In response to Woodside’s 2025 Annual Report released today, the Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) said taking pride in a ‘year of record production’ while climate change wreaks havoc on Western Australians was damning.

A commitment today by the state government to review the Biodiversity Conservation Act (BC) 2016 has been welcomed by the Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) as a critical step forward for nature.

Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt published a ‘statement of reasons’ yesterday, outlining why he granted Alcoa an 18-month exemption to continue mining in WA’s Northern Jarrah Forest, despite being found to have cleared land...

The End Forest Mining (EFM) alliance has called an agreement reached with the Australian Government and US mining giant Alcoa to pay $55 million to “remediate historical land clearing” without approval as “a slap on the wrist”. 

The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) said the unprecedented level of public concern about Black Mountain Energy’s (BME) Kimberley fracking project was a clear indication that West Australians do not want it to go...

On January 26, a rally in Boorloo/Perth to commemorate Invasion Day was targeted by an act of hate and terror. 

The Conservation Council of WA has welcomed the cancellation of a Santos offshore gas exploration license near the pristine Rowley Shoals coral atolls, 260-300km west of Broome.

The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) has slammed the state government’s approval of a five-star luxury resort in Gnarabup today as a total failure of process and a disappointing outcome – particularly for communities in the south west. 

A Freedom of Information (FOI) request has confirmed the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority Board (BGPA) was in the process of finalising an agreement for US mining giant Alcoa to be a diamond sponsor of the Everlasting...

In response to Woodside’s Fourth Quarter results released today, the Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) said taking pride in a ‘year of record production’ while climate change wreaks havoc on Australians was a bitter pill to...

The state-wide ban on demersal fishing is a necessary and important step in protecting species recovery into the future but will be seriously undermined by approvals for seismic blasting to explore for new gas reserves in key spawning areas.

The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) is calling for the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (DWER) to release any findings into an alleged breach of a mining Exemption Order by Alcoa in WA’s Northern Jarrah Forest.

The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) said the state government’s announcement to extend the State Agreement for Griffin Coal until 2031 is keeping the dirtiest fossil fuel on life support at the expense of...

Community groups are stunned and outraged, vowing to ramp up pressure on the Cook Government after Western Australia’s EPA recommended the first fracking project in the state since Labor lifted the moratorium in 2019...

Alcoa was granted an Exemption Order in December 2023 to allow its bauxite strip mining activities to continue in the Northern Jarrah Forest while its Mining Management Plan was under review by the WA state government.

The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) has called on the WA Government to pull its head out of the sand and pay attention to the grim findings in the latest Extinction Wrapped Report by the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF). 

The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) has told the federal government’s inquiry into oil and gas decommissioning that the fossil fuel industry must stop evading its responsibility to clean up after themselves in Western Australian waters.

A Santos proposal to drill for gas off the north west coast of Western Australia poses major risks to the state’s most iconic reefs from oil or other hydrocarbon spills, the Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) has warned. 

Environment groups have called on the WA Environment Minister to reject a five-star luxury resort that would remove critical habitat and threaten the endangered western ringtail possum and Carnaby's Black Cockatoo. 

The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO)’s projected gas shortfalls for Western Australia demonstrate the urgent need to accelerate WA’s renewable transition and prioritise domestic energy security over international gas exports.

Multinational gas giant Chevron today announced its final investment decision in stage-three of its Gorgon gas project, meaning it will ship millions more tonnes of Australian gas overseas every year and further fuel the climate crisis. 

Op-Ed by Matt Roberts, Executive Director of Conservation Council of WA This op-ed featured in WAToday here. This week we saw our Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt in Western Australia, promising a “secret Santa”...

The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) has called on the Federal Liberal Party to continue with a target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, and not be led by the Nationals’ radical decision...

New federal nature law reforms introduced into Parliament today do not go far enough to create the real protections nature needs according to the Conservation Council of WA (CCWA).