End Forest Mining Expansion

End Forest Mining Expansion

The Northern Jarrah Forests, (south of Perth/Boorloo) are some of the most beautiful, diverse and vulnerable forests on Earth but they are facing a major threat.

More than a century of logging and clearing have had major impacts on the Northern Jarrah Forests, their wildlife and waterways, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has recently found that they are one of a handful of Australian ecosystems at particular risk of collapse due to the drying and warming climate.

The native forest logging ban came into force in 2024 (which is massive progress for this area and the rest ...

The Northern Jarrah Forests, (south of Perth/Boorloo) are some of the most beautiful, diverse and vulnerable forests on Earth but they are facing a major threat.

More than a century of logging and clearing have had major impacts on the Northern Jarrah Forests, their wildlife and waterways, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has recently found that they are one of a handful of Australian ecosystems at particular risk of collapse due to the drying and warming climate.

The native forest logging ban came into force in 2024 (which is massive progress for this area and the rest of the South West’s forests) but another major threat to these forests must be addressed - Forest Mining Expansion.

Right now, both major bauxite mining companies, Alcoa and South32 are seeking huge expansions which would result in the clearing of tens of thousands of hectares of the Northern Jarrah Forests over the next fifteen years.

WAs unique plants and animals are facing multiple threats from a drying climate, industrialisation, urban sprawl and now mining in our forests. We cannot afford to lose any more forest and woodland habitat especially not in one of our last remaining biodiversity hotspots.

Use your voice and support to the campaign.

Now is the time to contact the federal Environment Minister to voice your concerns. Act now! 

endforestmining.org.au

Talking points

Before you call, read through the talking points below. You’ve got this!

  • If you call outside of office hours, you’ll go straight to voice message - leaving a message is great too.

  • Your call will reach one of Minister ministerial office staff members. They are used to getting these calls from constituents and usually just take a message. Ask them to please pass on your message to Minister Plibersek.  

  • Please be polite and respectful and remember to thank staff for their time.

Remember, the most persuasive calls are personalised and make an emotional connection. 

  • State your name and where you live.
  • I am outraged that the WA Minister for Environment, Reece Whitby, dismissed over 130 appeals calling for bauxite miner South32’s Worsley Mine Expansion to be rejected.
  • I urge the Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to make the final call and reject the expansion proposal in its entirety.
  • The Northern Jarrah Forests is a biodiversity hotspot, critical habitat, valuable recreation area and vital carbon store. We must protect it.
  • There is little over 50% left of the bio-region. What precious forests remain must be protected, not cleared and strip-mined. 
  • Thousands of hectares of critical habitat in the Northern Jarrah Forests.are proposed to be cleared and operations will result in direct and indirect impacts to Matters of National Environmental Significance (including the critically endangered Woylie and Western Ringtail Possum and the threatened Quindanning Spider Orchid.)
  • If approved, up to 3,855 hectares of native vegetation including 24 Black Cockatoo nesting trees will be cleared. We need to save this threatened species.
  • If approved, two new crossings will be built over the culturally significant Hotham River. Further, local hydrology will be impacted due to the abstraction of up to 900 ML/A of groundwater compacted by a drying climate. This has the potential to affect waterways including the culturally significant Hotham River.
  • We know that Jarrah forests cannot be rehabilitated. The WA EPA even states that the “success and effectiveness of the proponent’s rehabilitation program is yet to be determined” and “that with a drying climate, rehabilitation of forest to its former structure may not be possible”.
  • The project will also have a significant impact on climate (with nearly 58 million tonnes of scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions to be released over 15 years).
  • In the current drying climate and extinction crisis, we cannot afford to lose any more forest and woodland habitat
  • I ask that the Minister Plibersek to listen to the community and reject South32’s Worsley Mine Expansion to protect the Northern Jarrah Forests.

Email us at nature@ccwa.org.au if you get a response and we can help you work out your next steps.  

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Reject South32’s mine expansion and protect the Northern Jarrah Forests

Call the federal Minister for Environment Tanya Plibersek today and tell her you want South32's Worsley Mine Expansion rejected and the Northern Jarrah Forests protected. 

WA’s Minister for Environment, Reece Whitby, has officially approved South32’s Worsley Bauxite Mine Expansion in the Northern Jarrah Forests.

The decision dismisses over 130 appeals against the Environmental Protection Authority's (EPA) recommendation of conditional approval earlier this year. The recommended conditions are inadequate and cannot ensure the protection of Northern Jarrah Forest, threatened species, water and climate.

The Federal Minister for Environment, Tanya Plibersek, is the final decision-maker. The Minister has 30 business days to make her decision.

Time is of the essence. We need to act now.

Tell Minister Pibersek you want this forest-destroying and emissions-polluting project to be rejected.

You will need to enter your name, mobile and email to make the call.

After you have entered your details, you will receive a call to you mobile which will patch you through to the office of Minister Plibersek.

Talking points are provided adjacent.

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