Barrow Island is the second largest island in Western Australia, and is one of Australia’s oldest nature reserves. But this remarkable place, described as Australia’s ‘Galapagos’ because of its rare and endangered species, now faces unprecedented threats.
Take action to now to protect Barrow Island
In December 2006, the Western Australian Government overruled the advice of its own Environmental Protection Authority and approved the development on the island of a huge gas plant by the energy companies, Chevron, Shell and ExxonMobil.
Risks to wildlife from the massive project include the introduction of invasive species and diseases in the thousands of tonnes of material and equipment needed to build the plant. The development would also require the construction of a port in a pristine tropical area previously earmarked for inclusion in the surrounding marine park and the dredging of deep shipping channels in coral reef habitat.
Barrow Island is a sanctuary for marsupials like the burrowing bettong (above), the golden bandicoot and many other threatened and endemic species.
Tell them to halt plans to locate the gas plant on the island and instead look to alternative mainland locations.
(Via WWF Passport)
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