January 2013. BirdLife Australia (BirdLife
Partner) has joined an alliance of conservation groups calling on the West
Australian government to halt its plans to extend the State Barrier Fence.
Construction of the fence extension in the
Esperance region would create a largely continuous barrier that would run
through five bioregions from North of Geraldton to Cape Arid.
BirdLife Australia has many serious concerns
about this proposal, including concerns that the WA Government made a
commitment to build the fence prior to the completion of appropriate
socio-economic and environmental studies.
However our major concerns relate to the
potential ecological impacts of the fence, particularly where the fence will
cut through the Great Western Woodlands, separating 300,000 ha of contiguous
bush from the main woodland block.
BirdLife Australia Conservation Manager Jenny
Lau said that the fence may lead to the death of thousands of emus in migration
years, prevent dingo re-establishment and destroy at least 1000 hectares of
bushland.
At a time when most governments are working to
improve wildlife corridors, the WA government's plans to create a massive
wildlife barrier, deliberating fragmenting the world's largest remaining intact
temperate woodland, is both puzzling and disturbing.
Please help BirdLife
International Stop and Rethink the Fence by taking action now.
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