Community groups and scientists have joined forces in a bid to save one of Perth’s most significant roosting sites for threatened Red Tailed Black Cockatoos, which they say is under imminent threat from an...

The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) has welcomed a statement from Fisheries Minister Dave Kelly, confirming that the McGowan Government would maintain an evidence based approach to shark safety.

In our throwaway society, advertisers tell us that we love to shop. To acquire new things, we often have to ditch old possessions when space becomes an issue. We make excuses when something "just...

What an incredible month! Whether you were part of our General Meeting, Environment Matters, film night to Protect Ningaloo - or something else - there were plenty of ways to protect our wildlife and...

The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) has welcomed the announcement that the McGowan Government will allow carbon farming trials on pastoral leases in Western Australia’s vast rangelands, as a step towards an emerging clean...

Wow - March has been a marathon of submissions and petitions, and you really made your mark! Whether you expressed your thoughts on fracking, the upcoming plastic ban, or protecting our forests, you’re part...

I don’t think I’m overstating it when I say that the scourge of single use plastics have become akin to the scourge of smoking. We know how dangerous it is, yet our addiction to...

Again we are fortunate to visit the magnifcent Karlkun Karlkun Karlamilyi River with the Martu people fighting against Canadian company, Cameco proposing a uranium mine at Kintyre.

From Mulga Rocks we travelled to Leonora and met with members from the community that say to a radioactive waste dump in Leonora and no to uranium mining at Yeelirrie.

With submissions due to the WA Fracking Inquiry by midnight tonight, Western Australian scientists and experts including hydrogeologists, geologists, public health experts, and biologists are warning of the threats that the industry poses to...

On the anniversary of Fukushima we travelled an amazing journey from Kalgoorlie to stay with Lawrence at Pinjan Station.

  All may not be as it seems with the state’s most controversial road project. The fateful decision to begin clearing endangered Banksia woodland surrounding the Beeliar Wetlands in the weeks leading up to...

The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) and members of the Tjiwarl Native Title group have announced the filing of an appeal against the Supreme Court’s recent decision which upheld the environmental approval for the...

Tim Winton’s book The Boy Behind the Curtain has won the non-fiction category of the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature for 2018.  The biennial awards were announced on Saturday 3 March as part of...

It’s been a high stakes month for our environment and wildlife, and people like you have demonstrated incredible determination and resilience. No matter where you live, you have made a strong stand for our...

Western Australia’s peak environment group today congratulated Planning Minister Rita Saffioti for making a responsible decision to reject the Mangles Bay canal-marina development, which responds to the community and protects the environment.

  Chevron’s pollution permits show Commonwealth climate policy a sham - WA Government must step in to control pollution

In an urgent open letter to the WA Environment Minister Stephen Dawson, scientists and experts from all over Australia have warned that WA’s best loved colony of Little Penguins on Penguin Island could be...

Conservation groups and Tjiwarl Traditional Owners have vowed to continue the fight against uranium mining at Yeelirrie in the Northern Goldfields, despite today’s news that their Supreme Court action to halt the mine had...

What an incredible start to 2018! Together we have hit the ground running, taking action and holding events all over the state to protect our penguins, turtles, forests, and wildlife from a range of...

For millennia, sea turtles have been making an incredible journey. The ancient creatures swim thousands of kilometers, returning to their place of birth at Barrow Island off the Pilbara coast every year. Quietly, under...

Western Australia’s peak environment group has renewed its call for Chevron to control its spiralling carbon pollution, saying the company’s own monitoring shows the sex of baby turtles born on Barrow Island is changing...

The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) has said that Mike Nahan and the WA Liberal opposition should get their facts straight and put the interests of Western Australians and the environment ahead of the...

Today the Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) will join community members in welcoming the Japanese Peace Boat’s 96th voyage, which is its first voyage to Fremantle. The national tour is calling on the Japanese...