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...

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.

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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...

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...

The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) has welcomed a review of conditions to control greenhouse gas pollution from Chevron’s Wheatstone LNG project - Western Australia’s largest pollution source – saying the review is a...

The state’s peak environment group the Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) has congratulated Environment Minister Stephen Dawson and the McGowan Government for today’s announcement rejecting the mining proposal for the Helena and Aurora Range,...

5 million tonne pollution problem shows Chevron not taking climate change obligations seriously The admission by Chevron today that millions of tons of extra carbon pollution will be released due to ‘technical difficulties’ at...

Western Australia’s peak environment body the Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) and the Frack Free Future alliance have welcomed the McGowan Government’s Petroleum and Geothermal Energy Resources (Hydraulic Fracturing) Regulations 2017, which were gazetted...

Western Australia’s peak conservation group has congratulated the Minister for the Environment the Hon Stephen Dawson for upholding EPA recommendations to protect Banded Ironstone Ranges from mining, by dismissing appeals on two BIF mining...

The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) has welcomed the news that the Barnett Government’s State Agreement with fracking companies in the Kimberley will be terminated, describing the move as a win for communities and...

LiveLighter Spring Eco Fest 2017 has begun in Forrest Place, and there’s an action-packed day ahead.

The Conservation Council of WA is encouraging the public to make submissions to the WA Fracking Inquiry, following today’s release of a Background and Issues Paper which identifies serious environmental, social, economic, and health...

Leading energy and climate economist Professor Ross Garnaut has outlined a plan for Western Australia to lead the world as a clean energy superpower, by adopting a state-based Emissions Intensity Scheme.

Environment groups have released a joint statement calling on the McGowan Government to undertake a major review of the Strategic Assessment of the Perth and Peel Regions (SAPPR), released in draft form by the...

A Conservation Council community monitoring network has recorded more than eighty otherwise healthy adult Flesh-footed Shearwaters washed up dead on Goode and Fisheries beaches on the western side of King George Sound in Albany.

WA’s peak conservation group has strongly backed the EPA’s calls for a review of the WA Government’s climate change policy and action on land clearing in the Authority’s Annual Report for 2017.

Western Australia’s peak environment group the Conservation Council of WA welcomes the State Government's proposal to develop a whole-of-government approach to the management of the Abrolhos Islands.

Environment groups have warned that a proposal for a gas fracking project and gas pipeline in the Kimberley would face intense opposition from community and conservation groups.

The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) and the Plastic Free WA alliance have welcomed the confirmation by the McGowan Government that a statewide ban on single use plastic shopping bags will be in place...

Sustainable transport and renewable energy are featured in the McGowan Government’s first budget, which also includes funding for new protected areas in the Kimberley, a substantial Aboriginal Ranger program, and a 10c recycling refund...