Conservation groups have welcomed the announcement of climate and renewable energy targets by Federal Labor leader Bill Shorten today, but warned that a decision by the WA Government to allow fracking would undermine the...

A historic alliance has seen the state’s peak environment group join forces with four wheel drive associations at the Perth 4WD and Adventure Show this weekend.

Some of Australia’s most prominent voices including Paul Kelly, Jimmy Barnes, John Butler, Peter Garrett, Missy Higgins, Tim Winton, Fiona Stanley, Janet Holmes a Court, Carmen Lawrence and Peter Newman have united in a...

The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) has strongly welcomed the announcement from the McGowan Government that part of the Roe 8 highway reserve through the Beeliar Wetlands will be rezoned from ‘Road Reserve’ to...

Western Australia’s peak environment group has congratulated Energy Minister Ben Wyatt, Western Power, and Synergy on the Powerbank Battery Trial that will allow households to access remote battery storage for excess energy generated by...

The state’s peak environment group has renewed its call for WA’s biggest polluter to comply with Ministerial Conditions on its giant Gorgon LNG processing facility, saying that its refusal to ‘offset’ its carbon pollution...

Environment groups have renewed their call for protection of South West native forests to generate carbon credits and protect wildlife – a move which independent research suggests would be more profitable than the current...

More than fifty of Australia’s top scientists and experts have delivered an open letter to the WA Government today, calling for a permanent ban on gas fracking to prevent a massive increase in carbon...

Western Australia’s peak conservation organisation has renewed its call on the McGowan Government to implement its election commitment to “strengthen the Biodiversity Conservation Act” to prevent the extinction of some of WA’s most iconic...

Environment groups have renewed calls for an urgent transition of the South West forest industry, as set out by the Forests For Life plan to protect wildlife habitat and timber industry jobs, and to...

Conservation groups have called on the McGowan Government to keep its pre-election promises on fracking and to release the final report of the Fracking Inquiry, which was handed to Government yesterday.

Western Australia’s peak conservation organisation has welcomed the appointment of regional WA-based MP Melissa Price to the role of Australia’s Minister for the Environment, calling on the new Minister to take a science-based approach...

WA’s peak environment group has welcomed the release of a new Climate Change Policy Statement by WA Local Governments. Endorsed by the WA Local Government Association’s State Council last week, the statement calls for urgent action,...

Conservation efforts to protect the charismatic but threatened Fairy Tern are about to receive a boost with the release of a new edition of the Western Australian Fairy Tern Conservation Guide by the Conservation...

The Conservation Council of WA has warned that very large increases in carbon pollution from LNG gas processing in WA were driving Australia’s emissions to record levels, and risking Australia’s international obligations under the...

Conservation groups have congratulated the McGowan Government on the lightweight plastic bag ban coming into force yesterday, as a significant step towards tackling WA’s plastic pollution.

Gas pollution problem is costing jobs and harming the environment Conservation groups have responded to the announcement that the Chevron Wheatstone LNG project has reached a milestone, by releasing images of pollution and gas...

Analysis of the WA State Budget and what it means for the environment

The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) has welcomed a review of conditions imposed on WA’s largest polluter to control carbon pollution from the giant Gorgon LNG facility on Barrow Island.

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.

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...

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...

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...