Draft management plans released for comment

The Pilbara inshore islands nature reserves and proposed additions draft management plan has been made available by the Department of Biodiversity Conservation and Attractions for public comment.

The draft plan covers 174 islands, islets and rocks between Exmouth Gulf and Cape Preston that provide habitat for a variety of threatened species including turtles and birds.

You are invited to have your say on how the biodiversity, cultural and social values of the islands will be protected and conserved into the future.

Osprey nest, South Muiron Island | Credit: DBCA

You can access the draft plan, watch a short video about the values of the islands, and have your say via an online submission form at dbca.wa.gov.au/haveyoursay.

Also open for public comment is the Kalgulup Regional Park Draft Management Plan 2020.

This plan provides guidance for the management of 295 reserves and parcels of land located north and east of Bunbury along the foreshores of the Leschenault Estuary and Inlet and the Preston, Collie and Brunswick rivers, including the Leschenault Peninsula Conservation Park, and south of Bunbury from Preston River to the Ocean.

You are invited to have your say on how the regional park will be managed into the future.

Click here for the Kalgulup Regional Park Draft Management Plan 2020.

See a short video about some of the values of the islands here.