West Australians will be given an opportunity to have their say on a controversial mining expansion which endangers the state’s native forests and would cause unacceptable levels of carbon pollution.

CCWA’s Citizen Science team was back in the field at the end of May - this time surveying the biodiversity values of a property in Bowgada, located in the Shire of Perenjori (Badimia country) and part of the Yarra Yarra catchment in the Mid West region of WA.

By Mia Pepper, CCWA Nuclear Free Campaigner

You may have seen in the news that the new leader of the Nationals David Littleproud and new Shadow Minister for Climate and Energy Ted O’Brien are stoking the fires of a nuclear power debate. This is not a new debate - it’s one we’ve had across Australia for decades, as a delaying tactic for acting on climate change. And the answers haven’t changed.

CCWA’s latest Citizen Science programme - Living with Nature - has begun with a busy May weekend in Karakin, a peri-urban suburb approximately 120km north of Perth on Yued Noongar country. 

Woodside has been bombarded with questions from shareholders, environment and conservation experts and Traditional Custodians from WA’s north west at its Annual General meeting, in Perth.

The Northern Jarrah Forest – a biodiversity hotspot which rivals the world’s tropical rainforests – is on the brink of ecological collapse according to a new report.

Comments by Woodside CEO, Meg O’Neill – published this morning in the Australian Financial Review – have been slammed by the Conservation Council of WA, which has described calls to ‘kick-start’ stalled gas projects as “tone deaf”.

CCWA’s Citizen Science program for 2022 is off to a flying start!

The Conservation Council of WA (CCWA) has rubbished today's announcement by Woodside Petroleum, that it plans to pursue a 'carbon capture and utilisation' facility in Perth.

Conservationists are celebrating another successful breeding season for one of WA’s most iconic and vulnerable species as efforts continue to protect the Australian Fairy Tern.