Banksias play a crucial role in the environment, providing habitat for more than 90 bird species, including Carnaby’s Cockatoos.
The unique collection of plants and animals that make up the Banksia Woodlands ecological community are only found together around the Swan Coastal Plain bioregion of WA.
Once widespread, 50 to 60 per cent of the original banksia woodlands has been cleared since colonisation, with most remaining patches small and fragmented.
This is a Threatened Ecological Community (TEC), now listed as endangered.
The greatest threat to Banksia Woodlands is from clearing and fragmentation for urbanisation or industrial development, such as projects for silica sands excavation.
Sand mining projects, like Arrowsmith North Silica Sand Project (northwest of Eneabba in the Midwest region) and Cougar Sand Supplies (Lake Clifton just south of Perth) are threatening what is left.
Banksia Woodlands need our urgent protection. We need to save our woodlands from being wiped out.
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