Conservation Council of WA

Conservation Council of WA The Conservation Council of WA is Western Australia's peak non-profit, non-government environmental organisation.

Together with our members, we're the state's leading voice for nature and climate action. The Conservation Council of WA is the state’s foremost non-profit, non-government conservation organisation. CCWA has been an outspoken advocate for conservation and a sustainable Western Australia for fifty years, working directly with the government, media, industry, community groups, and political parties

to promote a more sustainable WA and to protect our natural environment. Through advocacy, community engagement, policy development, science, and on-the-ground projects, we help create a sustainable future that all Western Australians can look forward to. As WA’s peak environmental group we represent more than one hundred member groups throughout the state, as well as tens of thousands of individuals. We connect with and amplify the voice of this growing network, which covers diverse aims and interests - from promoting renewable energy to the protection of native bushland and wildlife. CCWA works to promote a clean economy that provides opportunities without polluting the ecosystems that support us, or destroying the culture and beauty that inspires us. We work to protect our wild places and ensure that unique wildlife can thrive in their natural habitat. CCWA works with communities and individuals to build skills, empower groups, and strengthen voices at a local level. We also combine the strength of our network to tackle critical environmental challenges at a much larger scale. From the rugged far north of the Kimberley, to the green forested South West, to our amazing coastline and unique marine life, CCWA speaks for the protection and conservation of all nature in WA. Whether protecting icons such as Ningaloo Reef, creating new National Parks and Marine Sanctuaries, or saving old growth forests, our work leaves an enduring legacy for future generations.

🌿 Community action helped turn a threatened patch of the Swan Estuary into a sanctuary for birds.CCWA recently visited t...
02/09/2026

🌿 Community action helped turn a threatened patch of the Swan Estuary into a sanctuary for birds.

CCWA recently visited the Melville Bird Sanctuary with Friends of MBS to hear more about the story behind the sanctuary, the restoration underway at Point Waylen, and the work still needed to protect its birdlife.

The sanctuary grew from a community-led campaign responding to a proposed Wave Park at Tompkins Park, with years of advocacy helping build support for its establishment.

Today, restoration is continuing across Point Waylen. Around 250 community participants planted 10,000 native trees, shrubs, sedges and groundcovers on National Tree Day, contributing to a long-term target of around 400,000 plants.

There’s still more to do — particularly to protect the local and migratory birds that depend on this habitat — but Melville Bird Sanctuary is a great example of what sustained community advocacy can achieve.

Thanks to Friends of Melville Bird Sanctuary for showing us around. 💚

🎟️ TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE 🎟️This October, we’re heading to the South West for CCWA’s inaugural Regional Gathering: Prot...
01/09/2026

🎟️ TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE 🎟️

This October, we’re heading to the South West for CCWA’s inaugural Regional Gathering: Protect. Restore. Transform.

Join us at Sabina River Farm in Yalyalup on Friday 30 October for a day of connection, learning, collaboration and action, bringing together First Nations voices, conservationists, community leaders, CCWA Member Groups and people working to protect the places we love.

Across the Friday, we’ll explore what it takes to protect Country, restore nature and transform the systems shaping our shared future, through keynote presentations, panel discussions, practical workshops and opportunities to connect. The program celebrates First Nations knowledge and connection to Country, with sessions exploring caring for nature, building community power and the future of bushfire management in the South West.

On Saturday 31 October, choose from one of three optional On Country Tours. Spend time in the places we’re working to protect and hear directly from the people leading this work.

📍 Sabina River Farm, Yalyalup
📅 Friday 30 October + optional On Country Tours Saturday 31 October

Tickets are on sale now: https://events.humanitix.com/2026-regional-gathering

Come together to protect, restore and transform WA.

ICYMI last week:🌳 Our South West forests and the wildlife that rely on them are already facing a grim future after Alcoa...
01/09/2026

ICYMI last week:

🌳 Our South West forests and the wildlife that rely on them are already facing a grim future after Alcoa’s devastating 60-year history of strip-mining for bauxite. Now they’re being pushed closer to the brink in the name of the USA’s military ambitions.

“We’ve heard a lot of talk about the Alcoa US–Australia gallium deal supporting renewable energy production, but that just seems to be another case of greenwashing – this is all about giving the US Department of War what it wants.”

No project, regardless of how ‘critical’ the government might paint it to be, should come at the expense of our environment when there are viable alternatives.

🔗 Read the full media release through the link in our bio.

