to rich and diverse marine habitats – from the cool sponge gardens of the South to the tropical coral of the North. Yet less than 3% of this natural beauty and diversity is currently protected.
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Western Australia Updates
- The Mitchell Plateau Region (north Kimberley) – Under threat - July 23, 2008
- Burning native forests for power - a lifeline to the woodchippers - July 16, 2008
- Crunch time for the Kimberley - June 11, 2008
The Mitchell/Lawley Rivers Region (Ngauwudu) is a distinct landscape in the north-west Kimberley: a landscape of beauty and diversity that is absolutely unique. Both the environmental and cultural values are of World Heritage significance - and both are currently under threat.
Native forest bioenergy: bad for climate change and bad for our forests. In response to diminishing global demand for native forest woodchips, Australia’s native forest logging industry is pushing a particularly destructive power generation option.
Years of neglect and mismanagement have created major environmental problems for the Kimberley region of northern WA, but even bigger threats are now looming over the region, in the form of plans for large scale gas, mining and agricultural industrialisation.
Western Australia Events
- Wilderness Action Group WA
If you’re interested in finding out about The Wilderness Society, conservation, activism or WA's vast and amazing wild places, come along to one of our weekly meetings (Wilderness Action Group).
Western Australia Media Releases
- Minister’s strategy for protecting WA’s vulnerable fish ‘too watered-down to work’ - June 25, 2008
- WA's greenhouse gas emissions contiue to rise unabated - June 26, 2008
- Scientists reveal Western Australia's global natural treasure on World Environment Day - June 25, 2008
The Wilderness Society WA is disappointed with Fisheries Minister Jon Ford’s final decision on the strategy to save some of Western Australia’s most sought-after and iconic oceanic fish species.
The latest official figures for WA’s greenhouse gas emissions (1990-2006), released yesterday by the Federal Department of Climate Change, paint a very disturbing picture.
A new study released today on World Environment Day has found that Western Australia has the largest, healthiest temperate woodlands remaining on Earth.
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