Gumby News - December 2004 (No.54)

The
Ningaloo
is a coral reef
and limestone cape
of astonishing biodiversity
on the west coast of Australia.

The SAVE NINGALOO CAMPAIGN is
the focus of community conservation
efforts to protect this special place.

With the support of tens of thousands
of people from around the world
the campaign stopped a large
marina resort from being
built in 2003.

The Campaign now strives to see
these ecological values maintained
while allowing for sustainable levels
of human visitation to the region.

NEWSFLASH
WA Govt. increases Ningaloo Sanctuary Protection from 10 to 34%

People power and science deliver right formula for Ningaloo




Ningaloo Reef - loved to death?

Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia

Last year many Gumby Lock readers helped rescue Ningaloo Reef from a massive marina-resort.

We're contacting you again to let you know that the reef is still in serious danger, and needs your help.

You now have the opportunity to increase the overall size of the Ningaloo Marine Park and secure more protected areas within it and help keep the Reef in its natural state.

Through our quick and easy automated letter, please contact the Premier of Western Australia to let him know that you want his government to:

increase areas of full protection [sanctuary zones] across the whole park to between 30 and 50% of its area, and,
follow through on its commitment to extend the Ningaloo Marine Park to the north and the south to encompass the whole reef.

We need you to let the Western Australian Premier, Dr Gallop, know that you support these increases, and expect a strong and precautionary approach to the management of Ningaloo Reef in the future. These changes can be adopted in the new Ningaloo Reef Management Plan, which is currently in review. Your automated letter is a submission to this review.

Our choices now, and your action in the next few minutes, will determine whether our children inherit a healthy Ningaloo Reef. Thank you for taking action at this important time.

"The worldwide decline in coral reefs calls for an urgent reassessment of current management practices … the rate of establishment and size of No Take Areas [sanctuary zones]a; needs to be hugely increased."
Nature (Journal) - June 2004

Tim Winton, writer and Ningaloo Reef supporter

Most people I speak to feel the same way when it comes to the ocean, that we are the custodians of a finite resource, not heirs to an endless entitlement without responsibility.
Tim Winton

The call for precaution in the way we manage Ningaloo Reef is the ultimate No Brainer! If the scientists say 30-50% in sanctuary, then that is what we must have.
Luc Longley

Send letter now and help save Ningaloo Reef

The Save Ningaloo Campaign

The Wilderness Society WA
City West Lotteries House,
2 Delhi St,
West Perth WA 6005
Phone: (08) 9420 7255
Fax: (08) 9420 7256
Email: ningaloo@iinet.net.au