Save the Great Brixton Wetlands

Save the Great Brixton Wetlands

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The Great Brixton Wetlands is a special place for Nyungar people and a global biodiversity hotspot in the City of Gosnells. It contains over five hundred plant species - including nearly thirty species which are carnivorous. This makes it one of the most biodiverse places on the Swan Coastal Plain.

Among the many rare species that live here are the Kaaraks, or Forest Red-tailed Black Cockatoos. The wetlands hold the fourth largest major roosting site in the Peel-Perth region, with more than three hundred birds sheltering here at night. But both their trees and their wetlands are under threat.

Despite having ...

The Great Brixton Wetlands is a special place for Nyungar people and a global biodiversity hotspot in the City of Gosnells. It contains over five hundred plant species - including nearly thirty species which are carnivorous. This makes it one of the most biodiverse places on the Swan Coastal Plain.

Among the many rare species that live here are the Kaaraks, or Forest Red-tailed Black Cockatoos. The wetlands hold the fourth largest major roosting site in the Peel-Perth region, with more than three hundred birds sheltering here at night. But both their trees and their wetlands are under threat.

Despite having no formal Public Environmental Review to understand its impacts on the wetlands, a clumsily designed industrial development has been given the go ahead. And it is already taking a terrible toll on our wildlife.

More than eight hectares of Marri trees, an important food source for the Kaaraks, have already been cleared against EPA advice. And now they're planning something even worse. The developer wants to chainsaw more than half the trees at the Kaaraks' roost site, and insert a drainage system that could dry out the wetlands and cause ecosystem collapse.

On top of this, a significant Aboriginal archaeological site with artefacts going back over five thousand years could be lost.

This destruction is totally unnecessary. Experts say that the project could be designed to have minimal impact, with an infiltration at source stormwater system that replenishes the wetlands, and 100m buffer zones to protect and knit the area together so that it could be turned into a continuous Regional Park from the Canning River to the Lesmurdie Falls.  

This would help protect the Kaaraks and allow many other vulnerable and threatened species to survive and thrive for many generations to come.

Please call on the WA Government to stop the destruction and save the Great Brixton Wetlands today.

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Sign the Petition!

Please call on the WA Government to stop the destruction and Save the Great Brixton Wetlands, a globally important biodiversity hotspot that provides a home to our Kaaraks (Forest Red-tailed Black Cockatoos) and many other threatened animals.

Dear WA Government,

The Great Brixton Wetlands is a special place for Nyungar people and a global biodiversity hotspot in the City of Gosnells. It contains over five hundred plant species - including nearly thirty species which are carnivorous. This makes it one of the most biodiverse places on the Swan Coastal Plain.

Among the many rare species that live here are the Kaaraks, or Forest Red-tailed Black Cockatoos. The wetlands hold the fourth largest major roosting site in the Peel-Perth region, with more than three hundred birds sheltering here at night.

But all of this is under threat from a poorly designed development with a drainage system which could dry out the wetland and cause ecosystem collapse.

I call on the WA Government to:

1. Stop the current destructive practises in the development
2. Instigate a full Public Environmental Review of the entire industrial area.
3. Use ‘infiltration at source’ stormwater systems that replenish the wetlands instead of ‘pit and pipe’ drainage which will destroy them
4. Protect Kaarak roost, heritage sites, threatened vegetation, and creek lines with 100m vegetation buffers
5. Create a Regional Park from Lesmurdie Falls to the Canning River