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The Walker Group’s latest images for the controversial $1.4 billion Toondah Harbour development at Cleveland. Cassim Island, used as a roosting site by international migratory birds, is in the foreground.

Toondah Harbour project set to be rejected out of concern for birds, bay

The project – which would have seen the construction of thousands of apartments – has been found to pose an unacceptable risk to “rare, unique and important” wetlands.

  • Tony Moore

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Peatlands smouldering in south west WA.

Peat swamps in WA’s south were deemed ‘endangered’. They’re still smouldering after a prescribed burn

Patches of subsurface peat in endangered swamps north of Denmark are still smouldering weeks after a WA government department set fire to the area as part of a prescribed burn.

  • Victoria Laurie
Lake MacLeod is a salt lake near the WA coastal town of Carnarvon.

WA wetlands protection list untouched for 21 years as development soars

Scientists identified more than 30 places for Ramsar status in 1999, but only three have been added.

  • Peter de Kruijff

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