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Use the hyperlinks to navigate around this page The Kimberley - Beautiful, Unique, Threatened
WA Uranium Free Campaign
Land Clearing - Our changing landscape
Protect the Banded Ironstone Formation Ranges (BIF) - Threatened Islands of the Outback
Say No to GMO!
Protect the Exmouth Gulf - Halt the Salt!
The Kimberley - Beautiful, Unique, Threatened
The Kimberley coast in northern Western Australia is one of the last great wilderness areas on Earth. The region is internationally recognised for its unspoilt marine and coastal environments including islands, coral reefs, mangroves, rainforests and rivers, home to a variety of wildlife including endangered whales, turtles, dugong and rare snubfin dolphins.
The region's ruggedness and isolation have protected it to some extent from human impact and as a result has outstanding natural values. But the unspolit wilderness is currently under threat from large scale industrial development.
Read more back to top Land Clearing - Our changing landscape
Land clearing is a serious threat to the sustainability of our natural resources that can lead to adverse problems such as salinisation, soil erosion, eutrophication, increased gas emissions and loss of aesthetic qualities. Illegal landclearing and further loss of native vegetation in Western Australia must be stopped.
Read more back to top Protect the Banded Ironstone Formation Ranges (BIF) - Threatened Islands of the Outback
The Banded Ironstone Formation (BIF) ranges of the Midwest and Yilgarn are scattered across the WA outback from Kalgoorlie in the South to as far north as the Murchison River. In the flat arid plains of the outback landscape these hills have often become scenic landscape features that have acted like islands; evolving their own unique biodiversity.
The Conservation Council of WA is calling for immediate conservation of this magnificant part of the Western Australian outback.
Read more back to top Say No to GMO!
The Conservation Council of WA has joined other concerned groups in a public awareness campaign to stop GM crops from being commercially grown in WA. The campaign aims to highlight:
1. Human health concerns
2. Consumer choice issues
3. The need to extend the moratorium on GM crops beyond 2008.
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Protect the Exmouth Gulf - Halt the Salt!
On the 22nd of October a campaign to “Halt the Salt” was launched by a unique alliance including Conservation Council of WA, Recfishwest, MG Kailis Group and the Western Australian Fishing Industry Council (WAFIC). The Gallop Government is considering allowing one of the World’s largest salt mines to be established along the edge of Exmouth Gulf, one of the nation’s most biologically productive environments. The project being proposed by Straits Resources was of a size previously unheard of in Western Australia and could have impacts on an ecosystem scale. The salt mine would cover an area more than 40,000 hectares - extending for over 65 kilometres long and over 10 kilometers wide in places!
Further information:
Web: www.haltthesalt.orgEmail: conswa@conservationwa.asn.au
Ph: (08) 9420 7266
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Last Updated ( Friday, 06 November 2009 )
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