West Australian Forest Alliance
Encyclopedia
The West Australian Forest Alliance is an organisation made up of a number of West Australian environmental activist groups—concerned with the destruction of Old Growth Forest
s in the South West region.
It is a successor to and includes membership of the earlier groups the Campaign to Save Native Forests
, South West Forests Defence Foundation
, Great Walk Networking
, and other member groups of the Conservation Council of Western Australia
Old growth forest
An old-growth forest is a forest that has attained great age , and thereby exhibits unique ecological features. An old growth forest has also usually reached a climax community...
s in the South West region.
It is a successor to and includes membership of the earlier groups the Campaign to Save Native Forests
Campaign to Save Native Forests
The Campaign to Save Native Forests was the name of a grassroots organisation which grew from a campaign started in Perth, Western Australia, in 1975, as a response to the development of a woodchipping industry in the south-west Jarrah and Karri forests of Western Australia...
, South West Forests Defence Foundation
South West Forests Defence Foundation
South West Forests Defence Foundation is a group that has been involved with three decades of involvement with the conservation of the Jarrah and Karri forests of the South West region of Western Australia....
, Great Walk Networking
Great Walk Networking
Great Walk Networking is a bushwalking community in Western Australia. The Great Walk started in 1988 as a protest walk from Denmark to Parliament House in Perth, to raise awareness of logging in Western Australia's old growth forests....
, and other member groups of the Conservation Council of Western Australia
Conservation Council of Western Australia
The Conservation Council of Western Australia is the umbrella body for conservation groups and organisations in Western Australia. It has been the co-ordinator, publisher and guiding body for issues of woodchipping in the South West of Western Australia, the logging of old growth forests, as well...
Affiliated groups
As found on the WAFA website - (not all of the groups listed were still currently active in 2006).- Augusta Margaret River Friends of the Forest
- Australian Conservation FoundationAustralian Conservation FoundationThe Australian Conservation Foundation is an Australian non-profit, community-based environmental organisation focused on advocacy, policy research and community outreach.-History:...
- Balingup Friends of the Forest
- Blackwood Environment Society
- Bridgetown-Greenbushes Friends of the Forest ·
- Busselton Dunsborough Environment Centre
- Busselton Peace and Environment Group
- Collie Conservation Group
- Conservation Council of WAConservation Council of Western AustraliaThe Conservation Council of Western Australia is the umbrella body for conservation groups and organisations in Western Australia. It has been the co-ordinator, publisher and guiding body for issues of woodchipping in the South West of Western Australia, the logging of old growth forests, as well...
- Darlington Adopt-A-Block
- Denmark Conservation Society
- Denmark Environment Centre
- D'Entrecasteaux Coalition
- Doctors for the Preservation of Old Growth Forest
- Earth
- Friends of the Blackwood Valley
- Friends of Giblett
- Friends of Jane
- Friends of Kingston
- Friends of the Tuart Forest
- Grassroots Activist Forest Alliance
- Greater Beedelup National Park Society
- Great Walk NetworkingGreat Walk NetworkingGreat Walk Networking is a bushwalking community in Western Australia. The Great Walk started in 1988 as a protest walk from Denmark to Parliament House in Perth, to raise awareness of logging in Western Australia's old growth forests....
- Leeuwin Conservation Group
- Margaret River Environment Centre
- South Coast Environment Group
- South West Environment Centre ·
- South West Forests Defence Foundation
- The Wilderness Society of WA
- Warren Environment Group
Newsletter
- The Real forest news. Perth, W.A. : Western Australian Forest Alliance, 1992-1995. Ed. 1 (Dec. 1992)-ed. 6 (Feb. 1995).
- Forest campaign bulletin. Perth, W.A. : Western Australian Forest Alliance, 1994-
- Western Australian forest times. Perth, W.A. : Western Australian Forest Alliance, 1999 irregular