The fence may lead to the death of thousands of emus in migration years (Graeme Chapman).
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 us Stop and Rethink the Fence by taking action now.
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January 5th, 2013 at 6:44 pm
i ban all products from australia if the goverment not respect the anviroment
January 4th, 2013 at 6:55 am
They had the same catastrophe in Botswana, when a fence was supposed to keep wildebeest away from cattle, because it was thought the cattle would get hoof and mouth disease from the wild wildebeest. But the best way to protect cattle was through inoculation. But as a result of the fence, the wildebeest could not get to water, so thousands died.