Understorey: Right Relationship with Home 1

For 2021 World Wildlife Day, as more reports emerge of ecosystems collapsing around us, the Conservation Council of WA, with its 100+ member organisations, shows the way forward in their policy document, “A Bold Vision For Conservation, Climate and Communities in WA.”

The WA environment movement is collectively seeking to inspire the next state government to achieve  • 350,000 clean jobs by 2025   • Halved carbon pollution by 2030   • 700% renewable energy by 2040   • 2,500 conservation partnerships by 2025   • 1% of Gross State Product invested in conservation   • Zero loss of endangered wildlife habitat by 2022   • 10 million hectares of revegetation and carbon farming by 2025   • one million hectares of forest protected for nature and climate by 2025.

We hear Piers Verstegen, the Director of WA’s Conservation Council; Jess Beckerling the convenor and campaign director of WA’s Forest Alliance; Paul Gamblin from Protect Ningaloo; and Patrick Gardner from WA’s Wilderness Society.

Photo: Elizabeth PO’