CCWA’s Citizen Science team was back in the field at the end of May - this time surveying the biodiversity values of a property in Bowgada, located in the Shire of Perenjori (Badimia country)...

  The Conservation Council of WA has congratulated the WA State Government on its decision to close the remaining Collie coal fired power stations by 2029.

  The President of the Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) and the first woman to hold the position of state premier in Australia has been recognised in this year's Queen's Birthday honours list as...

By Mia Pepper, CCWA Nuclear Free Campaigner You may have seen in the news that the new leader of the Nationals David Littleproud and new Shadow Minister for Climate and Energy Ted O’Brien are...

CCWA’s latest Citizen Science programme - Living with Nature - has begun with a busy May weekend in Karakin, a peri-urban suburb approximately 120km north of Perth on Yued Noongar country. 

Woodside has been bombarded with questions from shareholders, environment and conservation experts and Traditional Custodians from WA’s north west at its Annual General meeting, in Perth.

WA’s peak conservation and environment group has responded to the WA State Government’s 2022 budget announcement, expressing concern over the continued use of public money to support fossil fuel projects, across the state.

The Northern Jarrah Forest – a biodiversity hotspot which rivals the world’s tropical rainforests – is on the brink of ecological collapse according to a new report.

Comments by Woodside CEO, Meg O’Neill – published this morning in the Australian Financial Review – have been slammed by the Conservation Council of WA, which has described calls to ‘kick-start’ stalled gas projects...

CCWA’s Citizen Science program for 2022 is off to a flying start!

With the Federal Election just weeks away, a growing number of West Aussies are joining a community campaign to put climate change - and climate action - at the centre of the conversation.

Today the Traditional Owners of the Yeelirrie area the Conservation Council of WA and the Australian Conservation Foundation have welcomed another milestone in the 50 year-long campaign to stop uranium mining at Yeelirrie.

  Environment groups are troubled by recent merger between WA uranium hopeful Vimy Resources and Deep Yellow. The Mulga Rock uranium project east of Kalgoorlie is now under the leadership of a team with...

The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) has rubbished today's announcement by Woodside Petroleum, that it plans to pursue a 'carbon capture and utilisation' facility in Perth.

Conservationists are celebrating another successful breeding season for one of WA’s most iconic and vulnerable species as efforts continue to protect the Australian Fairy Tern.  

Traditional Owners and conservationists say that a decision by the Federal Government to intervene over a controversial urea plant, proposed for sacred Aboriginal sites, shows that the cultural heritage approvals process is unfit for...

  Following the handing down of a decision in the Supreme Court of Western Australia this morning (1 March 2022) - in the case of Conservation Council of WA Inc v Chairman, Environmental Protection...

WA’s peak conservation body has responded to figures released by Woodside Petroleum this morning, calling out ‘glaring omissions’ in the company’s annual report.

Words: Peter Robertson In a major new development, WA’s fragrant and commercially lucrative native sandalwood (Santalum spicatum; dutjahn; willarak) has been added to the IUCN's international threatened species "Red List". Now it’s time to end 175...

Under normal circumstances, the sight of a dozen-or-so torchlit figures stalking silently across a suburban beach, in the dead of night, might be a little concerning.

The controversial Yeelirrie uranium mine in Western Australia is no longer able to proceed after the proponent missed a deadline to commence works at the site in the state’s northern Goldfields.

WA receives almost no royalties from highly polluting gas fields, according to a new report published today.

A new community-led strategy to help protect the threatened Australian Fairy Tern has been launched today.

The company behind a controversial uranium mine proposal in WA’s Goldfields has failed to meet a key environmental approvals deadline, the second such development to fail in the space of two years.