January 24th, 2012
If you’re after the latest news from the Kimberley skip this introduction and scroll down
Welcome to our website. Environs Kimberley (EK) is the only regional conservation group working on the ground in one of the world’s last wilderness areas. Our region’s natural habitats are facing unprecedented threats from too frequent fire, feral animals, weeds, broadscale land-clearing, dams and increasing industrialisation. Our mammals are disappearing.
Our innovative work with Indigenous Ranger Groups through the West Kimberley Nature Project is addressing some of these threats to rare and endangered Kimberley ecosystems (see here).
25,000km² of the Kimberley is being explored for coal, more than 120,000km² explored for shale gas (by the notorious method of ‘fracking’), more than 10,000km² for bauxite (Sydney’s urban area covers 1687km²). The region is also facing exploration for oil, iron ore, copper, diamonds, rare earths, lead, zinc and uranium.
James Price Point, 40km north of Broome on one of the world’s most pristine coastlines, is the proposed site for the largest gas processing plant in the world. If approved, it would open up the floodgates to industrialisation on a scale never seen before in northern Australia. (For more information go here)
We need your help to protect the Kimberley. You can contribute by becoming a member (click here) and taking an active role in our activities or, if you don’t have the time to take part, by making tax deductible monthly donations (click here). $30 a month goes a long way for us.
For latest news on the Kimberley see below