Preserve Gnarabup FAQs
What is the Conservation Council of WA calling for?
CCWA’s purpose is to promote conservation of the natural environment, environmental protection and sustainability throughout Western Australia.
CCWA has previously provided a submission to the Environmental Protection Authority on the Environmental Scoping Document for the Gnarabup Tourism Development. CCWA’s response to the Gnarabup Environmental Review Document will reinforce and expand on this previous submission.
Ultimately, this development poses unacceptable impacts and risks to the environment. We need to protect the places we love, while we still have them. We need to be a voice for nature.
What is Preserve Gnarabup
Preserve Gnarabup is one of the many community environment organisations that the Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) represents across Western Australia.
Formed in 2020, the Preserve Gnarabup campaign is run by a small group of committed individuals who are part of the Surfrider Foundation South West Branch. The campaign builds on more than 30 years of opposition by local people to protect and preserve the natural coastal headland in Gnarabup for future generations.
How will making a public comment make a difference
This community consultation period is a key way the public can have a say on this development proposal. Submissions made will shape decisions made by the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA).
Following the Public Environmental Review processes, the EPA assesses the information it has and decides whether in its view
- The environmental impacts of the development can be managed and mitigated and the development can proceed, or
- That the impacts can be managed with special conditions/changes or
- That the environmental impacts cannot be managed satisfactorily.
The EPA then makes a recommendation to the Minister for the Environment who has the final say on whether to allow the development or not.
CCWA is a voice for nature in WA and it will be making a submission with the position that the development poses unacceptable impacts and risks to the environment. Writing your own submission will help to make a collective statement. Western Australians deeply value the natural environment, our distinctive landscapes and care for our unique wildlife.
Making a public comment will also show the small local community group—Preserve Gnarabup—that WA will show up to #PreserveGnarabup. Gnarabup is irreplaceable, it's too precious to lose.
It’s quick and easy to make a submission!
How do I write my own submission
If you’d like to make a submission but don’t know where to start, the Gnarabup community group, Preserve Gnarabup, have put together a helpful guide, designed to support you.
Using the template provided and using key concerns listed by the Preserve Gnarabup as inspiration it takes a couple of minutes to write a submission.