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4th WA coastal conference

Western Australia's coastline stretches 27 000 kilometres. It is a massive and much loved coastline and each town along it requires a special coastal management plan.

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The impact of climate change on our coastline

The intensity of weather events and the rising sea level are two of the most important challenges for the future of Australia's coastline.

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Indigenous concerns about the future of WA's coastline

The Roebuck Bay working group from WA's Kimberley is concerned that not enough thought is given to how our coastline will look in 40 or 50 years.

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Walk through the valley of the giants

One of the main attractions in the Denmark area is the suspended tree top walk through the Valley of the Giants.

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Art to bee sure

Scottish artist Emma Herman-Smith has been spraying pictures of bees all about the place in WA - from Mount Melville to Wave Rock to the sign to the Kalgoorlie Super Pit.

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Flora Friend: Peppermint tree

The Western Australian peppermint tree (Agonis flexuose) is a dark leafed tree which exudes a beautiful pepperminty smell. Each week in 'Flora Friend or Foe' Sylvia Leighton talks to ABC presenter...

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Wood you believe it? The world's largest forest is here

In case you didn't know, Thursday 5 June was World Environment Day. So, it's probably a good day to reveal that WA is home to the largest and healthiest temperate woodlands left on the planet.

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Protecting wildlife after the bushfires

The public is being asked to help save wildlife affected by the Victoria's recent bushfires.

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Profile- Annette Henderson

Few would have had the opportunity to live in a remote mining camp near the Congolese border nor would many have had the chance to meet great apes and care for a baby gorilla first hand.

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How to see a WGP

How do you track parrots that hardly anyone's ever seen?

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Road map leads to conservation

A new map of the Wheatbelt will mean more environmental conservation...

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A local icon - the Wagin Banksia

The Wagin community already keeps an eye on a rare animal, now they're looking after an endangered plant too.

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Endangered phascogale

Former farmers Mel Bristow and Brian Price are dedicating their retirement to saving the endangered red-tailed phascogale.

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Greens call for action against dieback

Greens Senator Rachel Siewert says not enough is being done to tackle the plant disease dieback on Western Australia's south coast.

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The story of our endangered Banksias on National Threatened Species Day

The beautiful Banksia plant is one of the Great Southern's most treasured icons, but did you know that some local Banksia species are endangered?

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Potoroos thrive on island home

Bald Island located 1.5 kilometres off the South Coast just east of Albany is proving to be a home in the sun for the critically endangered Gilbert's Potoroo as the Department of the Environment's...

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WA Govt warned to rethink national park walk trail

The Western Australian Labor Party says it is time the State Government backed down from plans to build a 45 kilometre walk trail through the Fitzgerald River National Park.

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Baby humpback whale dies on South Coast beach

A one day old Humpback whale calf came ashore to die last week on a beach in Bremer Bay. Conservation officers say that as the population of whales recover from the effects of whaling, numbers of the...

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From parking fees to planting trees

The seemingly ever-increasing number of cars in the peak hour crawl in and out of Perth is one of the most visible indicators of the city's growth.

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Funds to tackle wattle infestations

The Wilson Inlet Catchment Committee has been allocated state funding for conservation work in the Great Southern.

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