27/08/2026

Woodside Energy has been labelled “grossly negligent” by the Conservation Council of Western Australia (CCWA) after the company announced plans to abandon its Scope 3 investment and emissions targets.

CCWA Executive Director Matt Roberts said Woodside’s decision to dump targets for reducing emissions released when customers burn the gas it sells was a dereliction of its clean energy obligations.

“These emissions account for about 90% of the company’s total climate impact and to walk away from its responsibility for the global climate carnage inherently caused by its product highlights its profits at all cost approach.

Woodside takes Australian gas for free and exports it overseas, driving up climate pollution and domestic energy prices.

It's time they were held accountable and not allowed to cut and run at a time when the impacts of climate change have never been more prevalent in Australia and around the world."

Read our full release - link in bio.

Protecting WA nature means protecting the habitat species rely on — and refusing to treat extinction as an inevitable co...
26/08/2026

Protecting WA nature means protecting the habitat species rely on — and refusing to treat extinction as an inevitable cost of doing business.

No more extinctions? Kinda chic, actually ✨

26/08/2026

🌿 It’s not too late to change the course of life.

WA is home to extraordinary nature found nowhere else on Earth, but our biodiversity is in crisis and current policy is failing to protect it.

Back from the Brink: A Protection Agenda for Nature is a framework developed collaboratively across the environmental movement to unite our advocacy under one umbrella. It was created to build community power around a shared vision for a future with no more extinctions.

Back from the Brink brings together real-world examples of how policy is failing nature, alongside 36 recommendations for the reforms needed to meaningfully protect and restore WA’s unique places and species.

Through our Voices for Nature video series, we’re sharing conversations from the launch of Back from the Brink about what’s at stake, what needs to change, and what gives us hope for the future of nature in WA.

🌱 Follow the series and learn more about how you can help bring nature back from the brink through the link in our bio.

25/08/2026

Analysis shows a severe oil spill at Scott Reef could be the worst in Australian history, with Woodside labelling the impact of such a spill ‘catastrophic’.

A blowout of this scale could see oil washing up on the Western Australian Kimberley Coast, and affect at least nine marine parks, eight reefs, three Indigenous Protected Areas, and several islands in Australian, Indonesian and Timor Leste waters.

According to analysis by and , Woodside has conceded that the impacts to Scott Reef from a major spill ‘would likely be severe and potentially irreversible’.

There's just too much at stake to let Woodside's Browse gas proposal go ahead.

24/08/2026

CCWA volunteers have been out Saving Scott Reef — one doorstep conversation at a time.

Woodside plans to drill up to 57 wells around one of Australia's most spectacular and important coral reefs.

We're aiming to survey 1,000 Perth residents by the end of the year, to show politicians where the community stands.

Join our next door knock on Saturday 29 August — and see the events page on our website for more upcoming dates.

For the sake of our marine life and our climate, we can't let this project go ahead.

Bring a friend or two, or come and meet some new ones. All training provided on the day. We'll get our steps in, enjoy the sunshine and grab a coffee afterwards.

15/08/2026

"It's just right off our coastline — and I think more WA people need to know about it." 🪸

Meet some of the volunteers powering the Save Scott Reef campaign. Amanda, Gavin, Kira and Robert were among around 40 community members who came together on Tuesday night to help stop Woodside's Browse gas export proposal.

Between them they made phone calls to new supporters, wrote letters to MPs, painted banners, prepped yard signs and got stuck into data entry — the essential work that keeps a campaign growing.

Browse is one of the most climate-polluting fossil fuel proposals in Australia, and it threatens protected species like the green sea turtle and pygmy blue whale. It still has no state or federal government approvals — and there's a growing movement to stop it.

You don't need any experience to volunteer with CCWA — just sign up at the link in our bio.

Together, we can save Scott Reef 💪

Join us for the next Environment Matters forum on Thursday 27 August in Rockingham as we explore the future of Derbal Na...
14/08/2026

Join us for the next Environment Matters forum on Thursday 27 August in Rockingham as we explore the future of Derbal Nara/Cockburn Sound, a richly biodiverse place of deep cultural significance that is under increasing environmental pressure.

This public forum will bring together perspectives from the local community, First Nations custodians, environmental groups, and industry stakeholders to explore what is at stake for the Sound, the challenges it faces, and what is needed to protect its ecological, cultural, and social value into the future.

Swipe to meet our speakers ➡️

RSVP: https://www.ccwa.org.au/2026_environment_matters_2_cockburn_sound

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1186 Hay Street
West Perth, WA
6005

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