The Western Australian Forest Alliance (also known as WAFA) is an organisation made up of a number of Western Australian environmental activist groups concerned with the destruction of old-growth forests in the South West region.
It has published a range of guides, fact sheets, posters and documents. 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.
Advocacy and campaigning by WAFA and its members played a major role in the Western Australian government deciding to end the commercial logging of native forests from 2024 onwards.
It is one of the leading organisations in the End Forest Mining alliance, a campaign to end bauxite mining in Western Australia's Northern Jarrah Forest.
Affiliated groups
The WAFA lists the following member groups (as of May 2023):
- Albany Community Environment Centre
- Balingup Friends of the Forest
- Barrabup Conservation Group
- Blackwood Environment Group
- Bridgetown-Greenbushes Friends of the Forest
- Busselton Dunsborough Environment Centre
- Conservation Council of Western Australia
- Denmark Environment Centre
- Dwellingup Discovery Forest Defenders
- Friends of the Earth WA
- Friends of Gelorup Corridor
- Friends of the Greater Kingston Forest
- Friends of Porongurup Ranges
- Great Walk Network
- Greater Beedelup National Park Society
- Jarrahdale Forest Protectors
- Margaret River Regional Environment Centre
- Nannas For Native Forests
- Peel Preservation Group
- Quinninup Environmental Documenting
- South Coast Environment Group
- South West Environment Centre
- South-West Forest Defence Foundation
- Stop the Forest Losses
- Warren Environment Group
- Wilderness Society WA
See also
Newsletter
- The Real forest news. Perth, W.A. : Western Australian Forest Alliance, 1992âÂÂ1995. 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
References
Sources
- Crawford, Patricia, and Crawford, Ian (2003) Contested country : a history of the Northcliffe area, Western Australia. Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press. "The Charles and Joy Stapes South West Region Publications Fund"
- Lines, William J. (2006) Patriots : defending Australia's natural heritage St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2006.
- Schultz, Beth (1997) Giblett Block. â W.A. Forest Alliance outlines the significance of this old growth forest and reasons for its preservation. Great walk news July 1997, pp. 1âÂÂ3
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