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 the cover of night, they lay their eggs in the sand, giving birth to a new generation as their cycle of life continues.

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 as a result of pollution-induced climate change.

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 profits of Chevron.

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 and Australian Governments to join the new United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

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 potential win for jobs and the environment.

2017 has been a huge year, with some tough times and some incredible celebrations for our environment and communities. Let's take a moment to reflect on what we have done together.

At the beginning of this year, you might have been fighting to stop the bulldozers in the Beeliar Wetlands, putting up a yard sign, lobbying your election candidates to support a Frack Free Future, or feeling anger as both Liberal and Labor rejected a Renewable Energy Target for WA.

For those who don’t know or haven’t been to visit this amazing place in the Kaprun Nation, it is one of the last Banded Ironstone Formation (BIF) Ranges that remains completely untouched by mining, and a biodiversity jewel in the Mid West.

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, and signalling the protection of the area as a Class A Nature Reserve.

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 the Barrow Island LNG project shows that Chevron are not taking climate change or their regulatory responsibilities seriously, according to the Conservation Council of WA (CCWA).

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 today and will provide a permanent ban on fracking in the South West, Perth, and Peel regions, and a statewide moratorium until 2020.