Save the Beeliar Wetlands
It's Not Too Late to Stop ROE 8!
Gather together on the shores of our precious Bibra Lake to send a loud and proud message to the state government. The days of covering wetlands with bitumen are gone. Building more roads only leads to more traffic, more pollution and more impacts on the health of our communities and environment.
Please join us in sending a message to the EPA and the State Government asking them to abandon their plans to destroy the beautiful Beeliar Wetlands with an expensive and unsustainable road to nowhere.
We will not allow our Beeliar Wetland to be destroyed by a major highway extension.
The Beeliar wetlands are one of the most significant cultural sites for Aboriginal people in the Southern Metropolitan region, they are home to endangered species such as the Carnabys Cockatoo, and the beautiful parklands are used by thousands of local people and visitors per year. Building a highway through this Regional Park would destroy the aesthetic, recreational, cultural and environmental values of the area forever, and simply move a traffic congestion problem from one place to another.
SPEAK OUT!
RALLY, Saturday 20th August 2011, 11am -1pm at Bibra Lake reserve, Progress Drive (between Hope Road and Gwilliam Drive)
Share your thoughts...
- Nadia Rasheed
20 - 08 - 2011 Thank you to the dedicated organisers of this cause and the event today into bringing us together.
The experiences that my daughter and I have had at North Lake, particuly and also Bibra Lake shows nature at its most precious and also most beautiful.To have this in our suburbs is unique, speacil and a defining example of what is significant, we value wetland systems, let them be as they were made, by nature.
- Damian
18 - 08 - 2011 One alternative plan is to put the highway on stilts - WOW.
Try a 6 lane highway over your house and see if it doesn’t affect your environment.
There is NO plan for a highway that does not include desecrating the last remaining FEW oasis of natural wonders in a desert of bitumen and BORING land developments.
The ROE highway extension? - getting us quicker from one boring place in Perth to another - while trashing a jewel that has been handed down to us largely (but not totally) undamaged - and we have the arrogance to decide we will not pass it on for our own convenience. The highway is just moving one problem (off Leach hwy and South st) onto a natural beauty.
Don’t fancy yourself lying in front of bulldozers? Then PLEASE come on Saturday AND write the EPA AND convince your friends/family to do the same.
- Karen Lee
16 - 08 - 2011 What State Government would put a highway exertion though a Regional Wetlands?
One with NO Environmental concerns & National Heritage comprehension!
Move the Fremantle Port to Kwinana Port simple
Say No to ROE 8
- nina ambrose
15 - 08 - 2011 Thank you to all the above people.I still remember the brilliant & articulate speech Lynn McClaren gave at the “No Roe” Rally on Oct 31 2009.Would a printed handout with points raised such as traffic congestion,raised by the opposition, refuted with printed alternate responses, be helpful.? Would a relocation of fremantle port to kwinana or henderson,mean container trucks would have no need to currently use Leach Hwy or the absurd Roe proposal?That is ,if the opposition give one argument,counter it with a better one.(on a chart simple enough for me to understand)
- Lee Fretz
14 - 08 - 2011 Well said Jennifer do you mind if I repost?
- Jennifer
04 - 08 - 2011 The beeliar wetlands are the most significant site of aboriginal heritage in Perth, south of the Swan River, Waugal, Firestick & Spirit Children Dreaming stories are integral to this site, and Roe 8 will desecrate this heritage.
As a Noongar I am very sad & disgusted at this couldn’t care less attitude of the importance of Beeliar wetlands & connecting bush lands by the government, we don’t want or need this desecration through sacred aboriginal heritage sites. These wetlands are connected, the timid bandicoots or quendas, the baby cygnets, lizards, frogs, turtles are just some who will not survive crossing Roe 8 we want these Beeliar wetlands kept & protected for all Australians forever & what little connecting Perth bush land left to be protected for not only when the black cockatoos fly in each year but the bush & the bandicoots & other native animals. This is vey important to our people, for our lifetime & the lifetime of our children & our childrens children. It must be protected for all Australian & the millions being wasted on this short piece of highway needs to be used for better things. Please stop this Roe 8 now.
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